You will need:
(makes approx 9 cupcakes)
Cakes:
150g unsalted butter
150g caster sugar
3 eggs
150g self raising flour, sifted
1 tsp vanilla essence
Topping:
1 pack of jelly – any flavour
food colourings e.g. blue, red and yellow
150g unsalted butter
300g icing sugar, sifted
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp milk
Method
Mega Block Jellies
Choose some mega blocks and sterilise them (I put mine in my dishwasher!)
Prepare your jelly, I used orange for mine. I then divided my jelly into 4 cups and added some food colouring to three of them to make blue, red and green
Then I simply poured the jelly liquid into the mega block moulds and put into the fridge to set for a couple of hours.
Meanwhile make your
Cakes:
Pre-heat the oven to 160oC (fan) / 180oC
Place the sugar and butter in a bowl and beat together until pale and creamy
Add the eggs, vanilla essence and flour and continue to mix together until everything is combined
Divide between the paper cake cases and then put in the oven for 20-25 minutes until cooked right through
While your cakes are cooling make your
Buttercream
place your butter (room temperature) into a bowl and beat well until light and fluffy
gradually add the icing sugar until the mixture becomes light and creamy
add the vanilla and milk to make the buttercream to make a nice creamy consistency (not too runny or thick)
Then
Decorate
using a piping bag decorate each cup cake with the buttercream
remove your jellies from their moulds – this is quite fiddly to do so its aswell I made a few spare!
then simply top each cupcake with a jelly mega block
a bit of cup cake fun for kids of all ages !!
(best to keep cakes in fridge until you need them so as to keep the jellies intact)
(best to keep cakes in fridge until you need them so as to keep the jellies intact)
Now its your turn!!
For this months I LOVE CAKE the theme is
FUN
I think that covers a wide choice of cake making and baking ideas!!
As its the school holidays, maybe your children could make some fun cakes or bakes and link up??
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Thank you xx
Thank you xx
love these, well done 🙂
I love the idea and they certainly are fun! Made a note to join in as I have some cake plans ahead!
that would be fab, thank you (and for my RT ) x
Will def join in 🙂
They look fab x
Wow, they look awesome, definitely on my to do list now!
love this so so much, how excellent!
They look so cool, I’d love to try these, but The Boy hates jelly! I *will*, *WILL* do this this month
make chocolate ones instead???
Great stuff, I’m doing a Lego party for my little boy in a couple of weeks, I did wonder is Mega Blocks would work as jelly molds, you just proved it!
Wow, Jenny they are awesome!
What a fab idea, I am making a Lego themed birthday cake for my son this week so will try and remember to link up
toys have many uses, what a brilliant idea
Thank you Elaine x
Ooooh that sounds immense! Please do link up as I would live to see your creation x
Thanks Emma x
Thank you. They do work . You can buy Lego mould trays like ice cubes from Amazon if this is of use to you x
Thank you x
Thanks lovely x
I did it! Just in the nick of time!