The cake was for approximately 15 people and she wanted chocolate and vanilla for the flavor. I started by making a layer of vanilla cake with orange juice and then made a layer of chocolate cake with orange juice. Between the layers of chocolate and vanilla I filled in with my homemade buttercream, extra whipped to make it very fluffy. I topped the cake with the buttercream and smoothed it out as much as possible, rotating the cake on my new turntable. It worked out perfectly! With this cake I wanted to do something different for the color. Since we were still going with a simple cake, focusing more on the Yoda, I airbrushed the cake with silver food coloring to make the cake look very galaxy-like. After airbrushing the cake silver, I piped some white stars in icing all over the cake. I then used a green type gel on the cake to write "Happy Birthday Dad!" It was definitely interesting writing "Happy Birthday Dad," for someone on a cake that wasn't my dad, and it made me giggle to myself a little; just an interesting tid-bit I thought I would share :) I outlined the green sparkly gel in white icing so it would stay together a little easier. I spent the rest of my time making the edible Yoda figuring out of fondant. I used chocolate fondant and buttercream fondant that I colored with food coloring.
Since this cake was being picked up by my new customer and I wasn't dropping it off, I was able to use my new "Reese's Cakes By Design" stickers on a traveling box! This was very exciting for me! I put some toothpicks in the Yoda to hold him onto the cake while in travel.
Enjoy :)
