Derek’s birthday party theme is Star Wars. His cake is R2D2. I looked up other cakes online to get some ideas that other people have done. For a couple days I thought I would make a stand up R2D2, but then I would have to borrow a few round pans and make a LOT of cake. (probably 6) I worried about the fondant sticking to the upright cake.
This was my 2nd time working with fondant so I decided to stick with a flat cake.
First I measured the 2 pans I have and made the paper the same size.
Then I drew the R2D2 to the size I would make it. I only made 1 leg and would do it twice.
I baked 2 cakes. Derek chose white cake with rainbow colored sprinkles inside.
Here are the baked cakes with the cut out pictures before I cut.
I cut everything out. Because the pan on the left was smaller, the cake came out thicker. The two legs are higher than the center body.
I used a thick thread to slice through the legs using the middle section as my height guide.
I rolled out the fondant. I bought a 5 lb. box and ended up only using 1 of the 2 bags in the box.
I rolled it out using powdered sugar on the counter and on the rolling pin. I used the small knife to do the cutting.
After laying the fondant over the pieces of cake you mold it down the sides and cut the leftover off the ends and sides.
I did the middle first. I moved each leg off the tray (which is a foil covered cookie sheet) and then covered the legs and moved them back onto the tray.
All of the scraps were used to make the additional squares, circles & rectangles.
I wet the pieces (they dried out quick) and that helped to smooth out the edges and glue them down onto the cake.
I used powdered sprinkle color. The instructions were to wet the area with water and sprinkle on. However I needed detailed areas and it was too messy. First I started mixing the powder with water to make “watercolors” then tried using coconut rum (shhh don’t tell the parents) so that the alcohol would dry faster than the water. (nope I didn’t drink any… too much to do…) This was the blue and the red.
Derek helped with the sliver strips on the legs and the half circles. We did the wetting & sprinkling for those parts. Also on the silver top part.
I also did the gold circle that way. It turned out pretty, like glitter.
I found some Cookie Decorating markers and that is what I used for the green, the purple stripes, the yellow ring around the blue and finally for writing Derek’s name and new age.
Keeping with our Star Wars theme for Derek’s birthday party we are making our own piñata.
It will be a great craft project – learning paper mache. And it will be cheap!
We tore up a few pages of newspaper.
It was fun to show the kids how they will rip straight down! Derek discovered he could rip several pages folded in half.
(We made wayyy toooo much! But I didn’t know and we had a lot of fun ripping!)
This is an old beach ball that had holes in it. We taped it up to keep the air in.
I made paste out of flour and water.
We did this project outside!
Here is our first coat.
The paste made a huge mess. Unfortunately mom wasn’t so fun in the middle of this project when they were dripping the paste all over the table, the ground their feet, arms & clothes.
It took some scrubbing to get it off the table and our hands. Thank goodness we did this outside.
I used a strainer as the prop. It was wide enough for the ball and air could circulate to dry it.
The next morning I set it out to dry in the sun. We left for church and came home to a very dry ball with a huge crack. The air in the beach ball expanded in the heat and broke it open. My husband thought I would be disappointed. It worked out fine. I was able to deflate the beach ball and pull it out. Then I filled it with candy. I inserted a coat hanger that I folded up and left the hanger part out. Then I taped over the crack and started another coat of newspaper.
This time I did it using watered down elmer’s school glue. This made a much easier process, much cleaner and the results were MUCH more smooth. I did 2 more layers. Each layer took about half and hour to do and I left it to dry overnight.
On to painting.
Our house is a greyish color and the perfect color for the death star.
Here is Derek painting.
Hanging up for the paint to dry.
I used a Sharpie to draw in the details.
READY TO PARTY !
Celebrating Moxie's birthday. 
Doggie Ice Cream! Peanut butter flavor
Cake for the people! The kids have to have the frosting off the candles first.
