Make minecraft food
Make Minecraft-inspired edible foods using simple ingredients to recreate pixelated cake, bread, and stew while learning measuring, decorating, and safe kitchen skills.
Step-by-step guide to make Minecraft food
RIDICULOUSLY EASY Minecraft Food Recipes: EDIBLE Minecraft Blocks
Step 1
Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds to get ready to cook.
Step 2
Use the ruler to lightly mark a 1-inch grid on the top of the cake with the back of a butter knife.
Step 3
Cut the cake along the marks to make 1-inch cake squares that look like pixels.
Step 4
Cut the loaf of bread into 1-inch squares to make Minecraft bread blocks.
Step 5
Scoop three spoonfuls of white frosting into three small bowls.
Step 6
Add a different drop of food coloring to each bowl to make three colors.
Step 7
Stir each bowl until the frosting color is even and smooth.
Step 8
Spread colored frosting on cake squares to create pixel patterns using the small spatula or knife.
Step 9
Spread brown-colored frosting on each bread square to make Minecraft-style bread tops.
Step 10
Cut some of the bread squares into 1/2-inch cubes to make little stew pixels.
Step 11
Ask an adult to warm the canned soup on the stove or in the microwave until hot.
Step 12
Pour the warmed soup into a shallow bowl for your Minecraft stew.
Step 13
Sprinkle the bread-cube pixels on top of the stew to make pixel toppings.
Step 14
Arrange your pixel cake squares bread blocks and stew bowl on a plate like a Minecraft scene.
Step 15
Share your finished Minecraft foods on DIY.org
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
What can we use if we don't have food coloring, a ruler, or a small spatula?
If you don't have food coloring, use jam, cocoa, or powdered drink mix to tint the frosting, and substitute the ruler with the handle of a butter knife (or a folded paper marked at 1 inch) and the small spatula with the flat side of a butter knife or a spoon to spread frosting.
My cake squares keep crumbling when I cut the 1-inch pixels—what should I try?
If the cake crumbles when cutting 1-inch pixels, chill the cake for 20–30 minutes, re-score the grid with the back of the butter knife, and cut squares with a sharp serrated knife or dental floss for cleaner slices.
How can I adapt this activity for a 3-year-old, a 7-year-old, and a 12-year-old?
For a 3-year-old have an adult wash hands and pre-cut the cake and bread into 1-inch squares so the child only spreads pre-mixed frosting, for a 7-year-old let them mark the grid, mix two frosting colors, and spread pixels with supervision, and for a 12-year-old have them design complex pixel patterns, cut 1/2-inch stew cubes, and safely warm the canned soup with adult oversight.
How can we make the Minecraft scene more realistic or creative beyond just cake, bread, and stew?
Enhance the scene by crushing chocolate cookies for dirt under cake pixels, piping details or tools with leftover colored frosting using a toothpick, and adding small candies or sprinkles as inventory items on the bread blocks before arranging everything on the plate.
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Facts about cooking for kids
🍞 Bread is ancient: humans have been making and baking bread for more than 10,000 years.
🥄 Measuring matters in the kitchen — 1 teaspoon is about 5 milliliters, and accurate measuring helps recipes keep the right texture.
🟩 Minecraft textures and many classic pixel artworks use a 16×16 pixel grid — perfect for planning frosting squares on a pixel cake.
🍰 Minecraft's cake is one of the few placeable foods in the game and is crafted from wheat, sugar, milk, and eggs in a 3x3 grid.
🧼 Washing hands for 20 seconds (sing 'Happy Birthday' twice) greatly reduces germs and keeps food safe to eat.
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