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Simplicity is the best
thing so just the bear's head will be made.
Preparation Time to make
the cake: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 20
minutes
Decorating time:
patience but not an art degree is required so
give yourself 30 minutes
You will need: 2 x
8in (20cm) round baking tins.
A Swiss roll
(jam and sponge if you make a sponge cake,
chocolate roll if you make a chocolate cake. You
will need to buy a generous sized one or the
ears will look a little sad!
Ingredients for cake
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Sponge
175g
unsalted butter
175g caster sugar
3
beaten eggs
175g self-raising flour
(50g
of cocoa powder if you are making a chocolate
cake. You may need a tbsp milk to soften the
mix)
Filling
3
tbsp strawberry jam (if making Victoria
sponge)
210g/7.5oz butter, softened,
420g/15oz icing sugar
(Cocoa powder if
making chocolate butter icing (50g) and add a
little milk to soften) |
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Method
Set the oven to 180C/gas
4. Lightly butter two sandwich tins, each with a
diameter of 20cm (8ins).
Cream together the
butter and sugar together until light and
fluffy, and then slowly add the beaten egg.
Fold in the sifted flour and spoon the
mixture into the prepared cake tins.
Bake
for 20 minutes. Leave to cool and then remove
from the tins.
When the cake has cooled fill
with either jam for sponge or butter icing for
chocolate cake.
Constructing the face
Cut 2 pieces off the Swiss
roll so that when it is on its side it is almost
the same height as the sponge round. Cut 1/3 off
the edge of the Swiss roll so that you have an
ear shape.
Either fix to sponge with
jam or butter icing to make ears.
Cover all of the cake with
butter icing including the sides. It can be
quite roughly done so that it is like fur. Cut
another round off the Swiss roll….about 2 cm
thick and place on top of sponge for the nose
(just below the centre). Cover that in butter
icing.
Get white choc buttons if you have
made choc butter icing and brown choc buttons if
you have done plain butter icing. Put one on the
raised nose part, two above for the eyes and a
couple in the ears
For the mouth buy the red
‘laces’ sweets and from the bottom of the nose
take it towards the edge of the cake and then
curl it to the right. Do the same again with
another piece but curl it to the left. You have
the mouth.
You now have your teddy cake.
If you still have some
Swiss roll left perhaps you could butter ice it,
put it next to the teddy face and put the
candles in
that. | |
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Savoury
wands
Cheddar cheese
Cocktail
sticks
1 baking potato cut along one side to
make firm base
Tin foil
Method
Cut cheese into ½ inch
widths and make stars using star shaped
cutter.
Insert cocktail stick in between the
points. Stick into a potato covered in silver
foil. | |
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Sausage and Beans
Fort
Cake
8 inch square chocolate cake
Chocolate butter icing
4 x individual
choc Swiss rolls
2 packs chocolate finger
biscuits
2 penguin biscuits
1 drinking
straw and sticky label (with child’s name on)
made into flag
Method
Cut the cake in half
horizontally. Sandwich the two halves together
with butter icing and cover with the rest of the
icing. Place the Swiss rolls at each corner and
place the chocolate fingers vertically along the
sides of the walls. On the fourth side leave a
gap in the centre for an entrance and put the
penguin biscuits vertically outwards as two open
gates. Put the straw ‘flag’ in the
centre. | |
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Croissant
Crabs
1 small croissant per
child
Red peppers
Tomato paste
Cream
cheese
Cheddar cheese
Currants
Method
Cut the croissants through
the middle. Cut the pepper into long strips and
then halve each strip across the middle. Mix a
little tomato paste with the cream cheese until
it is light pink. Cut wedges of cheese
5mmx2cmx7.5. Cut a v shape into one of the 2cm
sides.
Spread the cream cheese on the
croissants. Place 4 pepper legs out of each side
of the croissant and the v shaped cheese at the
ends of the croissants and the large claws. Put
the tops back on croissant. Use cheese paste to
stick on currant
eyes. | |
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Smoothies
For a
child’s Hollywood party make fruit Smoothies.
Adults may prefer something a little stronger
perhaps with the word cocktail in it!
Popcorn
Buy the
popcorn to microwave and then add salt, melted
butter or a toffee
sauce. | |
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Star Salad
1
large potato sliced thinly
2 slices edam
cheese
2 slices cooked ham
1 large carrot
thinly sliced
cucumber
1 lettuce
Method
Using small star cutter
cut out stars from the potato and steam for
about 7 minutes until tender. Using the same
cutter cut stars from the other ingredients and
arrange them on a shredded lettuce
base. | |
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Cheese
Shields
1 cheese slice per
person
1 slice of bread per person
Red and
green pepper cut into strips
Method
Cut each cheese slice into
4 and place on a piece of bread with pepper
strips between the quarters. Put under a hot
grill until the cheese bubbles. Cut the toast
into shield shapes (A small round cutter on
either side of the top centre will give the top
shape and then cut from the outer edge at the
top towards the bottom middle).
