The kids love baking cakes especially the type that involve lots of decorating. Our Halloween cupcakes certainly did.
I actually won a halloween edition packet of Renshaw my bakes modelling icing in a retweet competition last week, So, I had no excuse but to get baking with the kids.
We used the Renshaw My Bakes Icing to model a number of spooky cupcake toppers. The pack consists of black, white, orange and purple (though green would have been better than the purple, it was an excellent kit all the same)!
My very creative 9 year old daughter Alice-Sara made a fantastic pumpkin with a black and white snake wrapped around it…
Fantastic, wouldn’t you agree?
Harley the toddler is the biggest baking fan ever and at 2 years old his already displaying some great skills in the kitchen…
What We Used…
We started off with your everyday sponge mix ingredients and just added some spooky green food colouring…
60g caster sugar
60g brown sugar
125g self raising flour
2 eggs
220g butter
10g white chocolate chips
10g mike chocolate chips
5 splashes of green food colouring
Everything was mixed together with the chocolate chips and food colouring going in last.
Once complete we spooned the mixture into some cake cases. Note, we doubled these up as to keep them strong. This was because we added an reasonable amount of mixture to each case so they would be big enough for us to cut through the middle.
We let these bake in a Pre-heated over gas mark 5 for around 15-20 minutes.
Decoration…
The decorated of our spooky cupcakes were made up from…
Renshaw My Bakes Halloween Modelling Kit
Candy Worms
225g Icing Sugar
Green Food Colouring
Black Food Colouring
Harley did an awesome job at mixing all the icing where Alice did fantastic with her spooky toppers.
Once the cakes were baked and cooled I sliced them in half covering both in green or black icing. I then sandwiched them together before adding our decorations and a sprinkle of icing sugar to finish.
We covered them and sat them in the fridge for a while.
Personally I think they looked better without the sprinkled icing sugar, but this was the children’s project after all and what they say goes!
Checkout the inside… These were some chunky cupcakes that should only be eaten on a full moon (that is unless you are aiming to put your kids on a sugar high everyday).
I’m linking this post to the appliance online competition “Cakes Win Prizes” and linky.
I’d also like to thank appliances online for the cake jar that I sadly smashed:( I’m sure it would have made some perfect cakes.
Mummy Of Many Talents 
Very lovely bakes!
Thank u