This week focuses on insects and we have:
Watched Antz
Baked Worm Covered Cupcakes
Created Butterfly Stone Pets
Watched Antz
Baked Worm Covered Cupcakes
Created Butterfly Stone Pets
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Worm Covered Cupcakes
These delicious biscuit and sweet covered cupcakes are really simple to create and are ideal for themed parties and Halloween.
Ingredients
Cupcakes
2 eggs
4oz sugar
4oz self raising flour
4oz butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
Decoration
5 1/2oz butter
1lb 2oz icing sugar
45ml milk
5 1/2oz butter
1lb 2oz icing sugar
45ml milk
Oreo biscuits
Worm sweets
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
- Combine all of the cupcake ingredients (butter, eggs, flour, sugar and vanilla) together in a bowl to create you cake mixture
- Divide the mixture equally between 12 cupcake cases in a cupcake baking tray
- Cook for around 12-15 minutes until risen and golden
- Allow to cool
- Create your icing by mixing together the icing sugar, butter (softened) and milk in a bowl
- Apply to the cakes
- Crumble up the Oreo biscuits and sprinkle over the icing to look like mud
- Add your sweet worms on top
- Scoff!
Butterfly Stone Pets
You can read more about our Stone Pets and how to make them just here:
Antz MovieAnt worker, Z, has his heart set on Princess Bala and after swapping places with his soldier ant friend he finds himself on a wild adventure. He finally comes head to head with General Mandible who wants to liquidate the colony... will he save the day and his love?
If you have any Insect themed posts (crafts, recipes or activities) you can link them up below.
Next week the theme will be Owls.
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Find Me a Gift have kindly provided some insect themed goodies to giveaway; a Bug Safari Naturalist Kit and some Toy Bugs!
You can enter via the Rafflecopter entry form below.
The giveaway closes on 23rd July 2013.
Good luck!




