This colorful lego cake is guaranteed to result in a good mood! Absolutely uncomplicated, but a real eye-catcher.
Absolutely uncomplicated, but a real eye-catcher: this colorful building block cake will result in a good mood!
Taste and Occasion
The best thing is that Lego cake makes not only girls and boys happy. Because the preparation is also super uncomplicated, even the older bakers are happy 🙂 . Perfect for children's birthday parties, cake bazaars, or parties!
Ingredients
My recipe is for a Lego cake without fondant. Thus, it is also wonderfully suitable for beginners and all those who, like me, can do without motif cakes and Co. well 😉 . The easy building block cake is a mixture of other baking recipes such as my lemon cake. The highlight: I prepared the batter for the Lego sheet cake with apple juice instead of milk and brushed it with it after baking. Wonderfully moist and fruity! The result is, of course, eye-catching because of the decoration: a colorful icing with matching chocolate lentils.
Oh well, clearly, a Lego cake is not diet food. But great masses of sugar (650g!) and butter (440g), as used in other recipes from major portals, are absolutely unnecessary. Or how do you think about this?
How to make the Lego Cake
First of all, grease a baking sheet (at least 1614,5 in / 4237 cm) and dust with flour or cover with baking paper. Preheat to 350°F/175°C. Beat the softened butter and sugar for a few minutes until creamy or light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the room-warm eggs until well blended.
Mix flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest. Stir into the egg cream alternately with the apple juice (but not too long). The dough should be hard to tear from the spoon; otherwise, use more liquid if necessary. Spread dough evenly on a baking sheet and smooth out. Bake for about 20 minutes. Test with chopsticks. The cake should remain light in color and not stay in the oven too long to avoid dryness.
Brush the cake very thinly with some juice and let cool completely. Then cut into 4-6 strips (depending on the number of colors you want). For frosting, sift powdered sugar and mix with enough juice and milk to make a thick but still spreadable frosting. Divide frosting into 4-6 portions. Thoroughly stir a small amount (e.g., ¼ teaspoon) of sifted coloring powder into each frosting portion first. Add more powder as desired until desired shade is achieved.
Using a small cake palette, pastry scraper, or spoon, spread divided dough evenly thinly with one color, cut into oblong or square pieces with a large sharp knife, and top Lego-style with chocolate lentils.
Top Tip
You do not need artificial food coloring full of chemicals and E-numbers to make such a colorful Lego cake from the baking sheet. You can use e.g. natural color powders from fruits and vegetables and gel colors or color pastes (must be fat-soluble) for a white chocolate icing.
Recipe Card
Lego Cake
Equipment
- 1 Baking Sheet
Ingredients
For the dough
- 250 grams (1 cup) butter, soft
- 180 grams (1 cup) sugar
- 6 eggs, medium
- 300 grams (2 ½ cups) all-purpose flour
- 130 grams (1 cups) cornstarch
- 1 small bag baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest, quantity to taste
- 150 milliliters (10 tablespoons) apple juice, or milk
For the decoration
- 3 tablespoons apple juice, for coating/soaking
- 250 grams (2 cups) powdered sugar
- 3 tablespoons milk, very coarse
- 3 tablespoons apple juice, or lemon juice
- 200 grams (1 cups) colored chocolate lentils
- 4 teaspoons natural food coloring
Instructions
- Grease a baking sheet (at least 1614,5 in / 4237 cm) and dust with flour or cover with baking paper. Preheat to 350°F/175°C.
- Beat the softened butter and sugar for a few minutes until creamy or light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the room-warm eggs until well blended.
- Mix flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest. Stir into the egg cream alternately with the apple juice (but not too long). The dough should be hard to tear from the spoon; otherwise, use more liquid if necessary.
- Spread dough evenly on a baking sheet and smooth out. Bake for about 20 minutes. Test with chopsticks. The cake should remain light in color and not stay in the oven too long to avoid dryness.
- Brush the cake very thinly with some juice and let cool completely. Then cut into 4-6 strips (depending on the number of colors you want).
- For frosting, sift powdered sugar and mix with enough juice and milk to make a thick but still spreadable frosting. Divide frosting into 4-6 portions. Thoroughly stir a small amount (e.g., ¼ teaspoon) of sifted coloring powder into each frosting portion first. Add more powder as desired until desired shade is achieved.
- Using a small cake palette, pastry scraper, or spoon, spread divided dough evenly thinly with one color, cut into oblong or square pieces with a large sharp knife, and top Lego-style with chocolate lentils.
Notes
- Depending on how thin or thick you want the icing, you may need more or less powdered sugar. The fact that not only juice is used as the liquid but also some milk results in more opaque and best-thing colors.
- For natural coloring and decorating, coloring food powders are suitable, for example. Those who use gel color or coloring pastes should follow the preparation instructions and may have to adjust the dosage.
- How many chocolate lentils (Smarties or any other manufacturer) you need depends on how many bricks you cut from the cake and how densely you cover them.
Ingredient substitutions
Variations
If you want to make kids happy, bake the Lego sheet cake very soon! And use the colors right away for the rainbow cheesecake, or healthy donuts 🙂 . Of course, I have many more delicious sheet cakes and baking recipes for kids!
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