Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon
Today we are making a millennium falcon Star Wars cake. It is birthday season in our house
and if you remember from last year my husbands favourite cake is carrot cake. So to make
this super moist carrot cake you'll need coconut
walnuts baking powder and cinnamon
flour coarsely grated carrots
crushed pineapple eggs,
sugar and oil.
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put a link to that in the description below this video.
Pour the oil, sugar and eggs into a bowl and mix them together using a whisk until it is
combined. Add the pineapple and the carrots and mix those through as well, carrot cake
is really easy to make it doesn't take long. Place a sieve over the bowl and add the flour,
baking powder and cinnamon and sift through to get rid of any lumps and make it nice and
airy. Fold that flour through until it is just combined
and then add in you walnuts and your coconut.
And fold those through as well. Now tip all of that into a tray and spread
it out and bake it the oven until it is just golden brown.
Once it is cooled remove it from the tray and cut one piece to the size of your board.
Spread a small amount of cream cheese frosting onto the board and add that piece of cake.
Then cover the whole thing in a layer of frosting. The recipe and video for making this frosting
is on the how to cook that youtube channel. And you can to that just by clicking on how
to cook that below the video and then click on the videos tab to see all of my videos.
And you can find it there.
Now we want to make the ground uneven, like there are sand dunes in the middle of the
dessert. So cut strips of cake from that left over piece and build them up. Starting with
a thick piece and a thin bit over the top. Now they don't have to be straight you can
curve them around. It is sand dunes, there are no rules put it how you like on your cake.
If you are making this cake for more people then you might like to increase this recipe
and make two or even three layers of the carrot cake and make your the sand dunes bigger.
Or you could use chocolate cake or sponge cake it depends who you're making it for.
Now cover the whole thing in frosting. You can just spread it on or if you have a piping
bag it is quicker just to pipe it on roughly and then spread it out.
Make sure the frosting covers the sides of the cake as well and use the frosting to smooth
out roughly the shape of how you want sand dunes to be.
Choose the biscuits that you want, I choose ones that are the colour of the dessert sand
in star wars 7. And then blitz them in a blender. If you don't have a blender put them in a
plastic bag and just smash then with a rolling pin until you've got really fine crumbs.
Now get your helpers to wash their hands and pretend that they are being dump trucks delivering
the sand. Spread it out and smooth it on so that it looks like sand dunes.
To make the millennium falcon I am using a silicon mold today. Some compound white chocolate
and then I am going to fill it with some nuts, dried fruit and turkish delight to make it
a bit CHEWY.
These are a few of my husbands favourite things you can choose what you want to put in the
middle depending on who you are making the cake for and what they like.
Melt the chocolate in the microwave and then pour it into the mold to fill it about 3/4
of the way to the top.
Then add your chosen fillings and push them in then cover the top with more chocolate
to seal it.
Before it sets hard add in some lollipop sticks. you will need three and they need to be tilted
to one side if you want your millennium flacon to be flying on an angle.
If you want it straight then you can leave them straight.
Leave that to set and then push it out of the mold. Just using your thumbs on the bottom
to push it through.
You can see some of the fillings on the top here and that is fine because the millennium
falcon is quite beaten up. And we are going to brush it over anyway.
Take some silver luster dust and a dry paint brush and just dust it all over. And you'll
see it get stuck in all the cracks and really defines and brings out the pattern that we
got from the silicone mold.
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Once you've dusted it off use some gel or candy food colouring add colour in some details.
Add some black to the heat exhaust vents to the back there and then some more at the maintenance
access bays at the front.
Then add in some rusty red colour and add that detail to the paint work. And then make
it look a bit older and beaten up just paint a little bit round the edges with a little
bit of colour on your brush. You want your brush to be nearly dry when you do this.
Then just before serving add it to your cake.
I made that bit, that bit and that bit.
You're amazing, do you know what this is?
No
It's like the greatest spaceship of all time the millennium falcon
Dad, is that the door?
Yeah, well sort of they sort of get in underneath.
And there you have it a super easy Millennium Falcon cake, share this video with a Star
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Have a great week and I'll see you all on Friday.
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