Lego Star Wars Birthday Cake

I know, I've got Christmas posts and non-Christmas posts going on here. 

I'm just all over the place :)

So I already posted the Death Star Pinata from my son's 5th birthday. Now onto the cake!

This is my third time using this decorating technique for cakes, so I have a few more tips for you this go around.
Check out our Avengers cake here and our birthday cupcakes here.
Before we got started it took me a while to find a coloring book page my son liked, and we actually ended up picking two pictures and I just put them next to each other on the cake.
I of course realized afterwards that the Emperor is facing the wrong way.
Oh well.
Ok, scroll down to see all of the pictures!

So I started out by taping the pictures to the underside of a piece of glass.

DIY Death Star Pinata

Even though Thanksgiving is next week, my mind has been rather occupied elsewhere.

I have a certain amazing little guy in my life who just turned 5 last week.

The first two weeks of November were spent planning his awesome birthday bash.

I have discovered that I LOVE to plan birthday parties, and now that my son is older it's so fun to bounce ideas back and forth and give him something he really loves.

Last year for his 4th birthday bash we had the infamous Avengers themed party.

We made a Captain America Shield Pinata from cardboard. That pinata didn't cost me a penny to make, and it was awesome.
For this year's party my son requested a Lego Star Wars theme. As soon as he said that we both knew we had to make a Death Star pinata.

Now this pinata did cost me $2.50 because I bought a ball.
I didn't have a ball on hand that was the right size...I realized later that a beach ball would have worked perfectly though...oh well.

Birthday Cupcakes

Hello everyone!

So my husband's family came to visit us here in sunny California about 2 weeks ago, and we were so excited to see them and have all of the kids run around and get to spend time with each other.

On that side of the family we have 5 nieces, and during the week while they were here we had 3 of their birthdays to celebrate!

Needless to say, they all have different tastes and likes.

One niece is into princesses, one is into Star Wars, and the other likes animals.

I offered to make cupcakes, and I wanted to make them each something to make the celebration feel special and individualized.

My most popular post EVER on this blog is the Avengers birthday cake I made for my son's birthday.
(If you haven't had a chance to check that out yet, you can find it here).
To decorate the cake I printed out a coloring book page and traced it with frosting, check it out, it's awesome :)
Well, I decided to use the same decorating technique for these cupcakes.
That's right folks, I traced pictures with frosting again!
I started out by finding color book pages on the internet and re-sizing them to what I thought would be the right size for a cupcake.
I then taped the pictures under a piece of glass, and taped wax paper on top of the glass.

 I tinted my frosting black and did all of the outlines first.