For the grand opening of Edinburgh Games Hub, local gamer and Geek Native advisor, @theweird1ne wanted to bring along some home baking.
The challenge was to bake something that would stand out among all the gamer goodness. The solution? Carcassonne cupcakes.
The catch? The Games Hub logo is a meeple. Carcassonne also needs meeple. For this baking mission to be complete some edible meeple had be made.
This was a fairly complex job but here’s a quick rundown of the steps needed. The image above shows the initial plan and then the results. Skip down to the bottom to see some pictures of the process.
- Buy some safe putty such as Gedo Siligum Silicone Moulding paste
- Use an actual Carcassonne meeple to make the mould. Treat the meeple carefully and don’t loose him.
- Repeat this process; you’ll want at least 20 meeple moulds
- Make some jelly, buy a lot of different colours and you may find that 1 tablespoon of water per cube is about right
- Gently free the jelly meeple from the mould
- You’ll want to pop the meeple in a container holding some cornflower, give it a brief and careful shake before brushing off the excess cornflower
- Make the cupcakes (the internet is full of cupcake recipes)
- Carve your Carcassonne design shapes into a sheet of royal icing
- Apply food dye carefully
- Ice your cupcakes (piping bags and other useful baking tools are your friend)
- Decorate the cakes, consider adding some meeples to the cakes too
- Leave time for adding extra fine details; you’ll probably want to make last minute adjustments
Cupcake Carcassonne or as the gamers of the Edinburgh Games Hub named it – cakeassonne.
