Star Wars Cake – 10th Birthday

Last week we celebrated my son’s 10th birthday…2 months early.  We wanted to have his birthday party with all of his friends before everyone left for the summer. It was such a fun party and I know all the boys and Katch’s little sister loved it! The theme this year was all about Star Wars. Like I’ve said in the past, it’s so neat to see my kids change and evolve into these little people that love different things every year. Last year it was all about ROLLER COASTERS and this year with the video game Star Wars Battlefront and the movie Rogue One, my son was hooked on Star Wars! I asked him to sketch out ideas for cakes for his big birthday and the main thing he wanted was two lightsabers crossing on the front of the cake. So we came up with this…

I must admit, it was hard picking decorations to go on the cake because there are so many iconic things that represent Star Wars.  My son definitely wanted a DeathStar and an AT-AT Walker. We also wanted to represent different planets and worlds on our cake. On the base of the cake, I created a wooded forest to represent Endor where the Ewok live, the desert of Tatooine with a Sarlacc creature and the cold snowy planet of Hoth.

The DeathStar was actually a styrofoam ball that I bought at Joann’s with my 40% off coupon. I covered it in gray fondant and was able to work on this when I had a spare moment during the day.  R2-D2 and BB-8 were made from rice krispies treats and cover in fondant.

We also decided to put the most famous saying on the front of the cake in white, “May the force be with you.” It really stood out from the black fondant. The lightsabers on the middle tier were glowsticks that I activated right before the party. I stuck them in the styrofoam dummy cake and quickly made little handles to make them look like true lightsabers.

The AT-AT Walker took the most time to make. There were lots of little details that I tried to incorporate and keep it authentic looking.

I covered each cake in black fondant and splattered the fondant with white airbrush paint to represent “outer space.”

The ewok I made was a tiny thing but it fit right into the forest of Endor.

I wanted to show you the little TIE fighters I made for the cake. They were the perfect decor for outer space because I just stuck them into the side of the cake and it looked like they were flying around.

I hope you enjoyed the Star Wars cake and I will be posting pictures of the party and the details I incorporated in the party.

 

50th Wedding Anniversary Cake

This past weekend I made a cake for a 50th Wedding Anniversary party.  The focus was on the couple and the motto they have for their marriage, “Together Forever.” The cake was decorated with circles that represented a huge part of their marriage, their kids and grandkids. What an accomplishment, 50 years with your soulmate!

I made the cake topper a week before the party so that it had plenty of time to dry.  This was the first time I had made glasses for a fondant figurines, they were pretty cute. All I did was take my needle nose pliers and bend the floral wire into circles. Don’t forget, whenever you have non edible items on cakes to always tell your customer to remove before eating or don’t eat the figurine at all…it’s just for decoration. It’s crazy to say but some people would seriously eat the glasses. I had one customer when I first started making cakes eat a whole figurine in one bite! I said “There’s a toothpick in figurine! It’s the internal structure for the fondant and you just ate it!” I guess he was okay the next day because we didn’t hear anything from them…..I’m glad they were family friends. (It was actually half a toothpick, but still I couldn’t believe he just ate it)

The larger circles on the cake represented the couple’s kids and grandkids. Initially, I was going to paint the names on each circle but it just looked to harsh. I tried black writing, blue and white writing for the colored circles but it just didn’t look right.  And then I remembered these little letters in the clay section of Michael’s craft store near our house. I imprinted each name on the fondant circles with the clay text embossing set. It looked so much better than writing them and much more elegant.

Above is the rice cereal love seat that the couple was sitting on. I made a big batch of rice cereal treats, let them cool a bit and shaped them into a tiny couch. Later, I covered the rice cereal treats in brown fondant and used a Wilton tool to score the fondant to make it look worn. I also brushed brown petal dust on sections of the couch to give it a “leather look.”

Here’s to long marriages and many more years to come!!!