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  • Today we are making a lego city police station cake at the request of my youngest.

  • To start with we need to make a lego texture mat. Take a lego base board and make a border

  • around the edge using lego bricks. Then heat up some reusable food grade molding gel.

  • Pour it in and tip it and spread it until it goes all the way to the edges. Then let

  • that cool and set. For the frosting take one batch of vanilla

  • buttercream and mix it with a cooled batch of milk chocolate ganache.

  • I'll put all of the recipe quantities for this on the website howtocookthat.net in grams

  • and ounces and cups. You will also need two trays of chocolate

  • cake, baked, cooled and leveled. Place your template on top and cut around

  • the shape of the first building. And the template is also available on the website.

  • Place it on a spare cake board or a plate and add a thin layer of frosting. Then continue

  • to stack up those layers of cake until they match the height of the front template.

  • Then cover the whole thing in frosting.

  • Repeat that in the same way for the next two buildings layering them up and then covering

  • them in frosting. Then place them in the fridge for the frosting to chill and firm so that

  • they are a bit more stable.

  • By now your molding gel should be set, remove the bricks from the edge and peel it off from

  • the base board. And you now have a nice lego texture mat.

  • Place some light grey fondant over a cake board and roll it out fairly thinly. Add the

  • texture mat over the top and using the rolling pin press down firmly all over the surface

  • . Then simply peel it off.

  • Take a knife and trim around the edges of your board. And we now have our lego base

  • board.

  • Take some more light grey fondant and use the texture mat to make an impression.

  • Then using a pizza cutter cut out a 7 x 8 rectangle. Then cut out a section from the

  • top of that and base to make the letter for the helipad. Use the side of your knife just

  • to straighten up the sides because lego doesn't bend.

  • Roll out some black and put the texture mat over the top.

  • Then using the shapes that you used for the cake cut out one of those for the top of each

  • building, making then a little larger to allow for frosting and fondant on the sides.

  • Repeat that process to make some green 2 by 10's that we'll use for grass. And again just

  • use you knife to make sure it is straight on the edges.

  • Roll out some yellow and grey fondant. Rub a little water on the yellow and add the grey

  • to the top. Slice it into little pieces the size of a

  • two by one. These will be the lights for around the top of the building.

  • Now lets make the windows for the police office building. Roll out some white and cut it out

  • using the templates. Remember that you need to do the front one side and the back too.

  • I just have the front and one side here. Mark off the centre line with a slight indent and

  • add a vertical line too. Using a dry brush add some gold luster dust

  • in each window corner and then brush blue over the top of the whole thing.

  • Add some strips of white across the base of each window. You'll need to dampen the back

  • of the fondant to make it stick. Then trim it to size.

  • Cut a strip of blue and place it across the top of each window.

  • Then place a strip of blue up between each window and along the edges.

  • Now for the prison cut out some black fondant and brush with a little silver luster dust.

  • Then rub a little water across to dampen that fondant. Roll a snake of light grey and place

  • it across, using your template as a guide for where to put those bars. Add them on the

  • bottom windows and then going down the centre of each window. Then add strips of grey down

  • and strips of grey across. Cut a strip of white and add that across the top. Add another

  • one along the bottom of the jail cell and then add a thinner strip down each side on

  • two of the jail sides only, don't do it on all four of them.

  • For the garage door. Cut a square of white then make indents across

  • and down. Brush it over with blue luster dust and add a strip of white across the top.

  • Roll out some blue using the lego on the sides to guid how thick it needs to be.

  • Then cut some strips the width of a two block.

  • Roll out some thin strips of white and add them to the top of the front fondant police

  • station part.

  • To the other smaller front bit add a strip one side and a half a strip to the other smaller

  • front bit and leave the last one plain.

  • Using edible white food colouring write police down the front of the blue support.

  • For the police sign Cut a square of white and put two blue strips across the top. All

  • of these fondant details can be made up to a month ahead which will give them time to

  • dry out. If you need to make it for a cake today or tomorrow then add some tylose powder

  • to the fondant which will make it dry out faster.

  • Add the cake for the police station onto the cake board. Then add the two smaller pieces,

  • followed by the front one. Now put a strip of white along the corner there using a little

  • water to hold it in place. Add the side and then the back of the station.

  • Add the black roof on top and then add a strip of white to cover the join.

  • For the jail add the piece that has white sides, followed by one that does not. Repeat

  • with the other two. Then add strips of white the the two sides that need it. Then add the

  • black roof on top. Choose the best side of the jail and add it

  • into place next to the police station. Cover the whole garage in white fondant then

  • add the door to the front and the roof to the top. Then add a strip of blue along the

  • edges and add it into place. Add your fondant grass piece out the front.

  • Use some spaghetti to support the lights while they set. Just use a little bit of water on

  • the back of the fondant to join them onto the cake.

  • Add the front of the station, again you may need to use a little spaghetti to support

  • it while it's drying out and joining on. Use edible marker to write the police sign

  • and add it to the top of the jail.

  • Add some strips of blue and the helipad to the top of the police station and a cylinder

  • of white and red. The next day remove that spaghetti.

  • And add a lego police car and robber and policeman out the front.

  • And your lego city cake is complete. If you have a helicopter you can add that on the

  • helipad too.

  • Big one, blow Yay

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