Star Wars Birthday Cake

We had our Star Wars Birthday Party.  Having a birthday party at Chucky Cheese is definitely like being in "A galaxy far, far away."  The noise level was out of this world.  But the birthday boy had a great time and that is all that counts.  Ashton, our almost 2 year old grandson DID NOT LIKE CHUCKY CHEESE. I finally volunteered to sacrifice the party and take Ashton home.  I know, I know...I'm just a selfless person.

I think the cake turned out OK so I don't think I will show up at cakewrecks.blogspot.com/ this time.

Luca's Birthday Cake

I would have rather used fondant in place of the buttercream frosting but store bought fondant tastes yucky and I sacrificed (AGAIN) for the consumer especially since they were 5 year olds.  The frosting was delish though and I ate more than my share of the leftover cake.  When I make Ashton's cake in May I am going to try to make the fondant so the cake looks good and tastes good.

I did use fondant for R2D2, the Deathstar, words, and stars.  Oh, and the light sabers.  Although everything was edible, with the exception of a few toothpicks on R2, not everything tasted good.

After spending hours making the pattern for the Star Wars Logo, kneading the blue into the fondant and using a razor blade to cut the logo I knew I needed to find a better way to make the stars.

I did not want to cut each of the 30 or so stars by hand so I made three different sized "cookie cutters."  For the first one I just sorta haphazardly bent a strip of roof flashing into a star and it looked like I just sorta haphazardly bent a strip of roof flashing into a star.  So I tossed that one and planned a bit and here are the three resulting "cookie cutters." I even impressed myself with how good they turned out, but I'm easily impressed with myself.