Muffins with a Locomotive and Smarties for Children’s Birthday Parties

You can easily decorate the muffins with a locomotive made of smarties and waffles. The most important thing about a children’s birthday party is surprises! In this paragraph, you will find a recipe for both creative and delicious chocolate muffins.

Not only are treats for children’s birthday parties a great gift, but they also indicate the motto of your party at the children’s birthday party. These gifts make an impression on every birthday table! The children can also decorate muffins themselves at the children’s birthday party. They are also a nice give-away at the end of a party.

Ingredients chocolate muffins for children’s birthday party

You will already have most of the ingredients at home. If you don’t have a muffin tin, borrow one or buy one using the link below, for example. The reusable silicone muffin molds are also nice. You can also use paper cups, which you can buy in almost every supermarket. For the chocolate muffins as motto cakes we need the following ingredients for 12 pieces:

• 125g softened butter
• 150 grams of sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 2 eggs
• 200 g dark chocolate
• 200 grams of flour
• 4 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 1 pinch of salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 175 ml milk
• 12 paper muffin cups
• 1 12-hole muffin tin

Preparation of the muffins with the locomotive

Funny decorated muffins or cakes for children’s birthdays are always an eye-catcher. If the decoration also fits the motto of the birthday party, then the surprise is a success. What’s nicer than fancy, fun muffins with Smarties? Muffins to decorate yourself. With these step-by-step instructions, even children can make sweet cakes if they get a little help from mum and dad.

1. First mix the butter with the vanilla sugar.
2. Then stir in the eggs.
3. Now roughly chop the chocolate.
4. Then preheat the oven to 180 degrees (convection 160 degrees).
5. Also mix flour with cocoa powder, salt, and baking powder and mix well.
6. Then fold in a third of the chocolate.
7. Line the wells of the muffin tin with paper cases.
8. Divide the batter into the molds.
9. Then distribute the remaining chocolate chips on the muffins.
10. Finally, bake the cakes in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes.

Ingredients for decorating with smarties

You can build many different decorations on your cupcakes. How about making scary figures on the muffins for pranks and Halloween? Or bring something very special to a summer party or a barbecue party in summer? Small cakes for dessert with edible flowers as decoration. For the train fans, you need the following ingredients to build 12 locomotives on top of the muffins:

• 12 chocolate rolls (you can find them on the cookie shelf).
• 6 chocolate biscuit sticks (e.g. Mikado).
• 48 chocolate lentils or Smarties.
• 1 tube of edible food-grade glue.
• 12 square waffle cookies or dominoes.
• possibly colored fondant or chocolate icing as a base for the locomotive.

Make your own edible glue

You don’t necessarily have to go buy the edible glue. If you make it the night before, you can also use homemade glue to attach your decorations to the muffins the next day. You need 50 ml of boiled water and a quarter of a teaspoon of CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose), as well as an empty jar that can be closed well. If you don’t have a CMC at hand, you can also make the glue with 50 g sugar and 25 ml water. The following video explains how to cook the sugar glue.

Preparation of the creative surprise

Children aged five and over can decorate the muffins with the locomotive with a little help. Children from the age of eight can do it all on their own. Especially on children’s birthday parties, such a baking campaign is a nice activity that the children will remember for a long time. A photo captures the little bakers for eternity. In order for the locomotives to succeed, it is best to proceed as follows:

1. First brush the cooled muffins with the chocolate icing.
2. Cut out 12 circles from fondant and glue them to the muffins with a dab of edible glue.
3. The locomotive can also be glued directly to the muffins.
4. To do this, stick the biscuit roll on and let it dry.
5. Then glue the square wafer biscuit to one end of the biscuit roll.
6. Glue the four wheels made of chocolate beans to the sides.
7. Glue the chimney from the biscuit sticks with chocolate.
8. Finally, let everything dry well.