Lego Landspeeder Cake

A friend called me to invite my son to her son's birthday party, while we were on the phone she was listing all of the stuff that she had to do yet for the party and since I had just thrown a Lego themed birthday party for my 7yr old I was willing to give her all of the help and resources that I had already found. Then she mentioned that she was just going to go to the store and order a cake. ~Wait!?! What!?!~  The last time I ordered a store cake my then 2 yr old pulled the firetruck off of it, licked the icing off the wheel and that was the last time we've ever seen that wheel! If we're lucky it's passed through him by now (he just turned 7) but I'm not willing to bet on that.

So I volunteered (OK honestly I insisted) that I be allowed to make the birthday cake. PLEASE!!!!!!!! She relented, probably happy to have one more thing checked off of her ever growing to-do list. After finding out that I'm not willing to make a cake with 100 storm troopers on it (I was pushing for the Death Star), the birthday boy, mom and I decided on a Lego Landspeeder. Because just like my 7yr old he's infatuated with the Wii Lego games and he's currently playing the Star Wars game.

It started with the basic shape. I used a square pan and just kept cutting until I got the shape I was happy with. I will admit I did bribe my son to rebuild his Landspeeder so that I had a 3D model to work from.

 

Then the dots. Lots of dots. I rolled out fondant. Then I used a straw that I cut down dipped in powdered sugar and then just started making lots of little tiny circles. There was only about a 60% success rate of getting them out of the straw still in the shape of a circle. So if you try this method be prepared to use all of your patience up in this step.

Next came the fun task of putting it together. After cutting out all of the dots the fondant had pretty much dried to rock hard. So I used my handy dandy pizza cutter (normally I use the dull side of a butter knife) to make the individual Lego block impressions. I then rolled out the sides and attached those with pretzel sticks to hold the engines on. And my dear sweet husband made the figures, Luke, Obi-Wan, R2-D2, C-3PO and a Jawa. 

Close up of some of the guys.  

Here is a side by side comparison of the actual with the cake. The Lego Luke and the Fondant Luke are sitting together. 

Here is the actual finished cake. I used crushed up Nilla waffers and Choc animal crackers for the sand and jelly bean rock candies. 

Cruising on Tatooine in Luke's landspeeder. 

 This cake even comes with a Lego instruction manual, and the best part? The book is edible for those who choose not to read the book. 

Thanks for getting this far.....