Medieval
Mead
Blackcurrant juice,
Hot
water,
Sultanas,
Glasses (or plastic
wine goblets)
Method
Mix the black current
juice with hot water. Put some sultanas in the
bottom of the glass and add the hot
juice. | |
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Fruit in
jelly
Packet of raspberry (blue)
jelly
Strawberries
Method
Make the jelly and put
into bowl. Put in frig to set. When almost set
take out and put halved pieces of strawberry all
over the top of the bowl. They should sink
slightly. (if necessary push the pieces into the
jelly so that they are submerged) Put back into
frig and set. | |
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Frogspawn
jelly
1 packet green jelly
Drop
of brown colouring
Packet of jelly tots. (Or
any small round fruit sweets)
Method
Make the jelly as
instructed on packet adding a small drop of
brown colouring.
Put into individual dishes
(or one large bowl) leaving 1/3 to use later.(do
not put this in the frig). Put bowl(s) into frig
to set. When almost set sprinkle on the sweets
and pour over the rest of the jelly. Put back in
frig to set completely.
Swamp
mud
Coke
Vanilla ice
cream
Glass of coke with scoop of ice
cream. | |
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Tank cake
8
in square chocolate cake
Chocolate butter
icing,
2 long strips liquorice,
Packet
of Rolos,
Pack of Smarties,
1 flake,
Chocolate Munchmallow
Method
Take a 5cm strip from the
side of the cake. Cut the front and back of the
cake at an angle to give the tank shape. Cover
with butter icing. Place the off cut in the
centre of the cake and cover with icing. Place
the munchmallow as the tank hatch, the liquorice
as caterpillar tracks and the Rolo’s as the
wheels of the caterpillar track raising the ones
at the ends of the cake to make it look like its
moving. Place Smarties as lights and the flake
as the gun coming out from the front end of the
off cut piece of cake.(cab) Decorate around the
base of the cab with more
Smarties. | |
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Volcanoes
2
egg whites
110g caster sugar
110g
desiccated coconut
Rice paper
Red
jam
Method
Preheat oven to 150C 200F,
gas mark 2
Whisk egg whites until stiff. Fold
in sugar and coconut. Put rice paper on baking
tray and spoon on the mixture in cone shapes.
Cook for 40 mins until crisp but not brown on
the outside and soft in the centre. Dent the top
and when cool put a blob of red jam in the
dent.
Old bones
2
spare ribs per child,
Bar-b-q sauce
(bought)
Put ribs under hot grill and
turn until brown and serve immediately with
sauce. | |
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Coconut island
cakes
110g soft margerine
110g
caster sugar
2 eggs
110g SR Flour
110g
desiccated coconut
1 tbsp water
Method
Pre heat oven to 200C,
400F, gas 6,
Cream together the fat and
sugar. Add eggs a little at a time. Add the
sieved flour, desiccated coconut and the water
if mix is too stiff. Bake in paper cases for 15
mins.
Icing
225g
icing sugar
2 tbsp warm water
Green
colouring
Method
Sift sugar into bowl and
add the water. Beat until smooth and thick
enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon. Add
green colouring in tiny drops until you like the
colour.
When cool decorate with green glace
icing. Put a parasol pick into each
cake. | |
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Bones of your
enemies
2 tbsp tom ketchup
2
tbsp brown sauce
1 tsp soy sauce
1tsp
honey
1 chicken drumstick per child
Small
Pitta breads
Lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes
1
egg beaten
Brown food colouring
Method
Mix ketchup, brown sauce
soy sauce and honey together. Make cuts in the
skin of the drumsticks and coat with the sauce.
Cook under grill until cooked (15mins+). Shred
the lettuce and slice the cucumber and tomatoes.
Mix the eggs and the brown food colouring
together and paint a skull and crossbones onto
the side of the pittas. Heat under the grill,
split open and fill with salad. Top with the
chicken and add tomato ketchup (for the gore
element).
Dead mans
fingers
25g butter
225g
chopped dates or sultanas
1 tbsp sugar
1
tbsp SR Flour
1 egg
Method
Pre heat the oven to 180C,
350F, gas 4
Melt the butter in a saucepan and
add all the other ingredients.
Press the
mixture into a 7” square or rectangular tin.
Cook for 30 minutes. When it has cooled slightly
cut into
fingers. | |
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Queen of Hearts
tarts
200g shortcrust pastry
(bought) or you can make your own
Red
jam
Method
Preheat oven to 200c 400f
gas 6
Roll out pastry and cut with circular
cutter. Place on greased indented baking tray
and prick bottom of each small pastry case. Fill
each with 1tsp jam and decorate with heart
shaped pieces of pastry. Bake for 12 mins until
pastry is golden brown.
Dips
If you have
card shape cutters then carrot can be cut into
shapes to dip. | |
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Pinwheel
sandwiches
Buy thin sliced bread
(white or brown or both) and cut off crusts.
