Scary Yoda Cake

Baking geeks beware, I too can flood the Internet with images of scary Yoda cakes. As on every May 23rd, we celebrated the birth of my youngest stepson. Bryce is the happy recipient of several Babycakes. Over the years he's seen some of my finest work. Licensed characters are the usual fodder. We've had Bob the Builder (building things out of Little Debbie Cakes and scooping crushed chocolate cookie crumbs), a super-hero camp out (The Flash, Superman, and Batman sitting on Twix logs, toasting mini-marshmallows on toothpicks over a candy-corn fire), SpongeBob Squarepants, Star Wars (Return of the Jedi sandworm scene with the world's ugliest sandworm), and finally Yoda. Ya ya ya ya yoda.

As you can see, I ended up using a hell of a lot of green fondant. The cake itself was peanut butter flavored with chocolate buttercream frosting. I cut a 9 inch round cake to roughly yoda-shaped proportions and used leftover cake bits and fondant balls to build a framework that would form the contours of Yoda's face when draped with a sheet of fondant. I spent about 12 hours trying to figure out how to work with the fondant in sculptural manner. Eventually, I developed a stylized means of depicting the green Jedi master using some handbuilding techniques I'd learned years ago from husband number two, the ceramist.

The birthday boy was pretty pleased. We ate Yoda while listening to the Weird Al "Yoda" (to the tune of the Kinks "Lola"). And fun was had by all.