Star Wars Light Saber Cupcakes

Hello everyone!! I hope you have all been having a great week! I am continuing on with my Star Wars Party series today with what could arguably be the most important part of the party - THE CAKE!!! {You can find Part 1 - Light Saber Invitations and Part 2 - Star Wars Party Food here and here}

For those of you that don't know me too well, I am about the furthest thing from a baker that you can find.  I don't really enjoy it and I am definitely not very good at it.  BUT, I do always try to make my kids' birthday cakes.  A searched the Internet for some Star Wars cake ideas and boy, oh boy, are there a TON of fabulous cakes out there.  {If you are looking for more ideas, you can check out my Pinterest party board.}

I was planning on{and dreading!} doing an R2-D2 cake similar to this one.

I had it all planned out and then Connor spotted these light saber cupcakes while I was browsing Pinterest and decided that he wanted those.  Hours and hours compared to less than an hour? Um, okay!! 

So here was our final light saber "cake".

It is definitely nothing fancy, but Connor thought that it was cool and, really, that's all that matters.

I had lots of extra candies on hand and the kids had fun decorating their own with as many different candies as possible.

I had sparklers on the cake instead of candles. 

It looked pretty cool all lit up and Connor had lots of opportunities to "blow out" his candles {and we also got to experience the excitement of our smoke alarm going off!}

I must say, I really like cupcakes rather than cake at parties.  They are just so much easier!!  Here are a couple of other cute cupcake ideas.

TIE Fighter Cupcakes from Birthday Cakes Guide.

Chewbacca Cupcakes from Disney Family.

Such cute ideas if you are somewhat talented in the cake decorating category.  Me, not so much.

May the force be with you until next time!

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