"StarWars" news and stories

Have I mentioned how much of a geek I am? Well, just in case I haven't, now you know. I just love it when two of my passions cross over each other, especially when the results are this great!

Check out the post on Gizmodo for the whole story, but this is a wedding cake for, you guessed it, a Star Wars wedding. It's hard to tell how much of it is edible, exactly, but some of the details are amazing. The chef who made this cake used camera lens with a blue bulb behind it for R2's sensor for added realism. Have you ever seen a geek-y cake this awesome? I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks to an Instructable I now remember why and how Han Solo was encased in carbonite. I should also presumably know how to make a dark chocolate bar that resembles the smuggler after Jabba the Hutt encased him in carbonite. I say should because I'm not sure whether I'm handy enough to make the mold.

That said, Chris Koehne provides three relatively simple steps. The first is creating the mold itself using food-grade silicone, the second is melting and pouring the chocolate and obviously the last is removing it from the mold. Koehne made the chocolate bar as a gift for his brother. He's yet to announce any plans to make a chocolate Jabba the Hutt.
[via Neatorama]