How To Make A Millennium Falcon Cake

A Star Wars Millenium Falcon Cake with X-Wing Cupcakes to accompany it!

Prep Fourth dimension: 4 hours

Cook Fourth dimension: 1 hr, 25 minutes

I'g so excited by this Millenium Falcon Cake….and I'm not really into Star Wars! (and my husband enjoyed getting geeky and putting the star backgrounds in to the photos).

A proficient friend and colleague is moving on to a new job this week then I was asked to make him a Goodbye cake, and the request was for it to exist a Star Wars themed block.

I had a lot of different ideas simply when I saw this mould at Lakeland, I knew this was what I needed to practice. The only thing about it was that information technology looked similar you couldn't really frost/water ice it in the usual manner as you would lose all the definition. The motion-picture show on the website looked like it was sprayed with edible silver spray. That'southward fine, but it meant that the block had to be moist enough and tasty enough to stand on it's ain without a frosting. The box also said it required a six egg recipe.

And then I got looking for cakes without frosting and I came across this 3 egg Ginger cake recipe. Perfect – I only doubled it! This gave me plenty of cake mixture (plus enough for vi muffins!) and it tastes really practiced.

Ingredients for the block:

• 500ml oatmeal stout or Guinness Stout
• 450g black treacle
• 1 teaspoon blistering soda
• 560g obviously flour
• 3 teaspoons blistering powder
• 4 tablespoons footing ginger
• 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ane/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• Pinch of footing cardamom
• vi large eggs
• 440g dark brown sugar
• 400g granulated sugar
• 336g vegetable oil

Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°C.
• Generously spray the can with cake release spray
• Bring stout and molasses to a eddy in a large saucepan and remove from heat.
• Whisk in baking soda, so cool to room temperature.
• Sift together flour, baking pulverization, and spices in a large basin.
• Whisk together eggs and sugars.
• Whisk in oil, then molasses mixture.
• Add to flour mixture and whisk until just combined.
• Pour batter into mould
• Bake in middle of oven. I tested mine every xx minutes and I believe it actually took around 85 minutes! (I did have to protect the smaller cease with some foil half style through baking as it cooked quicker than the fuller end.

Leave the cake to cool slightly before slowly and gently releasing it!

I had no trouble with getting the cake out of the mould.

Once cooled (I left information technology overnight) I got to work on decorating information technology…

Base Colour: I sprayed the cake using an edible silver spray paint. This worked well and you can build up the color.

Fondant shapes: To get the correct colour I mixed some black gel colouring into some white fondant until information technology was grey. I so rolled it out thinly and pressed it into the inside of the mould. This then gave me the indents to match what was on the cake. With a sharp pocketknife I cut the shapes out and placed them into the block. I used a chip of water to stick some of it on, but the silver spray acted as a adept glue!

Satellite dish: Every bit this had to stand up I used some flower paste. Again – I coloured information technology grey and moulded it effectually a measuring spoon to keep its shape. Once dried (and hard) I placed it onto the cake.

I looked up photos of the Millennium Falcon and there were some scarlet panels which I added by brushing on some ruby nutrient colouring.

I used the moving picture on the box to the mould as a guide to the decorating but used my imagination and added quite a bit more. I recall information technology took me effectually iv hours which isn't too bad!

For the cupcakes I merely used my chocolate and foam recipe. I tried to brand the foam topping a really night blue/black but afterwards putting a reasonable amount of colouring in information technology just went grey and after the last disaster of trying to make black frosting I decided just to stick with grey!

For the X-Wings I got an ice cube tray! These are so easy to use for moulding cake toppers! Originally I wanted to make them out of processed melts merely I ran out of time to get them so I just used the fondant. I pressed the fondant in hard to make sure it got into all the spaces and so popped information technology into the freezer to harden up. This makes it easier to get them out of the tray. I used a sharp knife to cut around the edges and neaten them up and and so left them to dry before placing them on the cakes.

Overall I'chiliad really impressed with this…and I think the Star Wars fans in the office were also!

You lot'll exist missed, simply May the Strength be with you James!

Rach x

Source: https://www.sundaybaking.co.uk/2014/06/06/star-wars-millennium-falcon-x-wing-cakes/

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