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Star Wars - The force awakens
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It was the year star wars returned and so roan wanted a star wars cake - if you've not seen the film, then there's a scene where the new weopon consumes a sun - sounded like a challenge.

I found a round cake tin on the internet and used mary berries chocolate cake recipe to make the world. As the cake was quite tall I needed to break up the vast amount of cake, so I filled the center with raspberry and white chocolate garnache, chocolate and philadelphia mix and some good raspberry jam. That bit was quite easy. The bit that was hard was the sun - it needed to be light so it didn't fall when attached. First I tried italian meringue, but it stuck to my spherical mould and was difficult to shape, it then broke trying to stick it all together, not good. So then I decided to try honeycomb. The first attempt was a disaster, but the honeycomb was great....

100g caster sugar
2 tbsp golden syrup - and remember to oil the spoon !
1 tsp bicarb

The problem was in shaping it - it's HOT, so you can't touch it and in a mould stays hot so long it collapses. Second attempt I froze the buttered moulds and after filling with honeycomb shoved it in the freezer to cool quickly - kind of worked, but on reflection - think it would have been easier to pour into a nice flat tray, cut out different size circles and stick them together with chocolate.In fact I ended up covering the honeycomb in white chocolate anyway and coating it with the crushed up meringues.

The Tie fighters were made from lindt chocolates with a matchmaker stuck through the middle, then coated in royal icing. Squares of royal icing were stuck (with chocolate) to the ends of the matchmakers.

To make the millenium falcon I created two royal icing shapes and used matchmakers to give them strength, then simply used fondant icing to create the detail,

Naturally the kids fought over who got the Tie fighers and the falcon !

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