Directions:

1. Bake your cake in a 9×13 pan according to its instructions. Be sure to grease and flour your pan for easier removal after cooking.
2. Once your cake has cooled for 20 or so minutes remove it from the pan and place it in the freezer. Cooling your cake will make it less crumbly when you cut the Lego man out.
3. Print the Lego man template out to scale (my cake was roughly 12.5 inches in height) and cut it out.
4. Pin your template in place using a toothpick and cut the cake. Go slow and smoothly to prevent the cake from ripping and turning to crumbs.
5. Position your Lego man on a tray and frost it with colored frosting. Remember I like to use ziplock bags to mix my frosting and the colored gel. I then snip the corner and pipe it on, then finally smooth it out with a cake spatula.

Tips & Tricks

• You may want to build and frost your Lego man once piece at a time; I would especially recommend this if you’re using fondant. Some of the spots were difficult to get at with a spatula after my Lego my was assembled (between his arms and torso). I actually used a bamboo skewer to frost the inside U of the hands.
• Be careful with the hands. My first hand completely crumbled and had to be redone. The other hand survived, but started to cave in and fall over. When I redid the one hand, I used slightly dried up cake since it better supported itself.
• I would recommend cutting and frosting your cake during one sitting. This will help prevent all the moisture from escaping.
• Have fun -there are so many different directions you can take this cake given the endless varieties of Lego figures out there!

Questions? Have a Lego cake of your own to share? Let me know in the comment below! What’s your favorite Lego figurine? We have so many, it’s hard for me to choose, but I like our mad scientist complete with Erlenmeyer flask as well as our decked out pirate complete with hook hand and peg leg.