Screw marshmallows
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
So Conrad is celebrating his 7th birthday, a few weeks late, with a few boys from his class at the Lego store this weekend and his cake request has been, naturally, LEGO. But all the Lego cakes we’ve seen call for marshmallows that you have to cut in half. Cutting a marshmallow is as much fun as cutting a California roll, they get sticky and lopsided, the frosting looks messy, at least in my hands. It can be defeating. So I decided to experiment with some candy we had at home and tada: Two Starbursts frosted together with six mini M&Ms. The secret ingredient is a William Sonoma Decorating Pen that allows you to be precise with the gluing.
I plan on doing cupcakes with one “Lego brick” on top but of course as soon as Conrad saw these he said, “Oh so can you do a really long flat cake and make a whole bunch of those and I can build something?!”
Uh maybe?