This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
Another Brick in the Cake
Oct
5
2009
We had some birthday parties at our house this past weekend. It was for our extended family (wife’s side), so in-laws and cousins also had some birthdays. Anyone who has a birthday in the fall was a guest of honor. And since some people involved were young boys, the theme was pirates (“And I’ve never walked the gang plank and I’ve never owned a parrot and I’ve never had a birthday in the fall“).
My wife prepared for the parties by buying some Lego molds – one for cakes and one for water (AKA an ice-cube tray).
The cake mold was used to make some cakes – one for each of the children whose birthdays we were celebrating. That would be two boys and one girl.
No, there was not a female version of the standard Lego minifigure. My wife just added some extra pieces of cake to the sides. Frosting covers a multitude of sins.
The ice-cube mold (mould for you Brits) was not used for ice at all. We made chocolates – white chocolate with food coloring (that’s colouring for … oh, never mind) added. It resembles the smaller, plastic bricks quite well. Some people just glanced at them and thought they were plastic pieces added for decoration. They were, of course, pleasantly surprised when we told them they were chocolate. The pieces were about an inch and a half long, in case you need a sense of scale.
There was also ice cream and a trifle. No shortage of desserts here. Oh, and we had dinner before that.
A warning in case you get the same or a similar Lego mold (yes, it was official Lego-brand merchandise): the resulting cake is fragile. One guy’s hand fell off (frosting hid that) and the heads broke off all three cakes (frosting again).
I haven’t frosted very many cakes in my life, and these were difficult to frost. The frosting (that’s icing for… okay, okay, no more) was just the standard frosting, but the cakes were too intricate. The hands were the worst – most of the details got lost and there were so many curves and crevices. And the face… the cake had eyes and a mouth, but those stood no chance of showing through the frosting.
But food coloring and gel decorating tubes made up for any deficiencies in the frosting department. Oh, and my wife did the detail work.
Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
Nahum 3:14
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 4:30 am and has been carefully placed in the Food category.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Very fancy! Good job.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:53 am
I want some Lego Brick Chocolates!
October 5th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Like the details on the cakes: hairy chests and facial hair. Great job!
March 12th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Do you still have the lego minifigure cake mold? If so, would you consider selling it? I have been looking for one for my soon-to-be five year old’s upcoming birthday, but so far no luck. :( Thank you!
March 14th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
We do still have it, but we do still want it. We got ours off eBay, if that’s any help.
March 14th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Thanks anyway. We’ll keep searching.
April 27th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
Thanks for this it really gave me some good ideas and for your information, us Brits are intelligent enough to read American
April 28th, 2011 at 12:04 am
Those statements were meant to be funny, not insulting. Please take it all in good humour.
June 30th, 2013 at 3:44 pm
I’m sorry, but the top ones (the Lego people) are terrible! I have to applaud you for your effort, but I’m curious if you’ve tried using fondant? I’m writing this with a smile, btw – not trying to be mean about the comment – just honest! :)
June 30th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
I’m not a fan of how fondant tastes, although I do admit it is easier to make things look nicer with fondant. So no, we did not try fondant.
And I don’t disagree with your assessment of how they turned out. Since then, we’ve used the Lego forms only for chocolate or Jello.