Star Wars: The Fondant Strikes Back

As a preface, I just have to say that my wife rocks! She puts a LOT of time and effort into birthday cakes for our children, and I'm continually amazed at how well they turn out. On this one, I had my doubts, but she brought her A-game once again. You're awesome, babe! Here's her sneak peek from a few days ago.

And here's the final product:

Pretty amazing, huh?

You can check out pics for the whole project at Summer's baking blog, including all the details about this cake.

HANS?

On his hilarious blog, my friend, Joel, shared this video. I seriously haven't laughed so hard in a long time!

As you may know, the boys in my house are BIG Star Wars fans, so I've had the opportunity to watch several "bits" of the films. Sadly, I probably couldn't recount the plot any better than this girl did.



Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

...Andrew had a birthday party!

As each guest arrived, we taped a Star Wars character to their back. They had to ask each other only 'yes' or 'no' questions in order to guess who they were. Then they got to wear their character on their front.

Hello, Princess Leia!

To test out our Younglings' shooting skills, each one had a chance to sit in the "pilot seat" to try to hit the space ships.

Once they proved their shooting skills, they were asked to save the Universe by destroying the Death Star. (Bryan painted this Death Star, by the way. Awesome, huh?!)

The next mission was to follow clues to rescue 10 Jedi action figures who were being held captive in various places throughout the house.
Luke Skywalker was freezing until these young Padawans came to the rescue!

For dinner, we had "Pizza the Hutt" and "Yoda Soda".

Logan got pretty upset when Andrew opened his presents: "I don't have any presents in my hands!"

Good thing Nana was there to make it all better!

The Padawans had passed all their tests, so they were presented with balloon "lightsabers." For practice, they were told to use nothing but the Force and their lightsabers to keep a balloon from touching the ground...

...and as you can imagine, all chaos broke loose!

The birthday Boy, in his best Jedi pose!

We ran out of time for the TIE Fighter cakes, so we sent one home with each guest, along with a little Darth Vader backpack ($1.00 at Target!!!), Star Wars goodies, pretzel "lightsabers", and their balloon lightsaber.

Jedi Treats

This year, I wanted to make a Darth Vader cake for Andrew's Star Wars birthday party. Andrew, on the other hand, wanted a Darth Maul cake. Wow! I didn't think I could handle that, so we kept thinking. Finally we agreed on individual mini TIE Fighter cakes.

From Wikipedia: "TIE fighters are fictional starfighters in the Star Wars universe. Propelled by Twin Ion Engines (hence the TIE acronym), TIE fighters are depicted as fast, fragile starfighters produced by Sienar Fleet Systems for the Galactic Empire."

Whew! I feel geekier already!

I made mini bundt cakes and drizzled them in vanilla frosting, then topped each with an Oreo, decorated as the window and piped vanilla frosting stars around the window.
Nana covered graham crackers in chololate and trimmed them to the shape of the wings. The wings were then attached to the ship cockpits with vanilla rolled wafer cookies (Pirouettes).
Look at all the chocolate covered scraps! DARN! Someone's going to have to eat those!
Here's our little fleet of fully edible TIE Fighters. What Jedi wouldn't love to devour one of these?
Nana dipped some pretzels in red and blue chocolate for awesome "lightsabers" for the guests to take home.

Sneak Peak of Andrew's Cakes

May the Force be with me!

My Silly Logan

Logan: "Hey Mom, come take a look at DARTH SILLY!"

P.S. YES, those are UNDERWEAR he's wearing! Day THREE of no accidents! Yay Logan!

Sneak Peek of Logan's Halloween Costume

Can you guess what it is?

Answers to Andrew's Star Wars Challenge

So the answers to Andrew's "Guess the Star Wars Character" are as follows (from left to right).








Top Row: Yoda, Darth Vader, Obi Wan Kenobi



Middle Row: General Grievous, Princess Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Darth Maul

Bottom Row: Storm Trooper, Imperial Guard

Guess That Star Wars Character

Andrew made this little game for me today. I guessed 7 out of 9 correctly. Can you beat me?

I'll post the answers in a few days. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

What did Andrew and Logan BEG me for at Wal-Mart?

CANDY?

TOYS?

Nope.

It was these.

YODA T-shirts!

I'm sensing a pattern here. I think my boys like Star Wars.