How do I make a mould to use with food

[notasausage]

I want to make a lego theme cake. How do I make a mould of a lego base board that I can then use to get icing of the same texture???

Or does anyone have suggestions for doing this without using a mould - it's the only way I can think of but I'm no sugar craft/cake decorating whiz?

That sounds really difficult...all those tiny bits of icing potentially getting stuck in a mould! But I am no whizz at these things, so just bumping for you.

I am no expert either but maybe you could buy a really tiny circle icing cutter & cut lots of small circles that you could then use to make the nobbly bits on lego pieces.

Would still take ages.

Couldnt you just stick a couple of lego men on the top?

I would suggest duplo or quattro might be an easier scale, but no idea how to make the mould. Will watch with interest though. Please let us know how you do it!

I thought this was going to be a thread about making your own blue cheese!

This has really got me thinking! You could roll a thin 'sausage' of icing and then cut bits off with a very sharp knife and stick them all on. I am assuing if the 'lego base board' is just round the edge of the cake then you wouldn't have to do too much of it!

However, I would also go with the putting some lego on top of a cake!! You could make the icing into lego colours, so the lego was almost growing out of the cake...

Could you make it so the whole cake was one 2x2 lego brick? Could ice a deep square cake, then use a biscuit cutter to make 4 nobbly bits for the top?
In a lovely bright colour it would be very simple but look fantastic.

Would it work to use the underside of an actual lego base as a template and then freeze it so it can be removed....have no idea whethe that would work and does icing freeze?
[ignore me emoticon]

I made a lego cake last month.

I made it as one huge square block. I stacked two fairly slim sqare cakes on top of each other. I then made four chunky disks out of roll on icing to put on top and then covered the whole thing with roll on icing. It took a while to get the icing to go smoothly round each of the 4 bumps, but it was fine. Oh and I always put lots of chocolate ganache on in between the cake and the icing to make it smootheer and yummier.

worked really well

Yay! muddeduck- great minds think alike

Or you could get a mould likethis one.

Hmmm, might be back to the drawing board...... Thanks for the suggestions