Star Wars Cupcakes!!!

For my friends' son's birthday, they requested that I make Star Wars cupcakes, so this it what I came up with! Unfortunately, darker colors don't show up so well when taking a photo, so Darth Vader seems like just a black cupcake. The details on R2D2 & Chewbacca aren't quite as noticable in the photo either. The cupcakes are (from left to right) Queen Amidala, Darth Maul, Jawa, Luke (in his pilot helmet), Chewbacca, (next row) Yoda, Storm Trooper, Cad Bane, Bobba Fett, R2D2, (last row) Darth Vader, C3PO, Princess Leia and Anakin.

I chose to model them off of the LEGO Star Wars characters, because their son's favorite video game (you guessed it) is LEGO Star Wars! Hehe!

Getting Creative

One thing I learned while making and designing cakes it that not every character, animal or thing has a pan. I've had to learn to improvise and use what I have to create something else. Here are a few of my favorites...

Using the Wilton Spaceship pan I've created a few different cakes;

Combining it with half of a small oval cake I created Toothless aka Night Fury from How to Train Your Dragon:

The pan was also perfect when I created an overhead shot of an X-Wing from Star Wars:

Another one of my favorites was another Star Wars cake. I use the Darth Vader pan:

I ended up making one of Darth's Imperial Guards:

I love going through pictures of my cake pan collection and just imagining which characters, animals, or other things I can create. I've learned that my pans can have so much more value when I think outside the box. I will probably post another blog entry on this same subject, because I've done this are even more occasions and I plan on doing it much more. If you're in need of help trying to figure out how you can make a cake you don't have an pan for, let me know and I may be able to help!