How to make a Lego man cake
Hello and welcome to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor.
Today we are doing another Lego themed video, this time, I am going to show you how to make
a Lego man cake.
Yummy, super easy to do, really creative, fun for the kids, or any Lego fan really,
with out further ado let's get started.
For the tools and ingredients I have a bowl, I have a whisk or you could use an electric
mixer.
I have a cake mix, you can use whatever cake mix you want, I am just using a traditional
chocolate cake mix, you can also make the cake from scratch.
You need fondant, I found this at Walmart, and you can find it online as well, I will
put a link down below where you can find it on Amazon.
You need a Lego cake mold, and I got this on Amazon.
I will put a link down below where you can find one, really cheap, awesome.
And then you need the extra ingredients, for the cake mix, in my case; I have a half of
cup of oil, three eggs, and one cup of water.
And I have a pan here that I will put the mold on when it goes in the oven.
And I have a rolling pin, and I also have an Artisan mat, and this is just for me to
roll out the fondant on.
You can use your counter or what not.
First preheat your oven to whatever it says on the back of your cake mix, or your cake
recipe, in my case it is 350 degrees.
And then what I am going to do, is I am going to go ahead and add my oil, add the eggs,
okay, then I am going to go ahead and whisk this together real quick, and then add the
water, give it a good whisk, then we will add our cake mix.
And then mix this all together real well.
And you can use your electric mixer if you want.
Okay, we will set this aside, take our cake mix, and put it on our baking sheet, and then
what I did is lightly spray the inside with kitchen spray.
You could also grease it and then dust it with flour or cocoa powder, even though it
is silicone, it is still nice to do that with these bigger silicone molds.
And then let's go ahead and pour about half of it in, you don't want too much.
There we go, and now we are going to go ahead and bake this, and you bake it according to
your instructions, I am going to start with 20 minutes and then check it and go from there.
Okay, I have taken it out of the oven.
What I want to do now is level it a little bit; it is pretty close to being there, but
I am just going to go ahead and take a knife and go ahead and run it across like that.
And I will save that for later and eat that, mmm yummy.
Okay now it is time to take the mold out.
Here is a little tip, if you forgot to grease or spray your mold, or if you have a really
really moist cake, and it is not coming off the sides easy, then what you will want to
do is freeze it for about an hour.
And that way it will come out of the mold and it will keep its shape.
Otherwise, it can come out and be all crumbly and we don't want that.
So what we are going to do, is we are going to take this, and I have my cake holder here,
and I put some parchment paper on top.
We are going to go ahead and just turn this over, and let it come up.
It should come right out, depending on what mix you used.
Look at that, pretty awesome.
Now we have a little chocolate cake, Lego man.
Cool, now is the fun part, now what we are going to do is decorate this bad boy.
So I am going to put him aside for now, and we are going to roll out some fondant.
Okay so what I am going to do first is the head and the hands with my yellow.
So you open up your fondant.
Okay, and what you are going to do first is you are going to take it and knead it in your
hands, and you just eyeball how much you are going to need.
I am going to use about that much, or maybe a little less then that.
Then you are just going to knead it in your hands, until it gets really nice and soft
and pliable, make sure your hands are clean.
Okay, that is ready to go, I am going to take my rolling pin and roll it out nice and flat.
And we want it to be, oh about an 1/8 th of an inch or so.
Okay, and then you take your lego man here, and your fondant, and you lay it right on
top, and you just want to push it around and tuck it in.
And there are all kinds of cake decorating tools you can get if you want, I just use
my fingers and my knife, and you just come in and trim
away the fondant.
And then the little indentions for the eye holes you want to just poke those in a little
bit, and we are going to fill that in, there is the mouth and they eyeballs, and we are
going to fill those in with black icing, but you can use whatever you want.
And you don't have to do it my way, this way; you can totally decorate these however you
want.
And now I am going to go ahead and do the hands, and these can be a little bit tricky
because of the shape.
But just go in here, go ahead and wrap around.
I am going to do his shirt red and his pants blue.
Okay, go ahead and check this size, looks like that will work, and then I just try and
find the edges here.
Getting a red shirt Lego Man.
And it just takes practice to make everything look super perfect, in general it is pretty
easy to work with fondant.
Okay, now we just need to do the pants.
Ok, now I am going to just paint in the eyes and our mouth here, using this icing.
And then I am going to do a little bit of a smiley face too.
And there we go, a Lego cake, pretty awesome.
All right our Lego Man Cake is done.
And it looks amazing, super creative, really easy to do, and if you don't have any experience
with fondant, don't worry about it, it's pretty easy to work with, and it may not look super
professional, like the edges and everything, but that's ok, we are all about having fun,
making things easy, and it is still going to look cool and taste good.
So go out there and make one, if I can do it, you can do it.
I am Matt Taylor; this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, thank you for
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