The Icy Lava Planet Cake

Salam & Hi

As promised, here's the post on the cake I made on my Cheekyface 9th original* birthday. (*original cuz this one was made on his real birthday date). He's just very happy to have had few birthday celebrations this year (Read here). At first I wanted to bake some red velvets cupcakes with cute little fondant lightsabers for him to celebrate with friends at the school but he stopped me before I even go further saying that, "I don't feel like celebrating at school, I am in KS2 now, Mommy...only KS1's kids do that." Hmmm..so much from a boy who just turned 9!

And instead of cupcakes, he requested me to make him an ice cream cake, like the one I've done before.........but in strawberry flavour. I've had friends asking me how to make this simple ice cream cake, so here's how I did it.

However, for this time, I added some crazy ideas which turned out pretty cool for my StarWars-crazy-Cheekyface! I wanted to make him the Planet Mustafar cake, like the one I saw on one of the many websites/blogs about star wars party ideas but it was slightly difficult since he wanted an ice cream cake and that meant no buttercream or fondant to deco! Well, Mommy had to be extra creative la kot...

I used a shop-bought sponge cake to make the base of the cake. Cut the cake and placed it into a springform tin ( I used 9x3 inch square tin) lined with clingfilm (both in the bottom and sides of the tin). As for the ice cream, I mixed approximately 1.2liter strawberry ice cream with about 300g chopped frozen strawberry (let it softened at room temperature before chopping); stirred them up slowly and later scrapped the mixture onto the cake base, flattened it like a cake and froze it up in the freezer overnight.

And so, on the next morning (on his birthday), I made strawberry filling/topping (I  added some chopped dried cranberries too) and few drops of red food colouring to make it more lava-like, let it cool, took out the ice cream cake from the freezer and poured the topping in. It looked like thick pool of red lava on top! I put the cake back in the freezer for another couple of hours before I went on to the next step i.e. to make the chocolate topping.

I melted 1 1/2 cups of semi-sweet milk chocolate chips and mixed it with 1/2 cup of thick cream. Popped the cake out from the freezer and while it was still warm, I put dollops of the choc topping onto the 'red lava topping'. I wasn't sure how to do it so I had my friend to shape the choc topping like torn pieces of land on the Planet Mustafar! 

When Cheekyface got home from school, all he wanted to see was his cake and I let him placed his figurines on the cake. Boy, was he proud to parade his skills too :P

It was a small little celebration at home - thanks to my dear friend Yummy Mummy and her two little MONsters who rocked the sudden unplanned party :P Babe, thanks for the pics too, I love 'em so much!

There was no writing on the cake, no special deco whatsoever, but just what he wanted - his Strawberry Ice Cream cake of which Mommy made special - The Icy Lava Planet Cake!

Like this cake? Coming up next is ....Cheekyface's Birthday Battle & Sleepover Party...all Star Wars style! Keep reading peeps...I love u all!