#star wars cake
On the 7th day before Christmas my oven baked for me, a gingerbread man cake!
I decided last minute to decorate this cake like Chewbacca. I was going to do a cross stitch traditional design but then I added a little Star Wars flair to it.
| Recipe |
• Gingerbread Cake
4 oz Butter
½ Cup Brown Sugar
1 Egg
½ Cup Milk
½ Cup Molasses
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/3 Cup Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp Baking Soda
¼ tsp Salt
2 tsp Cinnamon
½ tsp Ginger
½ tsp Nutmeg
¼ tsp Clove
¼ tsp All-Spice
Bake at 350º for 20 - 30 minutes
• Buttercream
6 oz Butter
6 - 8 Cups Powdered Sugar
¼ Cup Milk or Heavy Whipping Cream
2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
Anakin smiling over his work. He’s very proud.
The bigger picture:
More bodies on the inside layer. There are youngling bodies in every bite!
Conversations I had with my sister while making this cake:
*As my sister is cutting up the sour patch kid bodies:*
Me: Technically, Anakin didn’t kill these younglings, we did.
My sister: We’re going to frame him.
Me: AU Where Anakin doesn’t kill the younglings, he’s framed and Obi-Wan believes it and still sets him on fire.
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My sister as she’s cutting the sour patch kid bodies: I really love the diagonal cut ones. It just makes it seem so much more violent.
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My sister as we’re putting the bodies on the cake: “We gotta keep the bodies together, otherwise it doesn’t look enough like a crime scene and looks more like Anakin is just really obsessed with candy.”
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My other sister when she comes home and sees what we’ve done: Why is it chocolate?
Me: Because I couldn’t find the dye. Otherwise it would’ve been a vanilla cake and I would’ve dyed it red. Like blood.
Cake helping-sister: But there is no blood, they’re cauterized.
Me: It’s symbolic.
Cake helping sister: Cauterization is not symbolic.
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*as we’re putting lego Anakin on the cake*
My sister: How could you do it Anakin??? Why did you do it???? (in her best Anakin imitation voice) no, I was framed!!! (normal voice) Shut up Anakin, you’re standing in the evidence!!!!
