Food an Art Year 9 CAT 2 Cupcake Design Task

Design Brief
You and a partner have decided to start a cupcake business. Your specialty will be designing cupcakes to
suit different party themes.
Some of the themes you will cater for include:

 Halloween
 Animals
 Spring
 Creepy Critters
 Valentine’s Day
 Funny Faces
 Chocolate Heaven
 Under the Sea
 Circus
 Football

You have decided to make some sample products to distribute to some of the local restaurants and party
centres.

Investigate and design

1. Use the internet and recipe books to provide you with inspiration for designs that suit the themes
above. Print or copy at least 6 different designs that you like and annotate each to say what
appeals to you about each one. Submit your inspiration. You can draw or provide pictures here.
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2. Choose a theme for your cupcakes.

Our theme is-

3. Design 3 cupcakes that suit your chosen theme. Draw each design and label each cupcake to show
what ingredients you will use to create the design. You will need to colour in your design too. You
may wish to do this on the computer. Submit your designs. Draw or copy and paste your designs
here.
Design 1-

Design 2-

Design 3-

4. Show your designs to the teacher before proceeding to the next step.
 5. Write out an order form for the ingredients you require. You only need to order the ingredients
for the decorations, not the cupcakes themselves – these will be organised for you.

Food Order (shopping list)

Supermarket (Groceries) Meat Green Groceries (Fruit and

Vegetables)

Production Plan for baking the cupcakes and decorating them:

You must now write a work plan outlining the time available, tools and equipment required and the safe and
hygienic work practices that should be followed.

TIME INGREDIENTS TOOLS AND KEY SAFETY AND HYGIENE

(10 Minute EQUIPMENT PROCESSES CONSIDERATIONS
INTERVAL
Soap, Tend to personal
tea towel hygiene: wash and dry
warm water , hands thoroughly, put
apron apron on.

Collect all Bowls,

measuring
cups,
measuring
spoons
 Presentation of
food item

Produce

You will be notified of the lessons during which you will make and decorate the cupcakes.

Insert photo of your cupcakes here.

Evaluation
a) Give each cupcake design an overall rating using the following hedonic scale.

Cupcake design ________________________________

Cupcake design _______________________________

Cupcake design _______________________________

 b) If you completed this design exercise again, what aspects of the design would you change and
why? (Eg. Use of different ingredients)

c) What difficulties, if any, did you face while completing the production of your cupcakes?

d) Comment on the way you worked during the production of your cupcakes – ie how efficiently did
you use your time, did you take as much care as you could have, did you order everything you
needed, did you clean up appropriately?

e) Any comments about the overall finish and presentation of your cupcakes?

Submit everything required for assessment once completed.