Ingredients were easy to get hold of.. all that was needed to deocrate them was blue food colouring, desicated coconut (which I found in Tesco), white chocolate buttons, black icing or an icing pen and cookies (I used maryland cookies)
I used a basic vanilla cupcake recipe for the cakes themselves.. but it could be adapted to chocolate ones or whatever you fancy really!
To decorate I made a bowl of blue butter icing (stork marg + icing sugar+ blue food colouring) and I coated each cake in this. Then I put desicated coconut into a freezer bag and added a few drops of blue food colouring, sealed the bag and shook it until the coconut absorbed the blue colour. I then poured the dyed coconut into a bowl and I dipped all the cakes into it until they were coated. It is at this stage that the mouth needs to be made. I used a sharp knife and cut a section out of the cake in the shape of a mouth, deep enough to fit half a cookie. I removed the spare sponge and filled the space with a cookie. I them topped each cake with two white chocolate buttons to imitate eyeballs and used a black icing pen to make pupils.
And this was the result....
I took these cakes into work and my collegues loved them!! And best of all they all knew who the character was straight away... Priceless!
Post me a few when you make your next batch =)
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