Watch Bake Create - Owls

This week focuses on owls and we have:

Watched Legend of the Guardians
Baked Chocolate Owl Cupcakes
Created Tissue Roll Owls

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Chocolate Owl Cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

2 eggs

4oz sugar

4oz self raising flour

4oz butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

Decoration
200g chocolate
200g double cream
Oreo biscuits
Smarties/M&Ms/Skittles etc

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
• Combine all of the cupcake ingredients (butter, eggs, flour, sugar and vanilla) together in a bowl to create you cake mixture
• Divide the mixture equally between 12 cupcake cases in a cupcake baking tray
• Cook for around 12-15 minutes until risen and golden
• Allow to cool
• To create your topping, warm the cream in a saucepan and pour it over the broken chocolate in a bowl
• Leave the cream to melt the chocolate for a minute and then stir well to remove any lumps
• Place in the fridge to chill for an hour
• Apply to the cakes
• Split the Oreo biscuits in half and place the sides with filling on top of the topping
• Add a small amount of topping onto a sweet and place it on top of the biscuits to represent eyes
• Use an orange coloured sweet and push it into the cupcake beneath the biscuits to represent a nose
• Leave to set for 30 minutes in the fridge
• Scoff!

Tissue Roll Owl

Equipment

Tissue roll

Sticky tape

Cake cases

Glue

Scissors

Pen

Felt/card/paper

Method

Fold the top edge of the tissue roll over in two and tape it down to create two points

Cut 3 paper cases in half and remove the non ruffled area

Using the glue, stick two halves of the cake cases onto the sides of the tissue roll for wings

Stick 3 of the remaining halves onto the front of the tissues roll for feathers

Using card (or paper and felt), cut out circles as eyes, adding details with pen and stick above the paper case halves

Add a triangular piece of felt/card for a nose

Leave to dry

  

Legend of the Guardians

This is an animated adaptation of the first three books of the 'Guardians of Ga'Hoole' series by Kathryn Lasky. Barn owl Soren is captured and taken to St. Aggie's, a home for orphan owls. This orphanage for young owls forces the owls into becoming soldiers and they are made to join the organisation's army. Soren soon makes friends and together they break free and travel to the island of Ga'Hoole to help a group of owls battle against the evil leaders at St. Aggie's....