"How did you... make the LEGO Bricks cake?"
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A stacked LEGO bricks cake for a special boy's LEGO themed 5th birthday! Vanilla cakes, colored blue, with buttercream filling. Covered in fondant with fondant and chocolate accents.
Below are a few photos taken during the process. I hope you enjoy!
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Bake & Level
I started with vanilla cakes and colored them blue. Once baked I made sure they cooled completely before removing them from the pan and leveling. I couldn't afford any breakage since I was going to cut the cake up into bricks!
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Filling
The birthday boy loves blue and wanted a blue cake. So I colored the cakes blue before baking and filled the cake with vanilla buttercream, also colored blue. I added some rainbow sprinkles for a fun effect once the cake was cut.
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Slice for Bricks
I thought quite a bit about how to cut a standard sized cake into LEGO pieces. My measurements led me to believe a 9x13 cake would cut nicely into these four bricks (first cut into thirds, then cut one of those thirds in half).
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Separate
Once cut apart for bricks, I separated the four cakes to be covered uniquely. Each cake was crumb-coated in buttercream before covering with fondant panels.
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Cover
Each brick is a different color. I measured the sides and created templates to cut out panels from rolled fondant. The LEGO nodes were cut using a circle cutter from thicker rolled fondant.
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Stack
Once all the bricks were covered, I stacked together to simulate stacked, interlocking LEGOs.
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Assemble
After all stacked up, I began to add more nodes and clean up the lines where the fondant panels were joined on the bricks. Does it look like my scale model? :)
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Finishing Touches
I made chocolate LEGOs and assemebled for the birthday boy's name. I also cleaned up the edges of the bricks more and other cosmetic fixes.
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Serve!
After blowing out the candles, the cakes was sliced and served! Once cut, you can see the blue cake and fun filling the kids loved. : )
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