My soon-to-be 8 year old son wanted a Yoda cake for his birthday this year. I came up with this design by combining a couple of different Star Wars Yoda coloring pages. To help transfer the design to the cake, I traced the back of my design paper with cake gel and, having transferred the … Read more
One of my husband’s colleagues asked me to do a birthday cake for his little boy’s birthday. He said anything to do with Starwars. The most obvious thing was to do a R2D2 cake. The most difficult thing to overcome was how to make him tilt backwards. I make a wedge shape out of Rice … Read more
This Darth Vader Birthday Cake was done all by hand and every part of it you can eat! I started with three 2 inch each chocolate fudge cakes, held together with chocolate frosting. On top of these I placed two, two inch cakes, lining the back of the cakes up with each other. I then … Read more
My 6 year old son is a Star Wars fanatic. I guess we made him that way by introducing him to the the movies, which are classics. So for his party this year the theme was Lego Star Wars, which he loves as well. I was originally intending just to do a Lego block till … Read more
This Boba Fett Cake was for a true Boba Fett fan. The cake is in fondant. I baked two chocolate 9×14 cakes. Stacked and then made the shape of Boba Fett, covered with chocolate buttercream (birthday boy’s favorite). The fondant is a marshmallow fondant recipe that is easy to manage and very good. The antenna … Read more
This is a Darth Vader cake that I copied from a cake on your website. It was the first time that I ever attempted fondant, so it is not great, but it was fun to make and I am pretty proud of it. I used home made marshmallow fondant which was easy to use, but … Read more
This Darth Maul Cake was for my son’s 5th birthday party. I found a picture of Darth Maul online, printed it and used an opaque projector to enlarge it. Then I traced the outline of the image onto wax paper and used gel icing on the reverse to go over the trace lines. I put … Read more
This Lightsaber Birthday Cake could be the easiest Star Wars cake to make – ever! I took candies that I found at my local candy shop to make lightsabers around the cake (strawberries and raspberries cables)and I matched them with assorted coloured gummies. The lightsabers handles are made from fudge mummies. The action figures used … Read more
Every year I partake in the motherly task of creating the birthday cake of choice for my boys. This year it was all Star Wars so I made this R2D2 birthday cake! I baked four 8 inch round cakes for the body and I baked the dome using a Pyrex bowl. The legs I created … Read more
This Commander Cody Cake is my third fondant cake. I got the idea for this cake from a picture of a helmet my son wanted. I was really nervous carving out the helmet out of cake, so I bought a Styrofoam block at my local crafts store and carved out the helmet, using sand paper … Read more
The icing is buttercream and the blue is fondant I rolled out and cut to the shape I needed. The fondant is adhered to the buttercream with clear vanilla. The silver details are white candy melts “painted” with silver highlighter dust mixed with pure lemon extract. I am happy to help anyone thru one of … Read more
Prepare a couple of sponges (tea cake is best as it is firm) and when cool, cut in to pieces that roughly match the shape of the mask. Line them inside of mask with plastic cling-wrap. Then layer the inside of the mask with the sponge, pushing it down as you go. I added a … Read more