The Star Wars Mos Eisley Cantina - Made With Rice Krispies!

One thing I love about baking is that it allows you to combine two different loves in one. One of them is cooking/baking, of course, and the other is whatever topic takes your fancy. Here we’ve got one of my own geeky loves thrown in; Star Wars!

This fantastic creation is a small scale replica of the Mos Eisley Cantina from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The food element is that all the walls are made from Rice Krispies and snicker doodles stacked on a Styrofoam base; the bar made from cookies. There's even a tiny MP3 player and speaker under the dome area that's playing the music the band are playing in the film.

Creator TK Peggy even populated the Cantina with Hasbro Star Wars action figures, so you've the band playing in one corner while Han Solo sits in a booth with his weapon drawn against Greedo (Greedo is holding his too, but who shot first?). You can see even more pictures and get the full instructions of how to make it yourself over on her blog.

I love it when people put such attention to detail into their baking, and this just lights the fire of my inner geek (although it is very much rather an outer geek, and I'm proud of that!). I'm now just waiting for someone to make a Death Star out of chocolate cake!