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 to use for R2D2’s piece on his head. I knew I would have to cut it down so I baked a few in case I messed up.
Once they cooled I used butter cream icing between the layers, and iced the whole outside of it with thinned down icing. I froze the cake for 24 hours to make the cutting and shaping easier.
I cut the cake shape out. It was really much easier than I expected. I used icing and toothpicks to put the little eye piece on the head.
I printed out a few pictures of R2D2 off various web pages. Not cakes but the actual R2D2 to look for details and what was on the sides of his legs. They looked too plain left just white.
I put all the detail on using a #3 tip and filled in the areas with the same tip. I then wet the tip of my finger and smoothed down the filled in areas.
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