Lego Birthday for very amateur baker

[Doublethecuddles]

Has anybody got a template on how to make a large lego brick cake. I can make cakes, but really struggle with decoration.
I feel a little bit under pressure as my DD told me the best part about her birthday is the cake I make!! Every year I make a themed cake, but they never look great, as she is going to be 8 this year, she will start to notice what they really look like!!
Any help and suggestions most appreciated.

I don't have written down recipe of anything but last year i found this youtube video.

I attempted it last year but i am a very very crap at baking so it burnt didn't work out. I am trying it again this year.
You might want to fast forward past the beginning where she acts like an idiot

Thank you, I will try that.

That looks good and easy to do.....not sure I could watch her again though!!
(And it's not too hard to make a sponge from scratch rather than a packet mix)

Make a cake. Ice it. Place minifigs on top in a scene.
she gets to keep the Lego. Win-win.

My son wanted a Lego cake last year. I got some ready to roll icing in primary colours and cut the shapes so it looked like a number of Lego bricks, a bit like ayulicious-cakes.blogspot.ch/2012/12/lego-cake-for-hantaran.html?m=1this one but on a rectangular cake and a few more blocks. It was the third cake I had made and I honestly did the icing in about 20 minutes!

I made a square shaped cake, cut it in half to make a rectangle and sandwiched the 2 halves with jam, added six oreos on top as the bumps and covered it all in fondant icing...... not v professional looking, but the DCs thought it was fab!

here's a pic

oh and the ninjago one is also v easy - a round cake with a slice cut off one edge and a bit of fondant for the face/eyes and buttercream smeared over.....

What about a giant individual rectangular brick, with eight fondant dots 4 x 2 made using a round biscuit cutter. You could use a little mini tube of writing icing to write lego within each fondant dot.