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
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
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
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
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
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
I had this Star Wars Birthday Cake idea when we decided to make a surprise party for my boyfriend and his best friend. Since they’re both best friends since they were 5 years old and they have one day difference, I decided to make a cake for both and they both love Star Wars! I … Read more
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