Grown Up Star Wars Cake for a Self-Confessed Geek

Grown Up Star Wars Cake for a Self-Confessed Geek

This Star Wars cake was relatively simple to create. The brief was to give a ‘geeky surprise’ to an adult Star Wars fan. The cake itself is a simple vanilla sponge with vanilla butter cream.  There are two layers, each layer made up from a three egg mix. The covering is fondant. I used soft silver pearls … Read more

Coolest R2D2 Birthday Cake

Coolest R2D2 Birthday Cake

I had to create a R2D2 cake for my son’s 5th birthday party. He was celebrating with his best friend Brady. They were moving soon and he was also a true Star Wars fan. It was going to be a special goodbye for these two friends from birth. My son Kelton truly thinks I could … Read more

Unbelievable Fondant-Free R2D2 Cake

Unbelievable Fondant-Free R2D2 Cake

I made this R2D2 cake for my husband who is a big R2 fan.  I haven’t made a 3D cake before so it was always going to be a challenge!  Also, my husband doesn’t like fondant icing so I had the pleasure of having to use butter cream icing to decorate it. It took two days to … Read more

Cool R2-D2 Birthday Cake

Cool R2-D2 Birthday Cake

Make 2 sponge cakes (26x23cm) and freeze them overnight to make cutting easier when making this R2-D2 birthday cake. Remove from freezer and cut while frozen, on morning of party. Cut legs and body extension out of one cake. Place on foiled tray and add rolling iceing (blue and white needed). Make red and silver colours … Read more

Coolest Homemade Star Wars Cake for my Husband’s 40th Birthday

homemade star wars cake

Everyone at the party loved my homemade Star Wars Cake and were amazed that the millennium falcon was an edible chocolate mold. It was a big hit, and hubby was very happy! I made a 3 layer German chocolate cake with coconut pecan icing to look like Chewbacca fur. Made Chewbacca sash out of chocolate … Read more

Cool Number 5 Darth Vader Cake

Darth Vader Cake

This was a Darth Vader cake I made for a 5 year old’s birthday. The customer wanted a cake in the shape of a 5 with a picture of Darth Vader on it. The colors are specific to what the customer wanted.

Coolest R2 D2 Cake

Homemade R2 D2 Cake

I came to this website looking for ideas for an R2 D2 cake. I combined a few ideas and came up with my cake. I baked 3 11x 18 sheet cakes (each with 3 boxes of cake mix). When I baked the last layer, I also used enough cake batter to bake a few cupcakes … Read more

Coolest AT-AT Star Wars Cake

Homemade AT-AT Star Wars Cake

I searched all over the internet for a cool Star wars cake to make, and either they fed too many, or were way too complicated! My son was set on having an AT-AT Star Wars cake, and I didn’t want to do a flat one, or have figures on a cake. I have done cakes … Read more

Coolest Darth Maul Birthday Cake

Homemade Darth Maul Birthday Cake

First I’d like to say thanks to all the people who gave their ideas on this site. I made this homemade Darth Maul birthday cake after looking at your lovely cakes for my son Luke on his 4th birthday. I used 3 round fruit cakes stacked on top of one another and slightly stepped (this … Read more

Easy Homemade Darth Vader Birthday Cake

Homemade Darth Vader Birthday Cake

My stepson has gone crazy for Star Wars this year and wanted a Darth Vader themed seventh birthday party. I looked through tons of cake ideas online and could not find a design that I wanted to work with. I have had terrible experience with black icing, not in the decoration but in what color … Read more

Coolest Darth Vader Mask Cake

Homemade Darth Vader Mask Cake

This was for my son’s fifth birthday. A huge Star Wars fan, he asked for a Darth Vader Mask Cake… and I took the challenge. I needed a basic plastic Darth Vader mask (sold in every toy shop). The cake itself is basic sponge cake, divided into three layers, and filled with frozen berries and … Read more

Simple Black Darth Vader Cake

Homemade Darth Vader Cake

I made this Darth Vader cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He is a huge Star Wars fan. I searched the web for a picture of Darth Vader that I blew up to the size I wanted and then printed it out. I then used it as an outline for the cake. I wanted the … Read more