How To Make A Fun Inchworm Cake And Bug Cupcakes - Video

by Liv Hansen

This cute Inchworm cake is perfect for so many party themes.

And this colorful cake will be a big hit at your child's birthday party/

It's not your every day cake, so get ready to see lots of smiles when you bring your Inchworm cake out.

You'll find detailed written instructions just below the video.




How to make an inchworm cake and bug cupcakes

Instructions

How to make an inchworm cake and bug cupcakes

Assembling the inchworm bug cake:

1. Place Bundt cake on cutting board. Tip: You can put a damp towel under the board to keep it from moving around as you work.
2. Slice the cake into two pieces, slightly to the left of its center, so that the smaller piece is about one-third the size of the cake.
3. Cut the smaller of the two pieces of cake in half. The smller pieces will serve as the head and tail of the inchworm bug cake.
4. Stand the large piece of cake up on the serving platter so that it looks like an upside-down letter “U”. Place the small pieces of cake at each end of the large piece. “Glue” the cake pieces to the serving platter by putting a dollop of frosting under each piece.



Decorating the inchworm bug cake:

1. Frost the entire cake, giving the cake about a ¼ inch to ½ inch-thick layer of frosting. Use the spatula to smooth the frosting and remove any excess. Work from the bottom of the cake up and over so the texture of the frosting looks like the segments of an inchworm.
2. Decorate the cake by placing gum drops at intervals along both sides of the cake to look like the inchworm’s feet.
3. Place two vanilla wafers on the front of the cake for eyes. Use frosting to adhere a chocolate candy to the middle of each vanilla wafer to complete the eyes.
4. Make the inchworm’s antennas by sticking a green gumdrop into one end of a small pretzel stick. Make two antennae and then press them into the inchworm’s head, just above the eyes.
5. Make a smiling mouth using chocolate candies placed in an arc underneath the eyes.



Bumble Bee Cupcakes

1. Frost the entire cupcake with white frosting.
2. Stack yellow and chocolate candies standing up on the top of the cupcake.
3. Use white candy-coated almonds to make the wings.
4. Place a chocolate disc flat on the cupcake for the bee’s head.
5. Using a pastry bag, pipe two frosting dots onto the bee’s head and attach two small yellow candies to make the eyes.

Create ladybug, butterfly, caterpillar and spider cupcakes with an assortment of candies such as gumdrops, candy coated chocolate pieces and string licorice. Let your imagination run wild!

Betty Crocker's inchworm bug cake serves 16 and the bug cupcakes recipe serves 24.


Note From Grandpa Mike

Liv:

Very creative - and the Bug Cupcake idea is lots of fun.


Your Inchworm Cake will match this fun birthday theme Bugs Everywhere, a fun theme filled with cute, crawling critters.


You can have a really fun theme party with this Butterfly party set.



Have FUN

Grandpa Mike
Fun Kid Birthday Parties