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Lego Fondant Brick Cake and Cookie Tutorial

01 Thursday Jan 2015

Posted by Laurie in Cakes, Cookies

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chocolate mousse filling, double chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, Lego brick cookies, Lego Cake, royal icing, tutorial

Like many other parents out there, I fell in love with the “Lego Movie” that came out last year.  My boys (ages 12 and 9) are still playing with their millions of Legos they’ve collected over the years.  Even my 7-yr-old daughter has a few sets.  They’re such a fun toy that promotes creative play (despite the tiny pieces everywhere that drive us parents NUTS!).  And the movie had a great message….see it if you haven’t yet.

I had the opportunity a few months ago to make another cute Lego-themed cake as well as some Lego brick cookies for a sweet little boy.   These Lego cakes are so fun to make as they’re “”multi-media”…I get to use buttercream, fondant, Lego brick molds (I finally got one), Lego brick candy, and mini-figs, so fun! Here’s a link to another Lego cake I made earlier with more description about the cake.  This post shows how I made the big Lego brick on top as well as the Lego sugar cookies for Aiden’s 5th birthday party.

lego-birthday-cake-25The Lego-themed fondant cake toppers I made after watching this great Craftsy tutorial. Some of the bricks were made free-hand and others from a brick mold like this one.

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The Lego brick mini cake I made in a mini loaf pan.  After trimming it up and doing a thin crumb coat of buttercream (to smooth it out and keep the crumbs in), I covered it with blue fondant and cut off the excess.

The Lego studs (yes, those little dots are really called “studs”) are cut from thick fondant with a round cutter. I plopped the entire brick onto the buttercream iced cake without any supports as it wasn’t too heavy.lego-birthday-cake-5

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I added the other decorations and the mini-figs supplied by the mother of the birthday boy.  Too cute!! Love these cakes!!lego-birthday-cake-9

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The Lego cookies were made by baking up some rectangular-shaped sugar cookies and doing a smooth royal icing base coat.  After drying overnight, I used my template to mark evenly spaced dots and then piped on royal icing studs.  This technique I got from this great blog from Sweet Sugar Belle and it worked quite well.

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What a fun birthday theme for a sweet little boy! Thanks so much to Karen (Aiden’s mom) for ordering this Lego cake and cookies…They were so fun to make!  Happy 5th Birthday, Aiden!!

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Lego Birthday Cake

04 Friday Jul 2014

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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chocolate mousse filling, double chocolate cake, fondant, Lego Cake, vanilla-bean frosting

My sons are 11 and 9 at the moment and there are probably over a million and a half Legos spread around our house, so I can’t believe I haven’t made a Lego cake until this week!  A friend of a friend asked me to do a Lego birthday cake for her son’s birthday and I gladly obliged!

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This cake was SO FUN!  I started with a 10″- round double-chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and covered it with vanilla-bean buttercream in lemon yellow.  The large Lego figure, larger Lego bricks, and the round he’s sitting on are fondant, as is the name plate on the front.  I also covered a small loaf-sized cake with blue fondant and added fondant “studs” on the top (that’s the technical Lego-geek term for the little bumps on a Lego bricks that holds them together–who knew?!).  The smaller Lego bricks are candy.  I wanted to add some height, so I put the fondant stars and “9” on wires.  The customer brought me a bunch of her son’s favorite mini figures to go around the cake (my boys thought they were the “coolest ever” mini figs).

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lego-birthday-cake-10All in all, this was a SUPER fun one to do.  If I get more calls to make Lego cakes and cupcakes, I’m going to find a brick maker so I can make my own from fondant.

Hope you had a great birthday, Carter!  I really enjoyed making your cake!!

 

 

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Life is crazy and I love to bake. I'm a wife, mother of 3 nutty kids, and an admitted sugar-holic. Ten years ago I left my job as a senior consulting engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to get out of the rat race and raise kids. We up and moved to a quiet, small town in NE Ohio to be near family and bought a 180-yr-old historic home, always a dream of mine. Along the way, I discovered my joy of baking, which allows both my engineering side and my oft-suppressed creative side to emerge. It began with the desire to bake birthday cakes for my kids (I hated to buy them) and has blossomed into a cupcake-baking business for a local bakery. Over the years, many people have asked if I take orders. So, here they are. Check out the site, we'll be adding new cupcake flavors weekly as well as the occasional cake. And in case you're wondering about the name, it's an homage to the big, old gray barn in my back yard. What a bonus, it came with the house! Put on a smile and BAKE!

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