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    Home › Recipes › BB-8 Star Wars Cake

    BB-8 Star Wars Cake

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    When Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out, Walt Disney Studios Canada gave me the opportunity of a lifetime. They lent me a BB-8 to cake! Although my version is chocolate cake, fondant, and modeling chocolate it felt as difficult as jedi training! Ok. Maybe not that difficult, but BB-8 is definitely one of the most challenging cakes Ive ever made. So much pressure!

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    Baking The Cake:

    • 10lbs of Yo's Ultimate Chocolate Cake

    Icing The Cake:

    • Italian Meringue Buttercream
    • Simple Syrup
    • Icing Sugar
    • Royal Icing

    Decorating The Cake

    • ½ recipe of Modeling Chocolate
    • 4 oz Gumpaste
    • 2oz Melted Dark Chocolate
    • 3 lbs White Fondant
    • 4oz White Fondant
    • 1oz Black Fondant
    • Sunset Orange gel Colour
    • Clear Piping Gel
    • Silver Highlighter
    • Buttercup Yellow Icing Colour
    • Ivory Icing Colour
    • Black Icing Colour
    • Teal Icing Colour
    • White White Icing Colour
    • Color Right Base Black
    • Color Right Base Brown
    • Black Pearl Lustre
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    5" half sphere pan Add to Cart -
    Serrated Knife Add to Cart -
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    #12 round piping tip Add to Cart - $119.99
    #9 round piping tip Add to Cart - $119.99
    PME Cutting Wheel Modeling Tool Add to Cart - $64.99
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    Non-stick Board Add to Cart - $16.99
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    5x ¼” wooden dowels Add to Cart -
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    Prepare Cake Batter

    Prepare your chocolate cake batter. Divide the batter amongst three pans. Pour 4 lbs of batter into each 8 bowl, and 1 lbs into the 5 half sphere pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes (Half Sphere Pan), and 1 hour and 30 minutes (8 bowls), or until a cake tester comes out completely clean. Let cool completely in their pans. 


    Prepare Buttercream

    Prepare your Italian Meringue Buttercream. Dye 1 cup of your buttercream with Buttercup Yellow, Ivory, and Sunset Orange to match the orange colour of BB-8. 


    Prepare Modelling Chocolate

    Prepare your recipe of modelling chocolate. Set aside. 


    Prepare Royal Icing

    Prepare your batch of royal icing. Set aside. 


    Level Cakes

    Level your cakes while they are still in their pans. Cut off the top humps by running your serrated knife along the top edge of the bowls. Remove the cakes from their bowls.


    Simple Syrup the Cakes

    Soak your cakes with Simple Syrup. Use a small spatula to spread melted chocolate over any areas that may need to be patched. 


    Flip, Carve, and Ice the Cakes

    Flip one of the cakes over, so that the flat side is down, cut off a little bit of the curve at the top, to create a flat surface for your cake board. Glue down the cake board with melted chocolate, and ice a rim of chocolate around the outside edge of the board. Repeat this process to glue your 5 half sphere cake to the 5 cake board. 


    Crumb Coat and Chill Cakes!

    Add a layer of orange buttercream to the 8 cake with the board on the bottom. Place the other 8 cake on top to create a full sphere. Crumb coat the 8 cake, and 5 half sphere. Chill for 15 minutes. 


    Ice Cakes Again

    Ice both cakes again, and chill for 30 minutes. Once chilled, wet your hands and use your fingertips to rub out any ridges in the buttercream.  


    Roll Fondant and Cover Cake

    Roll out your white fondant, and cover your cakes. Use a ball of the same fondant to smooth the surface of your sphere cakes. 


    Dye Modelling Chocolate

    Dye your modeling chocolate to suit BB-8. Knead in Buttercup Yellow, Ivory, and some Sunset Orange. Set aside. 


    Roll Out Fondant

    Weigh out 3oz of white fondant and knead in a little black food colouring. You want to end up with a medium grey fondant. Pinch in some CMC to soften the fondant. Set aside. Roll out the fondant, and the modelling chocolate into sheets that are 1/16 thin. Chill in the fridge. 


    Dye More Fondant

    Dye your remaining 1 oz of white fondant using teal and black, this will be used for the detail around BB 8s eye.


    Cut Out Circle Templates

    Cut out 6 parchment circles to place on BBs body, these circles are the same diameter as his head. Pin each parchment circle in place. Use templates to cut out every single detail, use a cutting wheel and circle cutter to make indentations. Apply the orange circles to BB-8s body. 


    Add Details to BB-8

    Use your cutting wheel tool to make all the indentations found on the white surface of BBs body.


    Apply Silver Highlighter

    Use a dry brush to apply silver highlighter to the surface of each to your grey fondant detail. Then apply them to the cake with piping gel. 


    Shape Fondant

    Take a 1 tablespoon that is very rounded, and press black fondant into it. After letting them set, cut off the excess flush to the spoon, and remove from the spoon.


    Roll Out Modelling Chocolate and Fondant for BB-8s Head

    For BB-8s head, roll out orange modeling chocolate and grey fondant. Use an onion mincer to roll over long pieces of fondant and cut 5 even stripes. Use the same technique to recreate the details on BBs face. 


    Create BB-8s Antenna

    Use gumpaste on a floral wire to recreate his antenna, and use bamboo skewers to help secure his heavy little eyes.


    Add Extra Detail to BB-8

    Roll out tiny pieces of yellow, light blue, royal blue, red and white fondant to add extra detail on BB-8.


    Congratulations!

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