Celebrate Star Wars day with a galaxy ice cream cake

MAY the 4th be with you this Star Wars day, as you watch this video of Tristan Lutze making the ultimate galaxy ice cream cake.

MAY the 4th be with you. It’s Star Wars day.

And what better way to celebrate than by introducing the Galaxy Ice Cream Cake.

It might look out of this world, but it’s remarkably simple. The ice cream is just cream and condensed milk whipped together with a hand beater. A little chocolate, some food colouring a bit of swirling with a skewer and you’ve got your galaxy.

The cake sits on a crushed Oreo cookie base, colourful supernovas and other celestial activities captured in its heavenly swirls.

Nestled on this frozen mass is a white chocolate earth, flanked by sun and moon and glittering stars.

Why settle for a normal cake when you can create your own ice creamy solar system?

The galaxy cake is impressive inside and out. Picture: Tristan Lutze

RECIPE: GALAXY ICE CREAM CAKE

Makes a 20cm cake

Ingredients:

CAKE

2x sleeves (1 box) Oreo biscuits

2 tbsp melted butter

1500ml thickened cream

1x 395g tin sweetened condensed milk

1 tsp vanilla extract

4 tbsp sifted cocoa powder

Black, yellow, pink, light blue, royal blue & purple food colouring

Edible glitter

Edible silver spray

Candy star decorations

PLANETS

White chocolate

Red, yellow, green & blue food colouring

Water balloons

Method:

Line a 20cm springform tin with baking paper. Use a food processor to blitz the Oreos into a fine crumb, add the melted butter and combine. Pour mix into the lined tin and press down with a spoon until even and firm.

Combine cream, condensed milk and vanilla in a large bowl and beat with electric beaters until almost solid (this could take up to 15 minutes).

Transfer half the mix into another bowl, adding the cocoa powder, and beat for a few more seconds to combine. Add a few generous drops of black food colouring and stir, adding more colour if necessary.

Divide the remaining (non chocolate) mix into five separate bowls. Add one colour to each bowl and stir, until you have pink, yellow, light blue, royal blue and purple whipped creams.

Spoon alternating colours into the tin until full, occasionally covering with a layer of black cream. Use a skewer to drag coloured swirls through the mix, trying to reach the colours at the bottom of the tin without breaking the Oreo crust.

Transfer to freezer for at least five hours.

To make the chocolate planets, inflate a few water balloons to various sizes.

Melt white chocolate in the microwave or over a pot of simmering water and divide it evenly into five bowls. Add food colouring to each until you have a bowl of yellow, red, green and blue chocolate, as well as one of white.

The making of the planets. Picture: Tristan Lutze

Spoon a little green chocolate into the blue bowl, then dunk a balloon into it to make the Earth.

Repeat with the red and yellow, using a slightly larger balloon, to make the sun.

Dunk a balloon smaller than the first into the white chocolate to make the moon. Use clothes pegs to hang the balloons from the racks inside your fridge.

When solid, cut the ends off the balloons and carefully peel them away from the chocolate. If necessary, straighten up the edges of your chocolate planets with a knife that’s been dunked in hot water.

To assemble, take the cake from the freezer and allow to stand for 5 minutes. Carefully open the springform tin, remove it, and peel away the paper. Remove the base and the paper.

Sprinkle the top of the cake with silver powder and a spray of edible silver spray. Top with your chocolate planets and you’re ready for blast off!

Pretty impressive. Picture: Tristan Lutze

Tristan Lutze is a Sydney-based food writer and photographer. Follow him on Instagram and Facebook.