Roll out with a rolling pin to make it as thin
as possible. Butter one side and place filling
on top.
Roll up the bread to make a Swiss
roll. Cover in cling film as tightly as you can
and put in the fridge. Just before serving take
off cling film and slice into bite sized
rounds.
Any filling that is reasonably smooth
is the simplest but other fillings can be used
if they are thinly sliced.
Swiss roll
Hula
hoops
Car cake
1 chocolate
shaped loaf cake
Chocolate butter icing
4
chocolate Munchmallows
Pack of
Smarties
Silver balls
Matchmakers
Method
Turn the cake upside down
and take two segments from either end of the
cake so that if it is turned over again you have
the body of the car in the centre with boot and
bonnet at either end. Cut two lengths about
2.5cm wide off the cut off segments and put onto
a cake board. Place the cake on the ‘axles’ and
fix on the four munchmallow wheels with icing,
where the axles are. Put a smartie on each
munchmallow as a hubcap. Decorate the car with
matchmakers to outline the doors and windows and
use red smarties for tail lights and yellow for
front lights. Use sliver balls to make the
bumpers and edging for windscreen and back
window. Place two candles horizontally into the
back of the cake as the exhaust. Place another
as the aerial on the side of the bonnet. The
rest can go on the
roof. | |
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Match cake
2
x 8ins square sponge cakes placed together on a
board to form an oblong
Green butter icing
(or apricot glaze and green glace icing.)
Small quantity of white glace icing
Method
Place cake on board and
coat the sides and top of cake with green icing
and smooth with palette knife. Using a fine
nozzle pipe white lines to make the playing area
and place goal posts in position. Place the
players on the cake. (Players
and goalposts
available from our shop)
(For the white line you
need to draw a rectangle 2.5 cm from edge. At
each end draw 2 rectangles one the width of the
goal post and one 1.5 cm larger inside it. A
line across the centre of the pitch and a circle
for the centre.) If you are not happy to pipe it
then buy fondant icing, roll it out thinly and
cut strips to make the white
lines. | |
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Jungle Fruit
salad
Find fruit in season and find
some exotic fruits such as kiwi, banana, mango,
guava, pineapple, grapes, along with apples and
oranges.
Peanuts | |
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Marshmallow
spiders
Small amount of glace
icing (see coconut islands in Luau parties but
omit green colouring)
Chocolate beans
(smartie type)
1 x pack liquorice
strips
Munchmallow biscuits (enough for one
per child)
Method
Use the glace icing to
glue the chocolate bean eyes and liquorice legs
to the marshmallow body.
Cheese
worms
225g puff pastry
(bought)
450g Cheddar cheese
Method
Pre heat oven to 220C,
425F, gas 7
Roll out the pastry in a long
strip until very thin. Grate cheese onto the
rolled pastry and fold it in ½. Roll it out
again. Grate on more cheese and fold again and
roll out once more. Cut into long worms and make
them a bit wiggly. Bake on a greased baking tray
for 5-10 minutes. Leave to cool before
moving.
Rolls
Place on a
rectangular dish in a long wiggly line like a
caterpillar. | |
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Cheese
Biscuits
100g butter
100g
flour
100g cheese
Fennel seeds
Cayenne
Caraway seeds, poppy seeds, cumin
seeds, paprika (optional alternative
toppings)
For the egg
wash:
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp
water
Method
- Place the butter, cheese
and flour into a food processor and whiz until
the mixture forms a smooth dough.
- Remove the dough from the
processor and form it into a long log shape,
with a diameter of about 5cm. Wrap the log up
tightly in cling film and refrigerate for 30
minutes.
- When you are ready to
cook the biscuits, set the oven to 190°C/gas 5
and line two baking trays with baking parchment.
Unwrap the log and cut it into thin slices. For
thin, crispy biscuits, slice them as thinly as
possible. Lay the biscuits on the baking trays.
- Make an egg wash by
mixing the egg yolk with one tablespoon of
water. Brush the egg wash over the biscuits to
glaze them. Top the biscuits with some fennel
seeds and cayenne, or use any combination of
caraway seeds, poppy seeds, cumin seeds, or
paprika.
- Bake for 4-5 minutes,
depending on the thickness of the biscuits,
until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to
cool and store in an airtight tin.
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French
Toasties
2 Eggs
½ cup of apple
juice or milk
½ teaspoon vanilla
Method
Beat together the two eggs
vanilla and apple juice or milk.
Pour mixture
on small baking sheet/or shallow baking dish.
Tear 2-3 pieces of whole grain bread into pieces
or sticks. Place pieces in the mixture and wait
until they completely soak up the liquid.
Cook thoroughly on stove top in a greased or
oil-sprayed pan so none of the egg remains raw.
Serve immediately.
Fun Variation:
Instead of tearing the bread into sticks or
chunks, use mini-cookie cutters to cut shapes
out of the
bread. | |
