Lego cake

This year, my nephew wanted a Lego cake for his 6th birthday. He wanted a cake were his little plastic Lego men could 'peel' away the fondant on the cake.

I was also EXTREMELY excited to try a new technique to create Lego blocks. I have made Lego cakes and cupcake toppers previously, but while they looked great, making each block individually (each with 4-6 individually pegs on top) was very time consuming... So I decided to make a mold of a real Lego block to help me replicate fondant blocks much much faster. I knew I would be making many more Lego cakes in the future so decided it was worth the $13 mold kit investment ;) I used a food safe silicone mold making kit (purchased at my local craft/hobby store). I borrowed a few of my nephews Legos in various sizes and followed the kit instructions. It was very simple.

 I made one mold of 3 Legos with their regular thickness (for cupcakes and random pieces, to mimic real Legos) and one mold of 3 Legos with a very shallow thickness (I used this on top of the cake). Looks like a pile of real plastic Lego pieces, right? :)