If you missed it yesterday, I sent John his last care package! (Yay!) It was a Harry Potter care package with a bunch of goofy items that correlated to each house at Hogwarts. I also included a few snitches in the package that I made. I’m a little embarrassed even posting this as a DIY since it’s so simple!

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It’s like the Muppet Babies and Star Wars decided to get together for a mashup and then made a cake together! There’s a death star playground, and baby Han, Chewy and even a little Lord Vader. Too cute! Not to mention the droids and ewoks around the base But I think the highlight is the teeny tiny yoda doll the crying chewbacca’s carrying. It’s really well done.

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About a month ago my friend Amanda (yes, of the amazingly awesome Amanda Rose Photography) decided she wanted to have a “Star Wars” party for her son’s first birthday. On a coolness level of 1 to 10…this is about a billion. So naturally I knew exactly where I wanted to go with this theme.

Ladies and Jedi, I give you…

Baby “Star Wars” Episode 1: The Playground Menace!!

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The cake aims to be a level-accurate depiction of levels 2.1 and 2.2. I chose those levels as it allowed me the variety to depict three different ‘places’ on tiers that could be joined relative to one another. I picked level 2 as I originally thought I could fit the whole level on the cake, but as I began I realised even these beginning levels were too long.

The cake took about 5 days to finish. There was a lot more detail than I expected. Everything from the stripes on the pipes to the embossing of the stones took a lot of time. Everything is hand cut, mostly with a craft knife, and either embossed or painted (with edible ink) to add the details. It’s all fondant or marzipan, save for the coral and the waves, which are piped from royal icing.

The pressure point on this one was how small everything necessarily became. The enemies are all less than a centimetre tall. The teeth on the goombas and piranha plants are less than a mm long. I’ve never worked on such a minute scale before. It was definitely a challenge, but has given me lots of confidence in attacking this sort of thing in future. Usually I’d omit teeny details because they were ‘too small to be done’. Now I know it’s possible with a steady hand, patience, and a hellovalot of time.

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