Star Wars Macaron Tower Cake

A client who had previously ordered a Mario macaron tower cake for her friend, was so happy with her order that she immediately asked me to reserve a date in June for another cake! She's such an awesome friend, surprising her besties with special birthday cakes! This time, it was Star Wars-themed. The birthday girl's fave Star Wars thing is the Millennium Falcon, so we definitely had to feature that prominently on the cake.

Star Wars Macaron Tower cake*

The cake is the most popular flavour: devil's food cake filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache. It is frosted with chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream, dyed black with gel food colouring. I speckled "stars" all over using Edible Art Paint flicked on with a paintbrush. 

black buttercream cake

I cut the birthday girl's name out of fondant, in Star Wars font, and moulded Darth Vader and a Storm Trooper's heads too. I haven't used those moulds in quite a long while, since these cupcakes for Uniqlo's Star Wars line launch!

fondant Storm Trooper & Darth Vader

The highlight of the cake though, was this out-of-this-world Star Wars macaron tower, done up by the talented Milleaville Macarons. Along with the millennium falcon, the macaron tower featured the birthday girl's other top favourite characters: Darth Vader, R2D2! I love how R2D2 has a little light saber! The macarons are filled with milk chocolate, dark chocolate and mint chocolate ganache. There was also a large 10cm Millennium Falcon macaron to decorate the side of the cake, specially for the birthday girl!

large Millenium Falcon macaron!

closer look at the details

When ordering a cake+macaron tower combo, if you are opting for self-collection, there is a bit of assembly required when you get to your venue, cuz the macaron tower cannot be secured onto the cake for transport. Also, the macaron on the top-most of the tower needs to be placed at the venue so there's no risk of toppling. 

all ready for the macaron tower

Our client did an awesome job (2nd time's a charm!) assembling the macaron tower on top of her cake! Birthday girl Yvonne absolutely loved her surprise birthday cake! *Here's a pic of the assembled cake, shared by the client:

Happy Birthday, Yvonne!*