The Ultimate Star Wars Feast

A long time ago, in a kitchen far far away... I made a ridiculous amount of geek food for a friend's birthday dinner.

When I had asked him what he'd like for dinner, telling him I'd make him anything, he had said he trusted me to make an amazing meal and he just had one request. Could it be Star Wars themed?

My roommate (his girlfriend) and I both stared for a second before smiling like fools. This was suddenly a present for ME! I am pretty sure my answer was "I guess I could deal with that" and inside I was doing excited cooking cartwheels.

Not surprisingly, I then got carried away. The facebook event was sent out to our friends, ("When 900 years you reach, cook this good you will not"), the grocery list got astounding, and I piped more geeky icing in one sitting than ever before.

I'll explain each piece on their own individual page. I tried to get this up and posted by May Fourth (For May the Fourth be with you) and then again for Revenge of the 5th but, it was too many photos to edit and recipes to upload. However, you'll find the entire menu below. May the force be with you.

Blue Milk Cocktail

Yoda Swamp Soda

Death Star Ritz Crackers

Sarlacc Pizza Dip

Tauntaun Guts

Battlefield Squash Lasagna 

Boba Feta Salad

Jabba's Frog Guts (The Favorite in Taste- I swear!)

Assorted Galactic Cheesecakes (Death Star, Chewie, Yoda)

Cloud City Taffy Apple Salad

Assorted Cookies & Cream Cupcakes (Lei & Ewoks)

Assorted Choco-Peanut Cupcakes (Darth, C3PO, R2D2)

Han-clair Carbonite Cake (Favorite Geek Reference & Dessert)

Strawberry Jar Jar Binks Cheesecake

*UPDATE* All the links here are now working! I'll update the posts where the recipes aren't working/links aren't working tonight! My apologies!

Assorted Galactic Cheesecakes

YAY CHEESECAKES! I took this plain recipe for Cheesecake which I used for the Jar Jar Cheesecake and made three different flavors by separating them into mixing bowls and pouring into mini cheesecake pans. 

The Death Star has the addition of chocolate chips. I piped it with black icing after smearing it with some gray/blue icing. 

The Chewie cheesecake is made with nutella and chocolate chips.

And Yoda! Aw, Yoda. My favorite character, so ugly he's cute. This is a key lime cheesecake. I juiced some key limes and zested them into the cheesecake batter. 

All the cheesecakes have a graham cracker crust. 

Make and enjoy :)

Jabba's Frog Guts

WAIT NO! KEEP READING! I SWEAR THIS ISN'T FROG! OR ALREADY DIGESTED FOOD! 

IT'S MEATBALL WITH PESTO! PLEASE STAY!

See? Not so gross taken in context. Pesto. Confetti meatballs.

Super yummy.

Everyone at the party was staring at me like I was crazy when this crock pot full of green goo presented itself. 

"It's like the frogs that Jabba is always eating!" I exclaimed. They still stared at me like I was crazy. I bullied a few into taking a few bites though and then, suddenly, they were gone! Inhaled.

Everyone said they were their favorite thing there. Everyone. out of 16 people, everyone said they loved these.

So, see? You need to make them. The recipe is here for the meatballs. I had originally planned on being super cutesy and making them shaped like frogs but, when I tried to put them in my frog molds I made a disastrous mess. So! Just normal meatballs it was.

Serve with some pesto sauce and enjoy. 

Boba Feta Salad

This is a simple greek salad. It's a lot of feta, greek dressing, sun dried tomatoes, red peppers, and some croutons I made up. They are shaped like stars and I TRIED to make these ones look like the ships. Some fighters and the MF.

Can anyone kinda see that?

Just me then. Awesome. Well! You can at least see the stars. And appreciate the rest. To make croutons: cut out bread with cutters. Brush with butter and olive oil on both sides. Sprinkle with oregano, basil, and some salt. Broil until golden, approx 2-3 mins. 

Enjoy :)

Battlefield Squah Lasagna

So, this was my favorite thing made. Look how pretty it looks non-geeky.

I found the recipe from Martha. It was SOOOOOOO good.

And I found the LEGO characters and ship at target.

It turned out delicious and SO SO fun. Please make this. I love it. I am going to make it again once I find a butternut squash that is already diced up. It was a horrific trial to cut it up. I hate squash now. Working with it made me want to die.

So. I'll make it again when I find some butternut that I can work with. This is amazing tho. Try it out.

Sarlacc Pizza Dip

This dip caused a shocking amount of debate amongst my friend.

Should the clam-shell like Sarlacc be present? Or should it be old school and just filled with tentacles? 

What do you guys think?

Either way, this recipe from Noble Pig was amazing. You NEED to make it. Some Pilsbury bread sticks were manipulated into the shell and tentacles. So good...

Strawberry Jar Jar Binks Cheesecake

Everyone hated this dessert.

Not because it tasted bad. Just because of the Jar Jar things about it. And Jar Jar needs to be cut into pieces.

This is a plain cheesecake recipe I found here. I made it, chopped in about a container of strawberries, piped Jar Jar on, and put a fruit by the foot tongue on the whole thing. I loved it, the foot tongue made me endlessly happy.

As did cutting up his face. He's annoying but, he tasted divine.

Han-Clair Carbonite Cake

So remember this recipe I made here? Yes. It's my favorite. I made it for this party and put a Han solo action figure in it. And then I dusted it with powdered sugar. 

Look how yummy those layers are. Ignore the tortured Han hand peeking out and just be amazed by the yummy dessert here.

This is powdered Han. I liked how it looked a little bit later when the sugar dissolved into the chocolate. 

Here we are slightly dissolved.

He's all frozen in the chocolate equivalent of Carbonite. Color me obsessed with this dessert.

Freedom! Messy messy freedom. 

Make and enjoy this! I SERIOUSLY love it!!!!!! :)

Assorted Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Cupcakes

These are Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcakes that are filled with Chocolate Covered, Peanut Butter, filled Pretzels. Yep. Long name.

In the shape of C3PO, Darth, and R2D2. They look just as good cut up as they do geeked.

Look at that filling. Yummm. They are next to my Cookies and Cream Cupcakes which I decorated to look like Lei and Ewoks. Way WAY too much fun.

To make C3P0, I iced the cupcake with yellow icing, pipped some details with orange, and then put two orange pretzel M&Ms on as eyes. I added some black for eyes and a line'd mouth. 

Saw these on this pic on flickr and decided I could make something like it. I piped the sabers, rolled a Reisen flat, cut it up into the shape of a helmet, and iced on the Darth details. It worked like a charm! And then I had a lot of the chocolate caramels left at the party. 

See? Yum.

R2D2 cupcakes! They are just iced freehand. Turned out fun. I beeped a lot while serving.