Lego Cake

This Lego cake is for a little boy celebrating his 6th birthday with his classmates at school. His mummy wanted a clean and simple design: a cake decorated in white buttercream, with a few colourful lego bricks at the bottom. 

Lego Brick cake

The cake is a traditional chocolate sponge cake, filled with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. In order to get the buttercream "white", I actually had to dye it white with a few healthy squirts of AmeriColor Bright White food colouring! The butter we have here has a yellow tinge to it, unlike the white butters available in North America or even in Korea. 

whitening the buttercream

buttercream before & after adding white food colouring

For the fondant name plaque at the front of the cake, I used letter cutters to cut the birthday boy's name, and then layered very thinly rolled layers of black, yellow and red fondant for the background behind the name, in the same colours as the LEGO logo. 

Closer look at the hand-cut bricks

To border the bottom edge of the cake, I individually cut rectangles and squares out of primary colours (& green) and then stuck circles on top of each brick one by one, using the tip of a no. 8 round piping nozzle to cut the circles out. 

I do have a Lego brick silicone mold, but it makes thicker bricks. I wanted thin bricks for this cake so too bad, couldn't go the easier route!  Although a little time consuming, Lego bricks are straightforward to make, so pretty soon, I had enough to border the cake, and then had some leftover to scatter on top. 

back of the cake

Happy 6th Birthday, Lael