OK, so let’s start with – if you haven’t seen Star Wars, then you may not truly understand this cake. If you’re a fan of Star Wars (like me) – then I know you’ll appreciate the details that have gone into the overall design and construction of this one. It is the Millennium Falcon flying over Tatooine – the desert planet where the Star Wars movies first began. I felt like this cake deserved a post of its own – so you can see the amount of work and effort that went into it. A cake sometimes goes beyond just a cake. This is one such creation.
This isn’t a step-by-step tutorial on how to make one of these. It is just an overview of some of the tools/hardware that went into it. I had to put on my tradie hat for this one and design the structure myself. I started by first getting the blueprints for the MF. This helped me figure out the size of the cakeboard that I would need and I went from there in tracing the shape and cutting out the cakeboard. In my case, the cake was a 10″ round for the main part of the body. Other components were built up using Rice Krispie Treats and cake offcuts mixed with buttercream.
The tools I used to complete the project:
- Jigsaw – with blades suitable for wood and metal
- Electric drill – with drill bits suitable for wood and metal (2mm & 8mm bit sizes)
- Spanner set
- Hot glue gun
- Hacksaw – with blade suitable for metal
- Airbrush
- General cake modeling tools
The hardware/packaging that went into it:
- 16″ x 12″ masonite cake board
- 20″ x 16″ masonite cake board
- 2x 10″ cake cardboard rounds
- 20″ x 16″ cake box
- 3x 6″ x 6″ squares of 1.55mm galvanised steel sheet
- 8mm stainless steel threaded rod (length is determined by how high you want the MF to fly off the ground – I went with about 40cm)
- 4x 8mm stainless steel lock nuts
- 1x 8mm stainless steel flat washer
- 12x 25mm round self-adhesive felt floor pads – stacked in 3s and hot glued to the underside of the cakeboard to raise it high enough so the threaded rod doesn’t touch the table.
- String of Blue LED fairy lights, button battery powered (I went with 40 lights/4m) – I adhered them onto a cut strip of cakebox cardboard using sticky tape.
The cake itself was a 10″ round red velvet, filled with vanilla bean cheesecake flavoured buttercream. Covered with white chocolate ganache and fondant. I used a mix of crushed Scotch Finger and Gingernut biscuits to create the dessert sand (that wasn’t a typo, I mean to type dessert 😉 ).