Bakers of Mumsnet help me make lego cupcakes please

[AmpleBosom]

I'm planning to make around 35 cupcakes for my son's 5th birthday party so that all the kids can take one away.

I've got a lego brick silicone mould but not sure if i should use white chocolate which i would add colourant to or some kind of icing. Has anyone got any ideas of how i would do this??

Also any good basic cupcake recipes and frosting/icing/whatever i'm supposed to use would be fabulous as well

Thanks

If you use melted white chocolate, you can't add normal liquid food colouring because the water content would seize it up. I made cake pops recently and used edible coloured dust added to melted white chocolate buttons to create pink and blue coatings. I sourced the dust from here.

If you go the icing route instead, for a professional finish, coloured sugarpaste is better than trying to mix food colouring in to icing, but it depends what sort of thing you are after. If you want more a glace icing, then food coluring may be the way to go.

Anyhow, I'm no expert, there will be one along soon I expect with a madeira recipe hopefully, that seems to be the most suitable mix for the cake.

Sounds great, good luck!

If you are using ready to roll icing you can buy it pre coloured. If you want the strong bold colours of lego I think it would be best to buy it pre coloured as even adding gels in the quantity you need for that deep colour can make the icing sticky. But don't forget that you need to put on a thin layer of butter icing on the cake first to make it 'stick'. With the lego shape that might get a bit tricky but you might be able to get away with the tops of the nubby bits (don't know if they have a technical name) and inbetween, but not the sides of the nubbs. Good luck, your son will be proud of you!

There are chocolate type things called melts that are pre coloured in bags of buttons for melting, they would work for your mould

www.cakescookiesandcraftsshop.co.uk/acatalog/Candy-Melts.html

Basic sponge:
Equal weights flour, sugar, unsalted butter, eggs.
Beat sugar and eggs in mixer until pale and doubled in volume. Melt butter and stir in, then sift in flour and fold in (try not to knock too much air out).

Not exactly sure how much you would need for 35 cupcakes...maybe 500g of each?

Really easy peasy icing is lemon juice and icing sugar, can add a drop of water so it pours more easily. Also food colouring if you like.

I find white chocolate quite tricky to work with but if you really want chocolate, do 100g chocolate to 175g cream. Chop white choc into small pieces and place in a bowl. Bring cream to the boil then pour over chocolate and stir until smooth. Can add colouring to this too, needs to go in the cream.

Dark chocolate is easy to work with but not so popular with the kids. 120g chocolate to 110g butter, melted together and mixed really well. It goes on easily (it's quite thin when warm) and won't disguise the nobbles on the top of your lego cakes like the other kinds of icing might.

Good luck!

Hang on sorry, it's not 35 lego cakes is it, it's one big lego cake and 35 cupcakes.

If that's the case, the white choc would be ok. I was thinking it would be too thick for little lego cakes.

I don't have a frosting recipe but if I was making one up I'd probably whip up room temperature unsalted butter, icing sugar and food colouring in a kenwood until fluffy. It could turn out shite though so you're probably best googling it.

Thanks for all your ideas

Yes i'm thinking one small lego cake with 35 cupcakes with a lego pice on the top - made out of coloured chocolate or icing.

I'm thinking chocolate might be easier but then maybe not