Liam opened his eyes to a Jedi pastry surprise as did Rowan. For his birthday, dad made a Light Saber birthday cake so the Force would be with him on his day.

This light saber cake was done for my son's surprise 5th birthday. We made he and his sister cover their eyes and brought in a light saber cake covered in candles --the force was strong with this one.



The difficulty was to make the thing spherical and long at the same time, so I decided to go an origami style of baking and made swiss roll cake -- taking a 2d surface and making it a 3d spherical object.

This is my first attempt in making swiss roll and I did need the force to be with me.

The first step was just to make an ordinary cake
Ingredients A (cake)
6 eggs
3/4C sugar)
1T hot water
100ml oil
1 & 1/4C self-raising flour (sieved)
Stir oil through the beaten egg
Beat the eggs and sugar for 5 minutes until light and fluffy. Fold in the flour.
Pour into 2 big, shallow tins and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for about 12 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Roll up the cake while still hot
Flip over onto a clean piece of baking paper and immediately roll it up with the help of the paper. Leave it to cool. While waiting, you can make the center whatever you want to fill the swiss roll--I chose Lychee because it kind of glows (don't you think?).

According to my son, Annakin has a blue light --so blue was the color of the frosting and the size of the rolls were thicker according to handle and saber.