Storm Trooper Cake

Gavin my second to oldest grandson wants a Storm trooper cake for his birthday. This sounded a little hard so I thought I better practice. Here is my first attempt. I made a chocolate cake and found a picture of a storm trooper. I cut the 9x13 cake in the outline of the picture I found. I iced the out lined cake in a butter cream icing and than I made an extra cake for the impression of the face and the nose. I think next time I will make the impression of the face either round or triangle? I than added the impression of the nose and face and iced the cake again in butter cream.


I found a great recipet for homemade fondant and it tease good too. It was very easy to handle I thought easier than actual Fondant or Chocopan.

you take 16 oz marshmallows in a bowl with 4-5 t water and melt in microwave (setting the microwave for 30 seconds and stirring) it takes about 2.5 min to melt the marshmallows. You will need 2 lbs powder sugar. You add 3/4 of the powder sugar on top of the marshmallows. You will need about 1/2 c shortening. Grease your counter top and your hands and empty the marshmallow mixture on the counter top and knead the marshmallow mixture slowly adding the remaking powder sugar and keeping you hands greased. You knead it like you would bread dough. At first it is very sticky but keeping adding grease to your hands. If it starts tearing apart add more water. Works great.

Coconut Cupcakes

Grandma Massey' Cinnamon Roll Recipe

When Gabe niece Amy visited for the holiday's I told her I would put our Cinnamon roll recipe on my blog. It just so happens I am going to Grandma Massey's house this weekend and she is making Cinnamon rolls. I will take pictures...
Here is the recipe
2 T salt
2 T vanilla
6-61/2 cups flour
3/4 c oil
2 T yeast
2/3 warm water
2 c warm milk (canned mile works best)
1 c sugar
4 eggs
1 c butter
1 c sugar with 2-4 T cinnamon mixed with it.
It is best to set your yeast by putting the 2 T in the 2/3 C warm water. i like to sprinkle a little bit of sugar over it to help it set up faster.

Put your warm milk in a mixer. Add the flour a little at a time when half of the flour has been added also add the reaming ingredients followed by the rest of the flour. If you have a Bosh let it mix for about 8 min. Other wise you are going to have to knead the dough by hand for 5- 10 min. You can let this dough set in the refrigerator up to 24 hours before you roll the dough out to make your rolls.

When you are ready to make your rolls prepare a clean surface and sprinkle with flour. Roll the dough out until it is about 1/4 inch think. Take your butter (room temperature) and spread over the dough. Now take your cinnamon and sugar mixture and sprinkle e over the dough. You are now ready to roll your dough up. Once it is rolled with a string cut your dough making each cinnamon roll about a inch thick.
Step 1 Add the warm milk, sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs



Step 2 take the water and make it as warm as the milk for a baby bottle and add your yest. Let the yeast work


Step 3 Gradually add half the flour. Next add the yeast and the rest of the flour and salt

Step 4 Unless you have a bosh and can let the dough mix for about 8 min. You would need to let the dough raise for about an hour.


Step 5 roll out your dough about half an inch think


Step 6 spread cube of butter over the dough and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon mixture




Next roll our dough


Last step
Use a string to cut the dough about an inch think


Bake approx 20 min at 400 about 20 min.

Now take them out of the oven wait 5-10 min and spread icing

Skyler's Birthday Cake