I want to add a surprise to kids mini cakes? Any safe idea?!
Answers: I asked an earlier question about baking mini heart shaped cakes for my girls B-day treats at Kindergarten. I think if would be fun to be able to put some sort of safe toy/candy surprise inside. Any ideas? Thanks!
what about gummy worms?
A toy may not be safe. How about a spoon full of peanut butter inside? It gets nice and warm and guey when you bake it.
I wouldn't put anything in the mini cakes, but maybe put little surprises under each one...either a dime (quarter, whatever) or stickers, etc so when the child selects his mini cake he finds a surprise underneath the cake. That way you also have no worries about them choking on something that shouldn't be in a cake.
One of those mini candy bars ( like snickers or a 3 muskateers) bakes up oooey and gooey inside a cupcake........I like the peanut butter Idea too, but just make sure there are no allergies to nuts
small candy... or nothing you dont want them choking and you getting sued... please pick me... :)
this is tricky since every kid eats at there own pace you might want to fill the mini cakes with a flavored frosting. and then put candies on top. You could put a little cake topper on top of the cake even tho your looking to do something inside the cake. Kids are easy to please when it comes to giving them sugar.
what surprise?
Small toys hidden in childrens cakes.....sounds like a recipe for a choking disaster!
Try something that would be healthy for them like fruit...
Can you imagine the horror if one of those children bit into the candy/toy surprise and started choking!
Please do not do this. As a mother, for my child, I would prefer a simple cupcake with icing for a treat. Nothing fancy.
I know also, as a mother, that we tend to want to do things to make things extra cute for the class, but to be honest... we do it for our own peers... teachers other parents etc. The kids don't care how fancy the treat is, just that they are getting a treat at all.
If you must... put together a little goody bag - separate from the little cakes. You can put little candies and toys in there.
why not make those little butterfly cupcakes.
you cook cupcakes/little johnny cakes or whatever you like to call them and when they cool you cut a little circle of cake out of the top. cut that circle in half for two wings, fill the well with your choice of filling and stick the wings in.
mum used to make them at my birthday parties with jam and whipped cream in the well and sifted icing sugar on top and they were my absolute fav. they look real nice when it is chocolate cake.
you can even fill the well with coloured or chocolate butter icing/frosting, mock cream, milk pudding, mousse, "cheesecake" (tin of condensed milk, tub of cream cheese, squeeze of lemon juice mixed together quickly before it gets too warm), flavoured icecream.....
good luck and have fun with it