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Minecraft is such a fun cube-ular building game, and I knew I wanted to bring some of the games creativity into my son’s birthday party, and I couldn’t think of a better idea that letting the kids frost and decorate their own Minecraft style cupcakes as a party activity.

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Supplies Needed:

• Cake Recipe or Box Cake Mix and necessary ingredients
• Square or Rectangle Baking Pan (I used the Wilton one linked)
• Frosting (Chocolate and Green Vanilla)
• Melting Chocolate (Dark Chocolate, White Chocolate and Green Candy Melt Chocolates) – I linked all these chocolate to Amazon, but they seem a lot more expensive there.  I think I paid about $4 per chocolate melt buying them at Walmart.  We had ten people at the party I use only one of each color and had plenty with lots of leftovers.
• Foil or Wax Paper
• Pizza Cutter

I started with buying a bunch of chocolate melts and make them into different shades by added different amounts of white and dark chocolate to colored candy melts.  I ended up using dark chocolate, white chocolate, green candy melt chocolates and two shades of blue (in case they wanted to make water). If I were to do it again, I’d skip the blue and just do a few shades of brown and a few shades of green. The kids seemed to prefer those colors anyway.

I followed the instructions on the packaged for stirring and melting and then I used a spatula to spread my melted chocolate over a piece of foil (parchment paper would probably work better, but I was halfway through melting my chocolate when I realized I was out) in any case foil ended up working fine.

Let your chocolate cool and harden.

If you happen to have a ruler I think you could make these work a little better by ruling them out so the squares are even… but I’m kind of a “Good Enough” type of person, so I just eyeballed the lines and then used a pizza cutter cut/scored the chocolate into squares.

Once you’ve scored or cut your chocolate into squares, carefully bend the foil and peel them off.  I stored them in some plastic bags until the party (and our party got delayed a few weeks, even with the delay the chocolates held up great in their bags until it was party time)

The little squares were perfect for cupcake decorating.

I did some big and some little because I wanted colored squares for the kids to decorate their cupcakes with, but also some big ones for the cake.  In hindsight I wish had made them all small squares and I think my cake would have looked better with lots of little squares rather than a few big squares… but again, good enough, and my son loved it as it was, so I guess no regrets? Certainly not enough to remake or redecorate it.

For the party cupcakes, I make up two box cake mixes in a rectangle pan – one chocolate (to be “Mud Bricks”) and one vanilla (to be “Sandstone”) and cut them into square/cube pieces.

When it came time to decorate I let each child choose their “Mud Brick” or “Sandstone” base, gave them each a smear of brown chocolate frosting and green vanilla frosting on their plates, as well as little cupcake wrappers filled with my square chocolate melts to decorate with, and let them have at it.

They loved it, and it was a fun time filler and transition from a very chaotic activity to a more chill one.  We planned to show off our creations before eating them, but they proved to be too delicious and ended up getting snacked on before our display, but I made a few after the fact to give an idea of how they looked.  I’d give this one a 10/10 rating because I had fun preparing it, the kids loved it, and it was a fun creative way to play with food and transition eagerly between party activities. 

Check out more of my Easy DIY Minecraft Party Ideas here 🙂