Baby Pacifiers (shower Favors)

This idea is so cute it should get five stars but I found that there is a problem with the recipe. It is definately necessary to use royal icing. Otherwise, it takes way too long to dry!! I had to recruit my husband to help me hold them while they dried because I didn't use the royal icing. Hopefully everyone else will take the other reviewer's advice, it makes it a ton easier.

I bought the Jelly Belly Smoothies jelly beans, and used all of the peachish colored ones for the nipples. They looked almost identical to authentic pacifiers! I made up a batch of Royal Icing instead of the tube kind, and they held together perfectly. Thank you for posting the recipe here, at my favorite recipe search site!

So cute! I used these for on top of cupcakes for my baby shower

Cute! Like another reviewer, I skipped the ribbons and used these to top cupcakes for a baby shower. Since the expectant mother didn't know the gender of her baby, I made half of them with pink Jelly Bellies and half with blue, tinting the cupcake icing accordingly. I used Sweet Mint Lifesavers--two 6.25-ounce bags yielded 50 pacifiers. I purchased a bottle of Wilton cookie icing, which came in a bottle much like a glue bottle; it made a quick job of attaching the parts and dried so that the parts were well secured. I attached the Lifesavers together first, and after allowing them time to dry, propped them in a way that made it easy to attach the jelly beans to the other side and allow them to dry upright. They were a big hit--thanks for sharing this fun recipe!

Just made these for a baby shower I was a hostess for. Some frustration in the beginning! I definitely suggest using the ROYAL icing that dries up very hard and makes a pacifier that is completely edible since guests seem to love to eat these. We used a stiff decorator's icing first,by mistake and it wouldn't set up hard enough to be able to handle these to arrange on trays. Finally realized I didn't have the Royal icing that sets up so hard. I found the meringue mix for it at the craft store and mixed it with water and powdered sugar. I used a tiny pencil size paint brush and just brushed the thin icing on. I did the two lifesavers first then 'glued' the jelly bean in the hole with the icing and set them up in a mini muffin pan (two to a hole) to dry. I tied small 1/4" gingham ribbon in pink, blue, yellow, green and purple on the handles to match the jelly beans. I put them on a glass pedestal cake plate on the sign in table with the flower arrangement and they looked so adorable. To my surprise many guests took one when signing in and when I looked out during the shower...I saw many ladies sitting there sucking their pacifiers!! It was a sight and good picture op. Out of the 30 my daughter and I made there were none left. The kids really loved eating them, too. I used the new Sweet Mint flavored life savers, picked gingham ribbon to match our theme and went to Target where you could buy jelly beans in individual colors. Too cute.