Birthday

My boyfriend and his brother love Legos, and for Christmas we bought his brother a Lego man flashlight so I thought it'd only be fitting to make him a Lego block cake. He loves lime green so I knew it had to be that color but how was I going to make it.

I love baking/cooking so I knew I could do it but besides making a cake and just serving it in a pan or watching Duff make cakes I had no real idea of what to do.This was my inspiration.

Now what I needed was:

• 2 cake mixes plus ingredients for it
• 2 things of vanilla frosting
• blue and green Neon food coloring
• cupcake pan
• cake pan
• knife
• butter knife
• writing icing
• wax paper
• TIME!!!!!

Follow the directions on the back of the box and bake your cake. 

With the other box of cake make cupcakes!!! YUM! 

Let it cool. Slide a knife around the edges of the cake and take a larger pan and put it on top of the cake pan. Flip it over and watch your cake slide out. If pieces stick don't freak out just pull em out and use a little frosting as the glue.

Next take the cake and cut it to size and layer the two pieces on top of each other with a small layer of frosting in the middle. Then slide your knife over the top making it level. My cake was super super moist(who's complaining?!) so i had to let it set over night to try and give it some stability.

Next you'll take your vanilla frosting and do a "crumb coating" over it. Basically thin out the frosting a bit and do a really light cover of the cake. You'll want to see the cake through it. Let it sit for a few hours up to 24hours. It needs to have dried so its got a "crust" on it.

 This step basically just traps all the crumbs and when you put you're final frosting coat on it will be smooth.

The tinting was super easy just empty the rest of the frosting into a bowl and follow the direction on the back of the food coloring box. It was like 50 drops of green and 4 drops of blue(REMEMBER I USED NEON, so if you try the same color make sure you get NEON!!)

Put some wax paper around the edges of the cake to keep the frosting off the plate. Now frost away! 

Set aside 6 cupcakes to use as the circles on top of the Lego.

Here's the cake all frosted

Take the cupcakes and cut off the round tops, try and get them all the same size.

Place them on the cake with the rough side down makes it easier to frost.Take your frosting and do the sides and then the tops.

now if you've ever seen a Lego you know the they have "Lego" written on the circles so I used a tube of writing icing (yes, I know the colors don't match but I liked how it looked)

Here's the finished product!!! When we took it over Derek was ecstatic and was super happy. I took the rest of the cupcakes and just frosted them green and wrote Lego on them as well just to fit the theme. 

This was a big hit and he has already asked for a red one next year and his mom asked if I could make her a Eiffel Tower cake for her birthday, so come August there may be a post for it!