Shopping Cart
Your Cart is Empty
Quantity:
Subtotal
Taxes
Shipping
Total
There was an error with PayPalClick here to try again
CelebrateThank you for your business!You should be receiving an order confirmation from Paypal shortly.Exit Shopping Cart

Luna

Sweets

Blog

Blog

My Adventure with Wall-E

Posted on September 12, 2017 at 4:15 PM


This past weekend I worked on recreating Wall-E, the title character for the movie produced by Pixar for Walt Disney Pictures. The client wanted an off the menu flavor, opting for a chocolate cake filled with peanut butter mousse, kind of like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, yum!

From the moment I took the order I knew it will be a challenge. First, the cake needed to be lifted off the board to give the illusion that Wall-e was standing on it's own wheels. Second, the head. The huge, off to the back and sides, with the big lens eyes needed to be supported by a skinny little neck. How am I going to do this?!?!?! 

I started to get anxious as the days drew closer to the event date. I still had not figure out how I was going to pull this off. The week of had finally arrived so I couldn't waste any more time. On Monday I drew up the plans for the structure and asked Papa Sweet to build it for me. It stood 2 inches off the cake board base, in my eyes it felt like 2 stories high, ugh! my precious cake was going to be sitting up so high off the board, I thought. 


By Friday the cake was baked and I had printed out some still images of Wall-e from the film. He looked rusty, dirty so I thought I can create this look by using my airbrush gun and painting rust by hand.

Saturday I made the peanut butter mousse. I used creamy peanut butter, whipped cream, and cream cheese, it tasted divine. Why wasn't this flavor on my menu?! 

I started to tort and frost the 4 layers of chocolate cake, and covered in yellow buttercup fondant. Now it was time to know the truth, will the support Papa Sweets build would hold the heavy cake? I could only place it and hope for the best...and guess what? it worked! I was so excited! One down, two more battles to go. 

Then I made the head, arms and wheels using RKT (rice krispies treats). I molded it into the shape I wanted, proportionally to the body, frosted it and covered in fondant. RKT is not that heavy, since the cereal is mostly air. However, once you add the frosting and fondant, the pieces become really heavy in need of support and really strong "glue" to hold it together. You can just put a little edible glue and hope it will hold, I needed to take out the big guns, aka. royal icing, and support dowels. 


First thing I stock to the main body were the wheels, since they are resting on the cake board, that was easy peasy. Then I added the arms. I could feel how the "hand" was weighing down the whole thing so I added some temporary support as it dried. 


Finally, it was time for the head. Sunday morning at 3 am. Eastern Standard Time, I place the big head, with those big lens eyes on top of that skinny "neck". Wall-e looked extra sad and it wasn't his big droopy eyes. The head was tilting down as if he was looking for something that feel on the grown. I tried adjusting the head to be at eye level and then.....CRACK! the head split in two pieces right in between the eyes. The horror!!!

It was way past a decent bed time, I was exhausted and all I could do was look at the decapitated robot. My mind was so overwhelmed with sleep that I couldn't think straight. How will I fix this now? and what if I make another head and splits in two AGAIN?! 

I grabbed the last few pieces of RKT left and started sculpting the head once again. I dediced to make it a bit smaller this time to compensate for the extra weight of the frosting and fondant. I stock the eyes that I was able to salvage to the new head and tried once again. 

It was a miracle! the head stood all on its own and it looked secure with no chance of cracks. I was so happy I almost forgot that I was dead tired. So I grabbed the finished cake, put it in the fridge for the next few hours before pick up and went to bed feeling accomplished. 


The next day, the client picked up, had their party and later reached out to me and told me that I had "killed it", if only I could've said that his cake almost killed me :D


Categories: Cake Stories, Inspiration

Post a Comment

Oops!

Oops, you forgot something.

Oops!

The words you entered did not match the given text. Please try again.

