Unless you've been living under a rock, on a different planet - you'll know that it's Star Wars time!
In preparation for the new movie, we invited some friends around for a Star Wars marathon (the original 3, of course)
And what's a party without cake? Nothing. That's what. A party without cake is not a party in my book.
So I decided to make an alien cake - a Star Wars alien cake I hear you ask? No. Just a regular, good old fashioned alien cake, because... hell, I don't need a reason.
To go with the alien theme, I decided to put gummy bears in the icing. Because aliens are weird, and gummy bears in cake are weird. Also, gummy bears in cake could only ever be a good idea.
First, I had to chop up the unfortunate gummy bears (I didn't want them still alive when I dumped them in the icing)
Then I mixed them up into some cream cheese frosting (coloured red of course - alien blood!). The cake itself is just your standard vanilla sponge, coloured green since that's the colour of alien flesh.
Finally, I finished off the cake with some green cream cheese frosting and some chocolate ganache for the eyes and mouth.
Voila! A perfectly average cake. Sure to make you're friends say, "That's cool, but... it's not very Star Wars is it?"
Easy to make score: 4/5
The hardest part of making this cake was getting the icing flat and making sure the eyes were symmetrical (I used a toothpick to draw them on first)
Wow score: 3/5
Igby the intergalactic space alien (as I've taken to calling him) got a decent response. It was mentioned that he's not very... Star Wars. But really, who cares about that when you have cake?
I certainly don't.
