A few weeks ago parents at my son’s school were asked to send in cake, cupcakes, and cookies for the fun fair’s cake walk. LEGO are very popular where we live so I decided to make a LEGO man cake to send in.
I have mostly just made cakes for JDaniel’s birthday so, I decided this cake needed a simple design. With a busy schedule this cake would also need to be super easy to put together.
How I Made A LEGO Man Cake
Three cakes were actually made using a boxed yellow cake mix. There was one large round cake and two small loaf cakes.
You will notice that the large cake has lines on it. I really should have put a flat plate instead of a cooling rack on top of the cake can when I turned the cake out of the cake pan. The cooling rack left lines on the cake.
When the cakes were fully cooled, I started work on trimming the large cake. The round cake had two opposing ends trimmed. I needed to create areas for the studs (the bumps on a LEGO).
The two small loaf cakes had their tops trimmed so that they would look flat on the top and the bottom. Then they were added to the ends of the round cake to create the studs.
Originally I thought that I was going to have to add yellow food coloring to a tub of store bought while frosting. The first store I stopped at didn’t have yellow frosting. At the second store I stopped at I found a tub of bright yellow frosting. It looked like just the color I was going to need. I wasn’t need to try to get the LEGO yellow color on my own.
The round cake was frosted first and placed in the aluminum cake pan that would carry the cake to school. Then the loaf cakes were frosted and put on the ends of the round cake. The area where the cakes joined to together were frosted over to make it look like one piece.
All that was left was to add the facial features to the LEGO man cake Two cookies from a sandwich cookie were used to make the eyes. I had planned for chocolate covered cookies, but didn’t find them at either store I visited. The sandwich cookies worked out to be a great plan B.
The mouth of the LEGO man cake was a single stick of black licorice. I used a whole piece of licorice. In hindsight I wish I had trimmed the licorice and given the LEGO man a smaller tighter smile.
This fun LEGO man cake didn’t last long at the cake walk. JDaniel and I walked by the cake walk shortly after the fun fair started and it had already been won!
Here are some other fun LEGO themed creations:
If you try these LEGO ideas , please leave me a comment below telling me about how your experiments went or share a picture of it on my Facebook page.
Oh yeah. Might have to make a cake with broxton soon. This would be fun
It is so easy! I bet Broxton would love it!
What a fun idea for a cake walk.