We’ve been baking a lot recently. Both my children love the process of baking and making food (and eating the results!) and as their current favourite book is The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson we made Gruffalo cupcakes.
How to make Gruffalo cupcakes
First of all we made a batch of delicious chocolate cupcakes.
When they were cool and covered with a gooey chocolate icing my 3 year old sat at the table with bowls of decorations. We talked about The Gruffalo and what we could use to make his eyes, nose, teeth and everything else.
He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.
We used flaked almonds, white marshmallows, chocolate buttons and orange and green tic tacs so there was plenty of choice. The toddler loved creating his own mini Gruffalo’s and made each one different. He got quite messy but enjoyed licking his fingers and sampling all the decorations almost as much as he enjoyed decorating the cakes.
Fortunately they weren’t too scary to eat. Little Sis just ate the decorations and icing and handed me back the cake, everyone else enjoyed our Gruffalo cupcakes!
What a great idea! My kids love the Gruffalo too and this would be something they’d really enjoy – thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Oh they look lovely
Everytime I make cakes they never seem to turn out right x
What fun cupcakes! I have always believe that getting kids involved in the cooking process encourages them to eat and try new things! x
I LOVE the idea of using tic tacs for the poisonous wart! Have pinned for later as we will definitely be doing these x
Such a great idea! My two love the gruffalo x
These are so cute and a lovely easy recipe to get the kids involved in 🙂
Wow, they are super cute
Love it Love it Love it! May have to make some at the weekend!!
These are so great – and tasty too! We love the Gruffalo 🙂
Very cool idea, and they look so simple too x
What a brilliant idea! Our toddler absolutely loves The Gruffalo too so we must give them a try 🙂
These are so cute – how could you eat one 😉
Oh yummy these look great and what fun to make too.
Too cute! I can’t wait till my baby is old enough to do things like this with! Baking is one of my fav activities!
Great idea – my kids adore the gruffalo
We are big Gruffalo fans, so these cakes are a great idea!
Fab idea, they look so yummy too.
What a fun activity! I especially love the poisonous wart tic-tac 😉
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They are BRILLIANT!! Pinned x