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C3PX
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Proof I was obsessed with Star Wars, even then...
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26-Feb-2008, 11:27 PM
For one of my birthdays when I was a kid, I had a Darth Vader cake. It was made out a cake pan exactly like the one shown in the bottom of this link of a list of crappy Star Wars collectables.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ashen1/ashen/menu/swars.htm

It was pretty cool actually. The cake came out with great detail. It was a chocolate cake and it looked great, but that was before the icing had been applied... the problem was my mom was not skilled at applying fancy frosting patterns as instructed on the paper that came with the cake pan, so when the icing was spread over it the detail is buried and now you just have a cake somewhat in the shape of Vaders helmet. The frostings default color was white (powdered sugar based) and food coloring was added to make it dark. How do you make black frosting? By mixing all the colors together... erm... maybe not. The frosting came out a dark moss green color... so I had a cake with moss green frosting that was somewhat shaped like Vader helmet, but you wouldn't have caught on had you not been told. Needless to say, it wasn't the hippest birthday party to begin with, and the cake certianly didn't help things out any. But none of that mattered because I got this awesome toy Rancor with a little button in the back that made his mouth open and close. That Rancor was destined to become one of my favorite SW toys ever, right next to my Death Star playset, my AT-AT walker, and of course my Millenium Falcon. Heh, I just remembered that my toy Rancor once accidentally swallowed one of my Jawa figures, I had a really hard time getting him back out too.