Alex had a Lego party for his 9th birthday. Derek suggested making a Lego brick for the cake but I quickly dismissed that suggestion since it did not seem like a challenge. Alex provided me with this figure as inspiration for the cake. So I went for it and think it turned out all right.
Step 1: You need: 2 boxed cake mixes, frosting dye, and 5 large containers of frosting. No, I don’t even consider making my own frosting.
Step 2 – Place both cakes side by side and then carve out the general Lego man shape. Follow up with an initial layer of frosting. Place the cake in the fridge – it’s easier to put the next layer of frosting if the first layer is more solid.
Step 3 – Create the bodysuit? armor? training clothes? with orange icing. I used clear icing bags and a basic frosting tip for the rest of the icing.
Step 4 – Use gray icing for the equipment and part of helmet. I started questioning my cake decorating abilities at about this point – hmmm… 2 hours till the party, I wonder if the grocery store could make a lego brick cake in such short notice?
Step 5 – Using a wider icing tip I created the white sections of the helmet
Step 6 – The first attempt at making “Lego skin” was too pink (very bad in the eyes of a 9 year old boy) so I tried again and got a brown color. Good enough.
Step 7 – I added the black icing sections.
Step 8 – I added the red sections and called it done.
There were certain parts of the cake I wasn’t thrilled with but Alex was excited with the cake and that’s all that counts in the long run.
Another great cake! Bravo! :o)
The Lego brick would have been challenging for me…
Another job well done!
you make such great cakes…i would like an exact replica of me for my next birthday!! Haha 🙂
That looks awesome (and delicious!), great job Jen!
Way impressed.
That’s so impressive! Congrats – I’m glad Alex enjoyed it!
O man, Kate’s birthday just happend, if I had known about this….
It turned out SO cute! (found you from It’s FUN to craft!)
Very, very cute!
You did such a great job! What a fun cake … I’m sure it was a hit!
That is sooooo cute, love it!
I LOVE this! I have 4 boys, and one of them is a Lego/Star Wars fanatic! I’m going to have to bookmark this one and save the idea for his birthday! Thanks for sharing. Also, would you mind if I featured this post over on my blog? Please let me know. 🙂
Thanks,
Amy @ The Happy Scraps