Bake a sheet cake the size that you need. Draw Darth Vader on the cake using a #5 round tip and icing (see picture below for how to draw the outline of Darth Vader on the cake). If you make a mistake while drawing the outline, just scrape off the icing and start again. Cut away the cake outside of the outline.
Using the picture as a guide line, cover areas in different colored
icings using star tip #18. Use black icing for the helmet with cream
colored and white icing as the shading. Use black icing and medium
brown icing as the shading for the shoulder.
The chest is medium dark grey icing on one side with cream shading at
top of stripes. The other side is white icing with grey icing for
shading and with cream icing in between.
Using a small icing spatula, shaded areas can be softly blended
together where they meet. This gives the cake more dimension.
Here is another Star Wars Birthday Cake.
Here is yet another great idea for a Star Wars cake. It is a star wars cake topper. When you are finished with your cake, the birthday child (who loves Star Wars) will have a new Star Wars toy to play with. This makes for a super easy and fantastic looking Star Wars theme birthday cake!
If you prefer to use edible
cake art images
, here are a couple to choose from.