This cake was for my son’s 5th birthday party. He was big into Star Wars so we had a Jedi Training Camp with Jedi Robes, Light sabers and the R2D2 Cake. We even had chocolate dipped light saber pretzel sticks and a death star pinata.The birthday was time consuming but well worth it.

To build the R2D2 cake, I used a 6 in round cake pan to stack up the center part of the structure with a bowl cake on top. The side pieces were carved from a sheet cake. The entire cake was frosted with butter cream and  the accessories were made with homemade marshmallow fondant (recipe on the Lego Cake post).

May The Force Be With You!

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This is the biggest, most thought out cake I have made yet. I made this Triceratops cake for my son’s third birthday party. When he saw it for the first time his eye got so big (almost as big as the triceratops eyes). It took about 4 – 8in round cakes and several other odd shaped cakes (mini bundt for the feet and snout and 6 in round for the tapering face). I used three sugar cones for the horns and fondant for the eyes. The entire thing was frosted in butter cream using a star tip ( a little time consuming, but I mostly prefer the butter cream if possible). I regret that I do not have the specific sizes of the cakes and how I constructed it but it was a few years ago. If I recreated it again, I would just have to determine the sizes that would work well together. That is part of the fun of baking 3D cakes.

My son loved dinosaurs at that time and I will never forget how excited he was to see that cake. Seeing his face was like a present for me on his birthday.

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