It's probably a bad idea to ask your Aunty and Granny to make a Star Wars themed cake when neither of them have seen any of the Star Wars films (yes, I know, sorry) but that's what my nephew requested for his birthday this year. Why not start the year with a challenge!
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After a quick image search Mum and I decided to roughly copy some cute little Star Wars themed cupcakes we'd seen floating around the interwebz to go around our planet cake. We thought the fondant faces looked easy enough to achieve but my god they were fiddly! Especially that black and red horn guy.
*I apologise to all the die hard Star Wars fans who are either shouting at me in disgust or quietly dying inside.*
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Despite our lack of patience with fondant modelling and complete Star Wars ingnorance I think we did a pretty good job. The birthday boy was impressed by our efforts too, thankfully!
For the cakes we used a straight forward 3 egg victoria sponge recipe, dividing the batter between a 12 hole bun tin and a 7" round cake tin. Nice and simple. Except I burnt the first mixture. *Groan* At least it was easy to whip up a second batch.