Death Star

Death Star

This Death Star cake is sure to impress the Star Wars fans in your life.

May the 4th be with you!

I admit it, I am a complete Star Wars nerd!  I fell in love with it back when I was a kid and enjoy it just as much today. It is one movie collection I can watch over and over and never tire of.

Naturally I had to introduce it to my son and he is now a hard core fan.

As does his Star Wars Lego collection and my empty wallet attest to.

He will spend countless hours building huge Star Wars landscapes and scenes for the amazingly intricate ships he builds. His building skills are very impressive, and I really should capture more of what he creates on film.

I wanted to flex my creative muscles and see what I could come up with using a Star Wars theme for his birthday a few years back.

Death Star Cake

Wanting to do a decent job I decided that perhaps the Death Star was the way to go.

Easily done with a ball pan, the design fairly simple, I whipped up some batter and some fondant and gave it my best!

Now it could have been much more detailed, and if I were to do another, there would be some changes. Though for a bunch of 9-year old’s I got 2 thumbs up!

Death Star

Death Star
 
Recipe type: Dessert
Ingredients
  • 1 bag of mini marshmallows
  • 2 tsp of flavoring of your choice
  • 2 tbsp of water
  • 2 pounds of icing sugar (approx. 7 cups)
  • gel food coloring
  • shortening
  • 1 cup of icing sugar mixed with 1 cup of cornstarch
Instructions
  1. Grease a large bowl or measuring cup.
  2. Place marshmallows, flavoring and water in greased bowl.
  3. Microwave on high for 1 minute.
  4. Stir, if not completely melted microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring in between until melted.
  5. Place the icing sugar into a large mixing bowl.
  6. Pour melted marshmallows over sugar and using an electric mixer with the dough hook, mix on low speed until half of the icing sugar is incorporated.
  7. Turn up speed a bit and incorporate as much of the remaing sugar as possible.
  8. The mixture will be stiff.
  9. Turn out onto a surface dusted with the icing sugar/cornstarch mixture.
  10. Knead fondant until it has a smooth texture.
  11. If it is sticky knead in more icing sugar.
  12. Once the fondant is smooth, lightly coat with shortening and wrap tightly in plastic wrap and let rest for one hour.
  13. After one hour you can color your fondant.
  14. Using a clean toothpick, add the gel coloring to the fondant.
  15. To keep you hands clean wear gloves or grease your hands with shortening.
  16. Knead the color into the fondant.
  17. It is easier to split the fondant into 3 or 4 pieces to do this part and then knead them together once you have acheived the color you want.
  18. If at anytime the fondant becomes sticky, dust with the cornstarch/icing sugar mixture.
  19. If your fondant is very stiff you can microwave it for 10 second shots to soften it for easier kneading. Keep fondant wrapped in plastic.
  20. Roll out to desired size for your cake.

A bit of work and so worth it, it tastes wonderful, unlike store bought fondant.

Published by Redawna

Garden & Food Writer/Educator/Photographer. NFT artist. Management Professional. Community Builder. Entrepreneurial spirit.

8 Replies on “Death Star

  1. My daughter’s birthday is on Starwars day (as it’s now known in our family) – she’s a fan. Too late for me to make this cake but bookmarked for next year. Thanks for the inspiration.

    1. Happy Birthday wishes to her! I hope she has a fantastic day!

      It was a fun cake to make!
      And once I had a plan it was quite easy!

      As always, it is fabulous seeing you!!

      Thanks for stopping by Sally!

  2. Awesome cake! Jayne recently recreated a light saber duel on that planet with all the lava, it looked really good. Your son and mine should get together with their Lego creations some time! LOL.

    1. Hey Dave!!!

      Jayne’s cake sounds fantastic!
      A Lego Throwdown with the boys sounds good!
      I’ll bring the beer!

      Thanks for stopping by!

    1. Thanks Rebecca!
      My son and all his friends really got a kickout of it.

      Thanks for stopping by.

  3. This is fantastic Redawna! I’m a huge fan myself and would have loved something like this for my bday! ?

    1. Hey Bryce!!

      I was very pleased with how it turned out! As was the birthday boy!
      I wanted to do something Star Wars style and this was what I came up with.

      Thanks for stopping in!

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