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How I Made A LEGO Man Cake

Three cakes were actually made using a boxed yellow cake mix. There was one large round cake and two small loaf cakes.

You will notice that the large cake has lines on it. I really should have put a flat plate instead of a cooling rack on top of the cake can when I turned the cake out of the cake pan. The cooling rack left lines on the cake.

When the cakes were fully cooled, I started work on trimming the large cake. The round cake had two opposing ends trimmed. I needed to create areas for the studs (the bumps on a LEGO).

The two small loaf cakes had their tops trimmed so that they would look flat on the top and the bottom. Then they were added to the ends of the round cake to create the studs.

Originally I thought that I was going to have to add yellow food coloring to a tub of store bought while frosting. The first store I stopped at didn’t have yellow frosting. At the second store I stopped at I found a tub of bright yellow frosting. It looked like just the color I was going to need. I wasn’t need to try to get the LEGO yellow color on my own.

The round cake was frosted first and placed in the aluminum cake pan that would carry the cake to school. Then the loaf cakes were frosted and put on the ends of the round cake. The area where the cakes joined to together were frosted over to make it look like one piece.

All that was left was to add the facial features to the LEGO man cake Two cookies from a sandwich cookie were used to make the eyes. I had planned for chocolate covered cookies, but didn’t find them at either store I visited. The sandwich cookies worked out to be a great plan B.

The mouth of the LEGO man cake was a single stick of black licorice. I used a whole piece of licorice. In hindsight I wish I had trimmed the licorice and given the LEGO man a smaller tighter smile.

This fun LEGO man cake didn’t last long at the cake walk. JDaniel and I walked by the cake walk shortly after the fun fair started and it had already been won!

Here are some other fun LEGO themed creations:

If you try these LEGO ideas , please leave me a comment below telling me about how your experiments went or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.

A preschool teacher shared this snack for kids Kings Cake recipe with me. Her students loved this sweet snack on Fat Tuesday in honor of Mardi Gras. JDaniel and I decided to try it out. I wanted to see if my kindergartner could complete the steps to make this fun snack. It was no surprise that he did a great job. He was able to do every step except putting the Kings Cake rolls in the oven and taking them out. I did that for him.

Step One- Baking the Rolls

Put the contents of a tube of cinnamon rolls on a greased pan and cook for the time listed on the package.

Step Two- Frosting the Rolls

The frosting for the cinnamon rolls can in a small plastic bag. I cut a hole in one of the corners of the frosting bag and JDaniel squirted it each of the rolls. ( He might have licked his fingers a little bit.) If you buy a can of cinnamon rolls that has the frosting in a small can you can heat the icing for a few seconds in a microwave and then transfer it to a plastic bag to squirt it on the rolls.

JDaniel used a plastic knife to spread the frosting to areas of he felt needed just a little more.

Step Three- Adding Sprinkles to the Snacks for Kids

Snacks for Kids- Kings Cake Recipe - Adding Sprinkles

Prior to cooking the rolls we combined gold (yellow), green, and purple colored sugar and sprinkles into a small sprinkle container. (We have various holiday sugar and sprinkle containers leftover from special meals and dessert creations.)

Snacks for Kids- Kings Cake Recipe - Frosting

When the rolls were frosted, JDaniel added the mixture to the top of the rolls. Some ended up with more sugar than sprinkles, but all of them looked delicious.

Step Four- Taste Testing

Snacks for Kids- Kings Cake Recipe - Tasting

We both test tested the Kings Cake rolls and decided that they made a wonderful snacks for kids.Hints:

You could easily make the rolls ahead of time and just put out the frosting and sprinkles for your children to work with.
Having plastic knife to spread out the frosting really helped cover more of each roll.

If you are looking for some Mardi Gras activities for your preschoolers or kindergartners, you might want to check out my Mardi Gras Mask and Learning Activities post.

Deirdre Smith writes/owns JDaniel4’s Mom. After twenty years as a elementary school and technology resource teacher in Northern Virginia, she became a stay at home mom in upstate South Carolina. Her blog features ways she and her 5 year old are exploring learning, crafting, creating healthy meals and living life to its fullest. Deirdre can also be found on her blog’s FB page. You can also check her out on Google+.