Take a look at these cool homemade Darth Vader cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
My nephew requested a Star Wars-themed cake for his 8th birthday. I decided to try to do something similar to the fondant-covered Storm Trooper cake but with Darth Vader which I copied from a Darth Vader picture. I layered two 9 X 13 sheet cakes (baked from store-bought mix) with store-bought frosting in between. Using … Read more
Two eight inch round chocolate cakes torted with chocolate buttercream covered in midnight blue vanilla buttercream. Red and orange vanilla buttercream ruffle border, white and black fondant Darth Vader mask. To make the mask, find a picture, blow it up on the computer to size you need, print it out, cut out outline for white … Read more
The Darth Vader helmet cake was made from a chocolate cake with peanut butter cream filling and butter cream surrounded, with fondant covering. Started with an 8″ cake on the bottom, 6″ in the middle, and round/ball cake for the top. Crumb coated whole thing then, carved out the general shapes for the face, then … Read more
This Darth Vader birthday cake is the cake I made for my son Matteo, who is now 12. He ‘s becoming a rebel pre-adolescent. Not a bad one, but he always finds a way of arguing on everything I ask from him. That’s why I’m used to call him Anakin. I thought that a Darth Vader cake would … Read more
This Darth Vader Helmet cake was made for a birthday man within 3 days of notice! I really had to pull magic out for this one! I stacked about four 9 inch cakes and two 6×2 inch cakes and carved a simple formation of a would be Darth Vader helmet. Flavor was strawberry with strawberry filling, butter cream and covered in black … Read more
My stepson has gone crazy for Star Wars this year and wanted a Darth Vader themed seventh birthday party. I looked through tons of cake ideas online and could not find a design that I wanted to work with. I have had terrible experience with black icing, not in the decoration but in what color … Read more
First I’d like to say thanks to all the people who gave their ideas on this site. I made this Darth Vader birthday cake after looking at your lovely cakes for my son Jake on his 6th birthday. I borrowed his Darth Vader helmet and placed 3 layers of tin foil over it to make … Read more
And it would leave plenty of space to write a message. Good luck on your future cakes!
What to bake for a 35 year old? Obviously a Darth Vadar cake! The idea came to me from seeing the cake tin advertised on Firebox.com. My boyfriend loves all things Star Wars and I knew he would appreciate this. I was concerned about how the cake would come out in the mold so didn’t … Read more
This is a Darth Vader cake that I copied from a cake on your website. It was the first time that I ever attempted fondant, so it is not great, but it was fun to make and I am pretty proud of it. I used home made marshmallow fondant which was easy to use, but … Read more
