The final touch to Matt's Star Wars Birthday Extravaganza was his surprise Han Solo cake. I debated for a long time How I was going to attempt it. First it was a very simple. Submerge Han Solo in cake and frost it. Then I decided that wasn't good enough, and started researching others who had paved this path before me. Since modeling fondant is uber expensive and I had to create this in 2 days, lol...I went the rice crispy treat method!!
Froze it, then wrapped it in fondant, giving texture to pants. Made a little vest, some minor textures to face with eyes, nose, mouth, hair etc.
His hands were made with fondant and frozen. It was a lot easier to deal with than I thought it would be. It was actually kind of fun. Like play dough lol.
Then I dug a little valley down the middle and placed him in...We ended up making 2 cakes, and pieced it together as one. It's about a cake and a 3rd long =). (Made in a 9x13 pan for both)
Then frost!! I made grey frosting...which is more of a pain in the butt than you might think. The insanely expensive "black" stuff we got to dye the frosting, ended up a lovely shade of lavender...Needless to say I was REALLY ANNOYED. At the last minute we actually went to the local grocery store and bought a tube of black frosting intended for writing words or details on a cake. And wahlah!! Grey cake frosting. Easy Peasy...mostly lol.
Happy crafting!!
Cher
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