How "Nonni" Saved a 5 Year Old's Birthday Party!

“Grandma” (or in our case Nonni), “I want a Star Wars Millennium Falcon Cake for my birthday.” Never did such a few words from such a small, normally non threatening person (in this case Ady’s adorable almost 5 year old grandson) strike such fear into an adult’s heart. “Sure honey, whatever you want,” was her automatic and frightened answer.

Oh NO!!! A Star Wars Millennium Falcon Cake?! Like father like son, Ady thought, remembering the fascination her son had 30 years ago with Star Wars. She knew the Star Wars craze was back but didn’t expect it to be back in her kitchen. He might as well have asked for a piece of the moon. How on earth was she going to accomplish a millennium falcon cake?

Now, there are situations you can walk away from, and situations where you can fake the results, but when your own grandchild is involved you’ve got to come through.


Thank God for the internet, the repository of pretty much all knowledge these days. A quick search revealed a picture of a handmade cake. That was all she needed to be off and running. “I can do this, I can do this,” she told herself, because, at the end of the day, wouldn’t you jump through hoops of fire or vats of buttercream frosting, for your grandchild

1. Get a Duncan Hines (thank you very much to the guy who invented box cake mixes) delicious basic cake mix.



2. Make a pattern out of paper in the shape you need and then cut the cake to match
   


3. Buttercream frosting is next and you can buy it in a can or make it from a basic recipe found on the C & H confectioners sugar box. This becomes the delicious “glue” that holds everything together.
   


4. Star Wars men added to the top completed the picture and Nonni once again secured her place as the "Nonni" who could do ANYTHING!
   

Other people go to the gym or take a class in school or put together an Ikea dresser for that feeling of mastering something difficult. But let me tell you, completing the Millennium Falcon Cake ranked right up there. And, as with most things that seem daunting at first glance, looking back the whole thing was really simple.

Could anybody do this? Absolutely. Could YOU do this? Without a doubt. The idea is much trickier than the doing. Once you break it down into simple steps it really is a piece of cake.