How To Make A Star Wars Cake

A Star Wars birthday is a very popular party theme among kids and adults, too. If you are hosting a Star Wars party and are looking for birthday cake ideas, you will find a lot of great information on this page.

I am featuring a large selection of Star Wars birthday cake designs. Some of the cake designs you will see here include a R2D2 cake using a specialty cake pan, a 3D R2D2 cake, a Star Wars lightsaber cake, Star Wars Death Star Cake, Stormtrooper, Jabba the Hutt, Star Wars cakes using edible cake images, 3D Yoda cake, Darth Vader Cake, Boba Fett cake, Millenium Falcon Cake, Star Wars Spaceship cake, Lego Star Wars cakes, Star Wars Clone Wars cakes, Fondant Cakes, Cupcake Trees and much more.

In addition to the great Star Wars cake photos, you will also find complete design instructions/recipes, photo tutorials, cake and cupcake toppers, candles, hard to find retired Star Wars cake pans, Star Wars cake kits and cupcake picks.

A Star Wars lightsaber cake is a very popular design for this party theme. There are many ways in which you can create a lightsaber cake and even the novice baker will be able to pull this off. The basic instructions include baking a 9" X 13" cake then cutting the cake up into pieces. Once the cake is cut, arrange the pieces alongside each other to create the lightsaber. The cake is then frosted or covered in fondant. The lightsaber handle can be frosted or covered with a different colored fondant. You can add more details to the handle if you chose to.

The lightsaber cake image pictured here was provided courtesy of You, On a Cookie. This design is currently their most popular cake. The lightsaber is made of hard candy. A mold making kit was purchased to help them create the shape. They even backlit the lightsaber by placing glow sticks behind it so that when the lights went out... the saber glowed! The finished lightsaber is then placed on a cake covered in fondant or buttercream and accented with personalized edible cake images.

The Wilton Star Wars R2D2 cake pan # 2105-1294 has been discontinued, but it is still available for sale. If you do purchase this cake pan for your Star Wars birthday cake and it does not come with the original decorating instructions, you can download them here. These instructions include the baking instructions as well as the decorating tips and icing colors you need to create the R2D2 cake design.

Photos provided courtesy of el cad, princessrica, jenniferrt66, and lesleyhyphenanne.

3D R2D2 Cake Photo Tutorial displayed with a Creative Commons License courtesy of Steve E.

Cake images above provided courtesy of Montreal Confections & Little Bakery

For more information on edible cake images, please visit my How To Make an Edible Cake Image hub.

Sandra (socakes) provides a complete photo tutorial on how to create a 3D Yoda birthday cake. Start with a 6" round cake pan and a bowl shaped tin. Once cooled, stack the cakes and cover in buttercream. The body is then covered in green and brown fondant. Yoda's head is created out of chocolate crackle (like rice crispy treats) and inserted using a bamboo skewer into the body. For full cake instructions including photos visit Sandra's blog.

Photo Acknowledgments
Charley's Bakery, Sandra (socakes) and Always Cake.

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kelannfuller, primacakes, Charly's Bakery

A Star Wars Death Star cake can be created by baking a cake in a Wilton Ball Cake Pan. Once the cake is cooled and the ball shape is formed, cover the entire cake in buttercream.

Then, you can do one of two things.

1. Cut out pieces of fondant and attach them randomly around the ball as you see in Photo #1.
2. Cover the entire cake ball in fondant and using a sharp edge/knife make indents in the cake to form the squares as you see in Photo #2.

Both cakes would be great for your Star Wars birthday party!

Photo Acknowledgements
Creative Commons License jenosale & reneero.

Stormtrooper cake image provided courtesy of Sweet Creations.

This Boba Fett cake photo tutorial is provided courtesy of Rob & Emily.

The image was hand drawn onto the cake. Click here to view all of the photos in the tutorial.

To create a Lego Star Wars cake, you can bake a sheet cake and then top it with mini Lego Star Wars figures. Or, you could bake Lego shaped cakes and add the figures to that instead. Another idea would be to add a Lego Star Wars edible cake image to your home baked cake.

Photo Acknowledgment
Creative Commons License Yersinia.

Star Wars Space Ship provided courtesy of Grace's Cakes.

 Chewbacca cake image provided courtesy of Little Bakery. 

Star Wars Space Ship cake displayed courtesy of el cad.

This Millenium Falcon cake image is displayed with a Creative Commons License courtesy of CFuga.

Click here for step-by-step instructions for creating a Star Wars Millenium Falcon cake.

Here is another great photo tutorial for this cake design!

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neviepiecakes, Layers of Love, kbaird, & redwolfoz.

There are two Star Wars party packs available on the market. The first is the Star Wars 3-D Feel the Force Pack and the other is Star Wars Clone Wars. 

Party Works carries wonderful Star Wars decorating kits. There are four different kits to choose from. Some of the items you will find in these decorating kits include:

• Invitations
• Dessert Plates
• Hot/Cold Cups
• Napkins
• Table Cover
• Cake Decorating Rings
• Loot Bags
• Blow Outs
• Cutlery
• Balloons
• Streamers
• Candles
• Exclusive Game Book
• Personalized Birthday Banner
  
  Order the Star Wars Decorating Kit
  Order the Star Wars Cake Rings
  

You can create a Star Wars birthday album or layout for all of your party photos and details. You can visit my Star Wars Birthday Scrapbook page for lots of ideas and supplies including:

Scrapbook Stickers
Bottle Cap Embellishments
Patterned Paper
3D Paper Piecings
Premade Layouts
Star Wars Instant Albums
12 X 12 Scrapbook Album
Clone Wars Scrapbook Supplies
Chipboard Embellishments
Rub-On's
and much more!