ideas for cake contest (bug theme)?

Question

Hi!
We are trying to find ideas for a cake baking contest. The only rule is to tie your cake in w/ their theme...BUGS.

Does anyone have any fun ideas that will help us win?!!

I'm sure the obvious: Bake it in a bowl and turn it into a ladybug or use chocolate frosting for dirt and decorate w/ gummy worms will be done. We are looking for something UNIQUE!

Thanks in advance for your clever ideas!
Lanny L.

Answer 1

Make a lady bug, you cant go wrong."chocolate chips for the dots".

Answer 2

Cocoon cakes!

Make tiny little cupcakes. When cool dip them in a glaze or frost them lightly and cover with coconut. For added ewww, you can put a dab of jelly or a carmel in the middle of the cupcake to simulate bug guts.



Or

SPIDER CAKE



* 1 boxed cake mix

* Black Frosting

* 1 box green gelatin

* 8 black licorice sticks

* 8 gumdrops, M & M's or other round candy for eyes



Prepare any boxed cake mix. Bake it in 2 metal bowls, 1 bigger than the other. Once unmolded, cut the bigger one (the"body") in half, horizontally. CAREFULLY scoop out an adequate cavity in each half. FILL with well-whipped set green Jello, and reattach the halves. Frost both cakes black, arrange on serving platter. Use licorice sticks as legs. Use 2 BIG green gumdrops and 6 little ones as eyes. When the cake is cut into, it spurts green goop, just like a real spider when stepped on.



Variations:



1) Add a red hourglass to the back for a Black Widow.



2) Substitute pistachio pudding instead of green jello.



Black cake frosting: add blue food coloring to chocolate frosting or purchase black food coloring from a specialty store.

(This is so gross when you cut into it and the guts come out)

Answer 3

How about using cup cakes, for a centipede, using black whip licorice for the legs and tenticals? You could also use the lady bug idea, but use smaller bowls, three to be exact, and make an ant, use a mini muffin pan to make cute little feet and connect with the black licorice. Place it on a sheet cake decorated to look like a tablecloth from a picnic, like red and white checks. Good luck. Let's us know how and what you do.

Answer 4

I was just researching butterfly images for a project and on Google Images there's a butterfly cake. It looks like it was carved out of a large sheet cake with brightly decorated wings. You could also make a caterpiller or earth worm out of decorated cupcakes in an ess shaped line. Sounds like a fun project. Good luck.

Answer 5

Does the cake have to be entirely edible? If so, maybe you could make it more 3-D by making things like antennas out of dry sticks of spaghetti (colored green w/ food coloring), and topping the spaghetti with colored marshmallows or large gumballs.



Or maybe a spider web (if that applies to your "bug") made of string licorice.

Answer 6

I subscribe to Taste of Home Magazine. ( recipes) In every issue, they have unique cakes. I've seen a cute catepillar, a great spider at Halloween, etc. Go to their web site; you might get some cute ideas there.

Answer 7

I googled some ideas, and here's what I came up with:



Bug mountain by Family Fun:

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/cake/cake_bugmountain/



Butterfly cake by Family Fun

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/cake/cake_butterfly/



Caterpillar cakes at Coolest Birthday Cakes

http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/cake-gallery.html



Spider cake at KidsKuisine

http://www.kidskuisine.com/?p=123



Ant Hill cake at How Stuff Works

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/creepy-crawly-anthill-cake-recipe.htm



Good luck at your contest!

Answer 8

Movie theme sounds wonderful.

Answer 9

You should check out kraftfoods.com. They always have the most creative and inventive recipes for things like that. Good luck!

Answer 10

make a red velvet cake.. in any bug you like ,, maybe a red ant.. when you cut it open it is red inside... uses powder or paste color to achieve the really red color