Fruit gums, including of course gummy bears, are among children's most popular sweets, but adults also enjoy them. Now how about you prepare a delicious fruit gum cake from these delicacies? The idea is particularly suitable for children's birthday parties and will particularly appeal to the little ones. There are many different ways to prepare such a cake or a cake of this type. We would like to introduce you to some original and, above all, simple ideas.
Fruit gum cake made from finished products
The fruit gum for themTorteYou can get it ready from the store. Whether you use gummy bears, laughing gums, gummy candies or other variants is entirely up to you. You are also welcome to put together a mix. In principle, you have the opportunity to let your imagination run wild. That tooBirthday boycan help with this if you don't want the cake to be a surprise.
If you feel like it and have a little more time to bake, you can also make the fruit gum yourself. This is quick and not difficult at all. We have prepared two ideas: one is cute ideas for girls and the other is an idea for boys. But first, a few moreRecipesfor the cake base.
Cake base recipe
You bake the cake very easily. You can use a classic and quick recipe for the cake base. Bake one or more bases and then stack them on top of each other. You can also make the middle area out of rings so that you have a cavity to fill with fruit gum. You need the following products:
– 5 EL Mehl
– 4 level tablespoons of sugar
– 3 Owner
– 2 EL Kill
– 1 tbsp vinegar
– 1 tsp baking powder
– vanilla sugar
– 1 pinch of salt
Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl and mix both products together. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until fluffy and then beat in the oil and vinegar. Then add the flour mixture. Beat the egg white until stiff and stir in the salt. Mix egg whites with remaining batter. Put this base in a greased form and bake in a preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes at 175 degrees.
Now decorate your cake with the homemade or purchased fruit gum. To ensure that they stick well, you should cover the cake with a glaze. The gummy bear cake is also very popular. As you can probably guess, you can easily use ready-made gummy bears to make a gummy bear cake. How exactly you arrange them is entirely up to you. Your child can join in too!
If you don't just want to decorate the outside of the cake with fruit gum, you can of course also incorporate it into the dough. The surprise for the children only comes when the cake is cut. Another variant is to color the floor. It's best to use food coloring for this.
A very original dessert idea of a different kind is a sweet pizza, for which you only need a base. Instead of vegetables and tomato sauce, simply use fruit gums again. Interestingly, it manages to imitate pizza toppings very well.
Fruit gum recipe
You can buy any shape for the fruit gum and adapt the figures to the theme of the birthday party. You can then decorate the cake as you like with the edible figures. You can also put the sweets in a bowl for snacking.
It tastes best when real 100% juice is used to make it. You will need 1 cup. And the fruit gum cake that you decorate later will also be much more delicious. You also need 3 teaspoons of honey as a sweetener, 2 flat tablespoons of gelatin and the form already mentioned. Once you have taken care of all of this, the easiest part of the preparation remains.
Pour the first juice into a saucepan. Then add the gelatine and wait a moment until the gelatine has absorbed the liquid. Then mix everything together well. Bring the liquid to a boil and stir until the gelatin has melted and there are no lumps.
Now you need to sweeten the mixture. So add the honey. Depending on how sweet the juice used is, it may be necessary to add a little more honey or use less than 3 teaspoons.
The jelly is now ready. While it is still hot and liquid, it must be poured into the selected mold. The most accurate way to do this is to use a clean syringe. This way you avoid making a mess. If you want fruit gum in different colors, repeat the above steps with a different juice.
You can also use a plain baking pan and cut it into cubes later. Either way, the jelly now has to go into the fridge to harden. This takes about an hour. Then the cute cake decoration is ready to be used.
The shapes for the fruit gums that are offered today are really very diverse. The cake can be a real eye-catcher and, as you can see, is really not difficult to make. Want more inspiration but this time for boys, just read on!
Flowers and stars are probably less suitable for boys. Instead, you can use fruit gum in the form of Lego building blocks to design the cake. You can get the right shapes for this in a store. To make the figures look more interesting, choose a mold in which “bricks” of different sizes and shapes can be made.
Here, too, we recommend choosing different colors. For colors that are not available in the form of juice (e.g. blue), you can also use food coloring. In this way you get a colorful fruit gum cake that will put a smile on every child's face.
