Large brick lego cake tutorial on the blog today y’all!
One of my favorite things about my husband is that he never outgrew his love for legos.
On our very first date I remember him showing me his lego ships that he had built (recently) and decided I liked him. It won him big points. So for his birthday a Lego cake was quite fitting.
Granted I am totally still learning the ins and outs of fondant, so its not quite perfect, but all the same I am happy with the outcome of the large brick lego cake.
I believe a healthy level of keeping in touch with one’s inner child is something we all should do more often ๐
Onto to fun part-
Large brick lego cake Tutorial:
You will need:
- A cake cooked in a 9X13 cake pan. I used Alton Brown’s devil food recipe.
- Butter cream frosting
- Fondant: 8 oz of green, yellow, blue and red. I buy fondant at the craft store, haven’t been ambitious enough to make it yet.
- coke bottle cap (I used this to form the knobs on the legos)
- cake mat with measuring marks
- cake leveler
- spatula for icing the cakes
- cake board
1. Cut the cake into 3 6 inch by 3 inch bricks.
Use a serrated knife and the cake mat to measure your bricks.
2. Level the top of the bricks with the cake leveler (I cut mine at about 1.5 inches high)
3. Cut out a rectangle piece of cardboard and wrap it in sedan wrap or foil.
This is for your cake pieces to sit on so that you can stack the cake later. Place each brick on a piece of wrapped cardboard.
4. Put a crumb coating on your lego bricks with butter cream icing.
Remember thin icing is best for a crumb coating. And of course, don’t worry about the crumbs, thats the purpose of this layer!
4. Cover each brick with rolled fondant.
I used 8oz of fondant per brick in the colors of green, yellow and red. I also used this great youtube on how to cover square cakes with fondant.
…after I hated the first lego bricks I made, threw them away, baked an entire new cake and cut new bricks. Just watch the youtube, it’ll save you about 3 hours of time ๐
5. Once all your bricks are covered in fondant, you can stack them how you like on your cake board.
6. I used left over fondant and a coke bottle lid to cut out the lego knobs for each piece.
I attached them by putting a small amount of water on the bottom and placing them onto the fondant bricks.
7. For the words
I used more left over fondant, wilton letter cut outs and a straw as my cut out to make the smaller lego knobs.
8. Lego guy is made of gum paste.
Although its not perfect, I think it beats last years attempt at a boat cake ๐
Hope you enjoy lego cake making!
Alice / MAH says
Love this! My boyfriend is a big Lego fan, although I like them too and I’ve thought of making a Lego cake before, but never got around to doing it. I think your cake looks really nice and I’m definitely saving this recipe. ๐
Thanks for sharing!
thegingerlifeblog@gmail.com says
Thanks Alice. The cake is totally doable, I think you should go for it when its birthday time!
Cindy Creel says
The cake looks great! Happy Birthday to CJ.
thegingerlifeblog@gmail.com says
Thanks Mom Cindy!