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
Watcha need: 2 cans of frosting (white) blue, red and green food coloring blue, green, red sugar 4 Twinkies 2 skewers 2 ice cream cones black sprinkles I made this homemade Clone Wars Lightsabers cake for my nephews 8th birthday and he loved it!!! I made a 13×9 sheet cake, then colored white frosting from … Read more
My son wanted a Lukey Skywalker cake for his birthday! I found a picture on the internet and drew it on using the gel method (piping gel traced over the picture onto wax paper and then turn it over on the cake and outline with buttercream icing.) I also drew light sabers using a large … Read more
The corners of the helmet are made from rolled fondant and placed to look as if they are standing up from the cake, again to add dimension. It took a lot of black food paste to tint the fondant, so have patience! I also made buttercream icing and tinted it black to pipe the accents … Read more
I made two tiers for this Star Wars Birthday Cake. I covered each tier with buttercream and trimmed it with buttercream. In order to create the fondant men I bought store bought fondant because it molds easier for me than my homemade recipe. I also used cookie markers for the details. I started with the … Read more
I made this Darth Vader Birthday Cake for my son, Brady’s, 7th birthday party. I got the idea and the inspiration from a cake I saw here on coolest birthday cakes from another posting. I made three batches of chocolate cake and used three 9″ pans, a loaf pan and a stainless steel bowl to … Read more