61807 Comments

Reply FrefHoraProolla
1:15 PM on March 18, 2021 
payday loan lender https://paydayadvancetwin.com/ - quick payday loans online loans guaranteed payday loan https://samedayloanow.com/
Reply IncegepepFund
12:46 PM on March 18, 2021 
payday loan lead aggregator quick payday loans payday loan locations payday loan review
Reply tomboone
12:42 PM on March 18, 2021 
air jordan 28 ebay usa nike mercurial victory v shoes white red black shoes uk billig adidas x 16.1 cheap black white and silver shoes nike flyknit lunar 3 shoes yahoo billig nike air max flair on foot god billig monster energy baseball caps amazon
tomboone http://www.tomboone.net/
Reply FrefHoraProolla
12:23 PM on March 18, 2021 
how to increase your credit score fast request credit report credit scoring
Reply jesspeahkeyday
12:23 PM on March 18, 2021 
my free annual credit report https://creditscoreblk.com/ - online credit score get free credit score anual credit report free credit karma
Reply IncegepepFund
12:23 PM on March 18, 2021 
free credit scores https://freecreditscoreses.com/ - credit report social credit score free credit scores without paying get free credit score
Reply IncegepepFund
12:17 PM on March 18, 2021 
mortgage credit report https://creditscoresids.com/ best free credit report free credit ck how to check credit score for free
Reply jesspeahkeyday
12:08 PM on March 18, 2021 
https://quickpaydaypoint.com/ guaranteed payday loan mypaydayloan relief canadian payday loan easy payday loans online
Reply yeezy 350 v2
11:48 AM on March 18, 2021 
I'm just commenting to let you understand what a amazing discovery my friend's girl had browsing your web page. She mastered a good number of issues, most notably how it is like to have an amazing teaching heart to get other people effortlessly know just exactly a number of tricky matters. You actually did more than visitors' desires. Many thanks for distributing those essential, trustworthy, explanatory and in addition unique tips about the topic to Ethel.
yeezy 350 v2 http://www.yeezy-v2.com
Reply FrefHoraProolla
11:46 AM on March 18, 2021 
payday advance online payday loan quick payday loan yes payday loan review https://onlineloansinstant.com/
Reply Deloamiancenia
11:41 AM on March 18, 2021 
credit score rating get credit report - free credit report best free credit report score credit
Reply Spiral Blade Pencil Sharpener
11:22 AM on March 18, 2021 
�??��??�����?� https://kubanfss.ru/function/insurance/lechenie-za-granitsei-kak-
oformit-bolnichnyi-list
Spiral Blade Pencil Sharpener https://www.dashuostapler.com/spiral-blade-pencil-sharpener/
Reply Founnycoewdyday
11:21 AM on March 18, 2021 
credit score calculator get my credit score free credit scores without paying credit score online https://getcreditscorefast.com/ - free credit report online credit score
Reply FrefHoraProolla
11:17 AM on March 18, 2021 
how to improve my credit score https://creditscoresids.com/ free credit score now credit karma free credit report best free credit report
Reply Deloamiancenia
11:12 AM on March 18, 2021 
absolutely credit free score what is good credit score truly free credit report credit report dispute
Reply medAmonge
11:07 AM on March 18, 2021 
https://vsviagrav.com/ - viagra prescription
Reply IncegepepFund
10:57 AM on March 18, 2021 
new payday loans ace payday loan payday loan lender payday loan help
Reply jesspeahkeyday
10:48 AM on March 18, 2021 
free credit score online https://creditscorecheckn.com/ - how to get a free credit report what is a good credit score consumer credit report how to improve my credit score
Reply jesspeahkeyday
10:41 AM on March 18, 2021 
payday loan locations https://fastloanandpayday.com/ - quick online payday loans pay day loans payday loan advances payday loan reviews
Reply Founnycoewdyday
10:34 AM on March 18, 2021 
payday loan affiliates https://paydayadvancetwin.com/ national payday loan fast payday loans payday loan laws california
0