Making a Death Star Cake

I've had three people contact me about the Death Star cake pictured in my previous post. I honestly don't have any advice about how to go about it...I just wing it when I make cakes, but I'm happy to share the process I went through.  

This was four layers...enough to make two whole cakes. When cooled, I frosted them and stacked them up on top of each other and put it in the refrigerator to firm up.  Once chilled, I started cutting it into a sphere shape.  When that was done, I put it in the refrigerator to chill some more, while making homemade fondant. It was my 2nd time making fondant...which is ridiculously overpriced and disgusting if you purchase the stuff, but really easy and pretty tasty if you make your own out of marshmallows. I tinted mine dark.  

Once the fondant was made, I covered the sphere, used a ball (about the size of a billiards ball) to make the indentation, and then sprayed it with edible silver paint.  Then I used a paint brush and edible black paint for the decor.  I drew lines all around it, and painted them in.  Added a green candy for the laser-thingy, and it was done.  

Here are some snapshots of the process, including one with Gator and his cake, and the cake half-eaten.  Hope this helps some of you with your Birthday Jedi needs!  

(You may be interested in my all-time most popular blog post about hosting a
Star Wars Birthday Party. I get about 50 visits a day to this post.)