Our local cinema is great with fundraising! The most popular movies are premiered at a party to raise funds for assorted local groups and schools. Our Gymnastics club scored a double premier of TinkerBell & the NeverBeast and Cinderella. At intermission there was a TInkerBell Tea Party. I thought that was the perfect excuse to do a spot of baking!
These cute little toadstool cakes were a cinch to make.
Basic vanilla sponge
Removed from silicon baking mould.
I used a mini cutter to give a straighter edge to the base
Like so
And trimmed with a knife.
Giving a more toadstool look. In the end I think I gave up as these were so small you couldn't really tell, but in a muffin size I would recommend trimming. Or you could fill your moulds a little more so the mixture naturally overflows in the cooking process.
Add some bright red buttercream icing and some mini marshmallows, et voila!
I also made some sushi bites with nori cuttings.
I was quite proud of my Tinkerbells, what do you think? I think the hardest part was searching for the perfect image to cut.
The rice bites were made using
this set of rice moulds.
This was regular rice cooked so it was a little stickier than usual. Some of these bites were plain, others were filled with pre-marinated teriyaki chicken. I love having a skewer or two on hand, they are the perfect size for a few sushi rolls.
Some peas helped to complete Gruff.
Being that it was a double movie premier (and I've always wanted to try) I also made some high-heel cakes.
Mini patty cake/cup cakes with buttercream icing then decorated with a wafer biscuit and a Rondoletti stick held in place with a little more icing.
So simple!
For the Gruff inspired ones I used some black chocolate melts with chocolate icing and topped each with a green M&M. I also used two toned wafer fingers for the heel.
I think my melts were heat affected and they didn't really melt properly making piping them quite interesting. I still think they looked cute though!
I failed miserably at these sunflower balls but still love them. I used a cake pop mould for the yellow chocolate (again heat affected I think - the joys of living in central Queensland. Good thing I had some coconut oil on hand). The truffles are TimTam cheesecake balls rolled in chocolate sprinkles. You can see the Pinspiration for them
here.
I was so happy with how my little TinkerBell slippers turned out! And just 3 ingredients! Well, I made the coconut balls with condensed milk & desiccated coconut, but you could quite easily use store bought.
And Miss M had a great time helping colour the biscuits.
And using a little condensed milk to attach the coconut bites.
I can't remember now why we couldn't make it to the movies that day, but you can see some of the spread in
this post from the Club.
Details of my tools & toys can be found on
this page.
~J
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