Millennium Falcon Birthday Cake

Camron always has great ideas for birthday cakes! For his birthday last year he wanted this Millennium Falcon cake that has a LEGO feel. It was the first Star Wars cake I ever made. I'm a Star Wars fan so I was excited to make it for him!

It's a LEGO Birthday - The Cake

Months ago, when Seth said he would like a LEGO cake for his birthday, I started thinking about how I was going to do it. I wanted to put a pirate mini figure on it and I didn't think there was any easy to do that. Until, that is, I came across the silicone form. I made it out of Rice Krispie cake because I wanted it to stand. The treasure chest is made out of Rice Krispie cake as well. I hollowed it out so I could fill it with chocolate loonies. And for the bottom boarder I used my chocolate LEGO's.








The awesome candles I made!



My LEGO pirate model and his treasure chest! He stood so still and never once complained! ;)



This cake turned out so great! Way better then I expected! Someone asked me how long it to make, and honestly I don't know! A couple hours here and there add up. I do know that time I put in was all worth while when Seth got up on his birthday morning and said "WOW! I really like my cake! WOW!"

It's a LEGO Birthday - Getting Ready

My son loves LEGO. Long ago he decided he wanted a LEGO cake for his birthday. I searched the internet for cakes but couldn't find one I liked. I really wanted to combine pirates and LEGO since Seth really likes the LEGO pirate ships and we have the play ship in the backyard. Then I came across these silicone forms.



Now this was something I could work with! First off I made LEGO chocolates. I've melted chocolate many times, however this time I thought maybe I should do it the correct way using boiling water. Does it ever work well!! I shouldn't be surprised I guess, but I always thought just doing it on the stove top was quicker and easier. Never again!





This is the first time I've ever used silicone moulds. I couldn't believe how easy it was to get the chocolates out! Just turn them inside out! So much easier then the plastic moulds I have.

They turned out so well that I didn't want to stop at chocolates! So with the mini figure moulds I made candles for the cake, and crayons for the loot bags.



For the candles I just melted some cheap tea lights I had and used some wicks I had left over from a couple of years ago. I tried to dye the wax but the wax just burnt to the bottom of the tin I was using. Probably should have added it a little later. I ended up using a permanent marker and coloured them to match a pirate mini figure.



For the crayons I dug through the crayon box looking for broken crayons of similar colours and melted them together. I made 4 different colours and each kid got 3 crayons.



Since I bought that Shrinky Dink plastic before Christmas for my Advent calendar I've wanted to make key chains. This was the perfect opportunity. I found a website that had the LEGO font and printed out the names of all the kids coming to Seth's birthday party, traced them on to the plastic, and shrunk them in the oven.



For the loot bag I also put together a collection of LEGO colouring pages for a colouring book, added a fun water bottle and a little bag of LEGO candy with a few chocolate toonies.



Since I was going for a pirate LEGO theme I thought it would be fun to do a treasure hunt with the loot bags being the treasure. I drew 10 clues and put them in little LEGO boxes to hide around the yard. My drawing skills are not very good at the best of times, and since I was doing this at 11:00 the night before I wasn't very worried about how they looked! (The kids didn't have any trouble locating the treasure, so they couldn't have been that bad!)



I got the idea for a utensil holder from this blog and made a napkin holder to match!



This is the most effort I have ever put into a birthday party and it actually wasn't that hard. Everything I made was fairly simple, just required a little bit of time, with the exception of the cake. And it turned out so well it deserves it's own post! :)
Stay tuned!

The Caribbean Clipper

Ever since he was a kid my husband has loved LEGO. Recently he has gotten re-excited about it, and now not only him, but our two boys are also avid collectors. Markus dug out all his old LEGO and he and the boys spend hours building fire stations, airplanes, gold mines etc. There is LEGO all over the house. Not even kidding. We even have LEGO Duplo, and Mega Blocks for our 2 year old. And they are all over the house as well, but at least they are easier to pick up. I enjoy LEGO as well, although when I was growing up we didn't have the fancy sets, just the good old fashion blocks, a few windows and doors. This puts me at a bit of a disadvantage, since I'm the one that has to put the garbage truck back together if Seth is having trouble with it and Markus is at work. The last time I tried to fix it I pushed too hard in the wrong spot and the whole thing fell apart. Seth was not impressed.

And ever since Markus was a kid he always wanted to build the LEGO ships. With this new found excitement for LEGO he has decided now is the time to start. Currently we have 2 LEGO ships sitting on the mantle and 4 or 5 (that I know about!) waiting to be assembled. I can't wait to see where he puts the one that is 3 feet long.

Since his birthday was coming up I decided to replicate one of these ships, the LEGO Caribbean Clipper, in to a cake. Looking back I probably could have picked something a little easier, like a LEGO block! It didn't start our very well. I didn't make the fondant sails in time to let them dry properly and so I had to make paper ones. Then getting the icing to stick to the freshly cut, boat hull was another issue. And with Seth leaning over my shoulder saying "I don't know if it is going to work Mom." over and over again until I sent him to bed I was beginning to think the whole thing was going to be a disaster! Luckily it started to come together and in the end it didn't look to bad. I ended up borrowing Seth's canons and ladder from his ship and the soldier mini figures from the Clipper. Sleep is more important then fondant canons to me these days!




Seth critiqued it in the morning and let me know what I was missing. Like the ladder, which he let me borrow. And he really thought there should be stairs for the captain to get up to the steering wheel (there is probably a ship word for that...). I convinced him they were on the inside.







It looked the same...kind of! So I had to make a few modifications! Markus was happy with it, and so were the boys!