Star Wars

Luca as Darth Vader, Ashton as an Ewok.

Our grandson Luca will be 5 years old next week and he wants a Star Wars Birthday cake.  I like to believe the cakes I make for the grand kids are NOT fodder for http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com so I have been planning in my head just how this cake will look.  When I asked Luca today what flavor cake he wanted he said all the flavors mixed together would be good!  I told him I would surprise him.

When we lived in Spain we only had Matt and Mike (pictured here) and somehow we got a copy of a Star Wars video tape.  We watched it EVERYDAY.  Star Wars became a staple in our lives and all 5 of us are nerdy fans of the original episodes.

One birthday we made a Storm Trooper Pinata.  It was really very easy but time consuming.  Cover a balloon with newspaper soaked in a mixture of flour and water.  White and black paint and Tadaa!  A storm trooper.