Jelly Mega Block Cupcakes

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)

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??

As usual the linky will stay open until the end of the month - please link up any old or new recipes and grab the badge too :)

I look forward to seeing your entries.

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