My second Baby Shower Favor

This quick and easy baby shower favor was a huge hit! Each place setting had a cute duckie martini with a tiny white and blue ribbon around the stem. The martini Recipe follows.

Duckie Martini

Ingredients:

• 12 Martini glasses 7 3/8" tall
• 12 Duckies - Ensure these are the kind that float right-side up
• 2 two pound bags of blue lavender scented bath salts
• 3 canisters of white sea salt
• 1 spool of teal blue ribbon
• 1 spool of white ribbon

Take-away kit:

• 1 pack of 13 medium sized gift bags
• 1 pack of mesh favor bags with a large mouth

Step One - Before the Baby Shower

Cut 12 lengths of each ribbon. Hold one white and blue ribbon back to back and tie around the stem of the martini glass. Repeat until all of the glasses are bedecked.

Mix the four pounds of blue bath salts and one canister of the sea salt together in a high quality gallon freezer bag - seriously, don't cheap out on the bag, 5 pounds of salt is heavy.

The purpose of adding the sea salt is to make the fancy bath salts spread further. You don't want to use anything besides sea salt and you don't want to use too much or it will be noticeable.

I triple-bagged the salt to make sure there was no chance the seal opened up. This may seem extreme, but again, you don’t want any to spill out on the way to the shower.

That's it for pre-setup!

Step Two - The Day of the Shower

Ideally you should fill the glasses away from the final tablescape, if your hands are shaky.

Put about 3/4 cup of the blue salt in each glass. Fill all of the glasses with the blue salt first, in case you have to shift it around a bit to fill them evenly. Pour the white salt as close to the edge of the martini glass, leaving a little nest for the duckie to sit in. Proudly display!

Step Three - Take Away!

Remove the duckie and pour the sand into the mesh bags. Tie them and place them in the gift bag. Pop in the duckie and martini glass. If you want to make your life easier, using quart sized freezer bags works even better because the mouth of the martini glass will fit right in, minimizing spill. You decide how fancy the take away bag needs to be on the inside.   :)