Luke Skywalker angry birds cake

Once again another challenge from my nephew. He asked me for an Angry birds star wars cake. At first I was going to make lots of small angry birds and some sort of structure to put them on but that meant there wasn't much actual cake involved. Instead I decided to make one big angry bird. I went for Brandon's favourite Luke Skywalker. Again I had to use my hemisphere cake tin and I made chocolate cake as that always goes down well at kids parties. I pasted the two halves together with chocolate fudge buttercream and placed it in the fridge to set. After a few hours I brought it out and iced the whole thing then covered it with red fondant. It didn't quite cover the whole thing but I was going to put white around the bottom half anyway. I trimmed off the excess and then measured out with a piece of string (I couldn't find my tape measure) the amount of white icing I'd need to cover the bottom half. Then it came to the beak. I struggled for a while trying to find the right way to get the beak to be 3D. In the end I used a piece of left over red icing to make a pyramid shape and stuck it to the face. I then cut out two triangles one for the top half or the beak and one for the bottom. Using some water I attached them to the pyramid. The eyes were fairly easy once I worked out the correct shape which was like a triangle with the end cut off. For the black pupils I used a food pen and simply draw them on. Then the eyebrow were the same shape as the eyes but slightly big and longer. The hair was strips of light brown which I just layered all the way around and then the last two strips at the very front which I bent back slightly. I also used my ball tool to make a parting at the front and small lines around the rest of the hair to give it some texture. The belt was simply a strip of dark brown fondant wrapped around the bottom half. Then the lightsaber was a cake pop stick cut down and covered it silver and blue fondant. Once again I gave it a bit of texture with my ball tool. Lastly was the "Happy Birthday Brandon" plaque at the front. For that I simply rolled out blue fondant and with my icing pen wrote Happy Birthday in white and Brandon in yellow with a line all the way round the top. This was the final result: