For his birthday, my son wanted a cake with a 'Star Wars' theme. Due to health reasons, I unfortunately couldn't make it myself, but my dear friends stepped in. Here is the wonderful Star Wars cake:
Star Wars themed cake for children's birthday
Ingredients
- 130 g butter
- 110 g powdered sugar
- 6 egg yolks
- 6 egg whites
- 130 g chocolate
- 130 g flour
- 110 g sugar
- 6 tbsp apricot jam
- approx. 500 g fondant, white
- Powdered sugar
- 3 different food colorings, orange, yellow, blue (I used the gel colors from allestorte.at): Gel color set)
- Decorative plastic Star Wars swords
- 2 Star Wars figures, approx. 10 cm tall, plastic
- Baking pan 26 cm, or square
- Fondant cutters: star, letters
- Fondant tool, round
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) top and bottom heat, grease the baking pan with butter, and dust with flour. Beat the egg whites until stiff, then add the sugar and continue beating until it becomes a glossy mixture. Warm the butter until lukewarm and cream it with the powdered sugar. Gradually add the egg yolks and mix well. Melt the chocolate in the microwave or in a water bath and add it to the egg yolk mixture. Now fold in the beaten egg whites and mix well. Finally, add the flour and mix everything into a batter. Pour the entire mixture into the baking pan and bake at 180°C for approx. 1 hour.
Extra tip: If the batter has domed a little while baking, simply turn the cake onto a plate while it is still warm; this will make everything nice and smooth again. Let the cake cool down completely.
Optional: Cut the cake horizontally with a knife. Heat the jam in a water bath and spread it on one half of the cake. Put the cake back together.
Coat the entire outside of the cake with the apricot jam.
Dust the rolling pin and the work surface repeatedly with a little powdered sugar, otherwise the fondant will stick just like normal dough. I used a normal rolling pin, but there are special fondant rollers
First, color the majority of the white fondant blue and roll it out. Place this over the cake. You can use the rolling pin to help here; simply roll a part of the fondant onto the rolling pin and then unroll it onto the cake. Let a little bit hang over the bottom edge, as the edge can be decorated with semicircles using a fondant tool (or a small round cutter!).
Color a small part yellow, roll it out thinly, and cut out stars. Color another part orange and cut out the child's name and age using cutters. Stick the cut-out fondant shapes onto the cake with a little water. With the remaining orange fondant, I created 2 small pedestals for the Star Wars figures so they have better stability. Finally, just stick the decorative swords into the cake and little Jedi knights can celebrate a birthday.
Photo by Sabine, meinhaushalt.at, cake by Maria, Beate and Daniela
