Star Wars Cake!

You've seen the cute Minnie Deviled Eggs, and the cute Mickey & Minnie Cookies along with the Disney Themed Dessert Table, but have you seen the Star Wars Cake?  When my sister came into the kitchen, she couldn't believe her eyes.  Come to the dark side and you'll see just what I'm talking about.

Star Wars Cake

When I found Star Wars drip cakes on Pinterest, I knew I wanted to recreate a version of my own.

LOVE. IT.

Come to the dark side. You'll be sooooo glad you did! The dark side of this cake included chocolate cake, chocolate ganache and layers of chocolate candy melts and chocolate toppers. 

I made the space ship cake toppers out of melted candy melts (use white with a touch of black to get the grey).

Poured it into the molds, froze and removed.

Whew, they were done and set aside.

Then I waited a bit more to get up the courage to make the cake.

And I had a black glass cake stand, to support the galaxy.

It was a showstopper.

And I loved the little X-Wing Fighters.

That's what they are, right?

I'm pretty sure this is the Millennium Falcon.

I really planned to make a tutorial, but I was concentrating so hard on not messing up, I didn't take many photos.

Here's what I've got.

I started by making the pieces to stick out of the cake, from blue and black candy melts.

First I poured the melted blue candy melts across the counter on wax paper.

I topped the blue with a few globs of black candy melts and spread together, being careful not to totally mix.

Then I sprinkled the sheet of candy melts with silver dragees, edible stars and edible glitter dust.

After the sheet of candy melts hardened, I broke it apart and set aside.

I baked the cakes (several cakes because they kept sinking).

Stacked two and frosted with the best chocolate frosting.

Then I mixed white buttercream with blue food color and covered the chocolate frosting.

Added a few globs of black buttercream to the top of the blue frosting and spread together.

Added more silver sparkles.

At this point, I was tired I took a break, put the cake in the frig.

While the cake was in the frig and I was done with my break, I made a chocolate ganache.

Recipe HERE.

I colored the chocolate ganache using black candy color.

NOT black food color, black candy color!

Let it cool, not to thick, or not too thin...just right.

Then it was ready to pour.  Or maybe I should say until I was ready to pour.

I poured the black ganache in the middle and spread it to the edge and over.

Let it drip a little at a time.

Now you know why I got too tried to take photos, right?

I broke apart the sheet of blue/black candy melts and stuck it into the cake.

Added a stick/toothpick to the back of the candy space ships with a dab of candy melts.

Stuck them into the cake and the galaxy was complete.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I'll be happy to help.

Ready to be served...

With cups for coffee and glasses ready to be filled with galactic beverages.

On it's on little counter.

I used the mold again, this time to make Millennium Falcon Ice Cubes.

I put a drop of blue food coloring in the bottom of each glass.

When the guests arrived, I filled it with the Falcon ice cube and 7-Up.

Which bubbled when I first poured it on, so cool!

And for the cake...

It was out of this world delicious!

May the Force be With You!