HOWTO make a scrumptious life-sized Stormtrooper cake

Oakleaf Cakes, creator of the life-sized Stormtrooper cake we featured yesterday, have a post up detailing the fella's construction, right down to his rice krispie skeleton.

The building of the Stormtrooper cake was an epic event in and of itself. It took our entire wonderful crew of ten people two full weeks of to put this guy together (although the cake wasn’t added until 2 days before it was to be served). Along the way we even had to invent completely new cake making methods so it could be put together modularly onsite, hold its fondant over long vertical stretches, and stand on two beautifully sculpted Rice Kripsy legs that supported his 300 lb body –all while keeping every bit of cake tasting light, fluffy, and delicious!

We built a life-size Stormtrooper and he was delicious.

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Am I terrible for not really considering rice-krispie-and-fondant sculptures ‘cakes’? Fondant is usally not a repeatable edible.

Of course, that brings up the question of what defines ‘cake’?
- pziselberger
  
  So you’re saying, the cake is a lie?
  
  Don’t cross the memes, man!
  - for_SCIENCE
    
    But the nice lady said all my friends would be there!
- http://jere7my.livejournal.com jere7my
  
  It was mostly cake (under the marshmallow fondant). The two pieces I got had no Rice Krispy at all.
http://twitter.com/rebelsquirrel Not That Thena

Am I the only person who actually doesn’t mind eating fondant? I would totally eat fondant-covered rice krispie treats.
- Amanda Oakleaf
  
  Since the fondant is marshmallow fondant it is really like eating marshmallow covered rice krispie treats -aka rice krispie treats. And that’s only below the knees.
Amanda Oakleaf

Only the legs below the knees were Krispy, and our fondant is a home-made marshmallow based fondant that tastes just like marshmallow… because that’s all it is. More pics of the inside of the cake here: http://blog.oakleafcakes.com/stormtrooper-cake/