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.

61822 Comments

Reply Founnycoewdyday
11:29 AM on February 7, 2021 
best cbd oil cbd hemp cbd oil store cbd oil online
Reply jesspeahkeyday
11:02 AM on February 7, 2021 
buy cbd oil cdb oils cbd pills
Reply FrefHoraProolla
11:00 AM on February 7, 2021 
viagra for sale buy viagra online buy viagra pills viagra pills https://viagrafirst.com/
Reply Deloamiancenia
10:56 AM on February 7, 2021 
cbd products http://cbdoilwalmartiss.com/# pure cbd cbd hemp cdb oils
Reply golden goose outlet
10:48 AM on February 7, 2021 
My husband and i were now ecstatic Raymond managed to finish off his inquiry through the precious recommendations he received when using the blog. It is now and again perplexing to just possibly be freely giving hints that a number of people might have been trying to sell. And we all fully understand we've got the website owner to thank for that. These explanations you've made, the easy blog menu, the friendships you can give support to promote - it's got most astounding, and it's facilitating our son in addition to our family feel that that matter is cool, and that is especially serious. Thanks for all the pieces!
golden goose outlet http://www.goldengooseoutletstore.com
Reply IncegepepFund
10:44 AM on February 7, 2021 
cannabis oil cbd gummies walmart cbd
Reply IncegepepFund
10:41 AM on February 7, 2021 
play online casino slots free vegas slots online
Reply jesspeahkeyday
10:36 AM on February 7, 2021 
buy cannabis oil http://cbdtincturesew.com/# - hemp cbd hemp cbd oil hemp cbd oil buy cbd oil
Reply FrefHoraProolla
10:29 AM on February 7, 2021 
http://cannabisoilhemp.com/# cannabis oil cbd pills cbd oil store cbd drops
Reply IncegepepFund
10:28 AM on February 7, 2021 
buy cbd cbd oil for sale cbd tinctures
Reply Founnycoewdyday
10:14 AM on February 7, 2021 
pure cbd oil cbd oils cbd oil benefits buy cbd oil http://cannabisoilstoretv.com/# - medterra cbd
Reply Deloamiancenia
10:14 AM on February 7, 2021 
buy hemp oil http://cbdoilhh.com/# - buy hemp oil buy cannabis oil cbd oil near me cbd oil near me
Reply Founnycoewdyday
10:11 AM on February 7, 2021 
cbd gummies walmart cbd oil near me cbd pure buy hemp oil http://buycbdoilfo.com/# - cbd hemp
Reply FrefHoraProolla
10:10 AM on February 7, 2021 
https://onlinecasinos911.com/ casino online https://onlinecasinos911.com/ - online casino slots online casinos
Reply lebron shoes
10:06 AM on February 7, 2021 
I enjoy you because of your whole hard work on this web site. My niece take interest in going through investigation and it is easy to see why. All of us hear all about the compelling mode you create worthwhile ideas via this web site and therefore foster contribution from some other people on the concern and our own daughter is now becoming educated a lot of things. Take pleasure in the rest of the new year. You're performing a really great job.
lebron shoes http://www.lebronjames.us.com
Reply IncegepepFund
10:01 AM on February 7, 2021 
http://bestcbdoiltws.com/# best cbd http://hempcbdoilgh.com/# - pure cbd oil cbd oil for sale
Reply FrefHoraProolla
9:47 AM on February 7, 2021 
https://viagrafirst.com/ viagra no prescription viagra prices viagra pills buy viagra pills
Reply Deloamiancenia
9:32 AM on February 7, 2021 
http://cbdoilforpainrx.com/# buy hemp oil http://cbdoilonlinerr.com/# - medterra cbd cdb oils
Reply Deloamiancenia
9:29 AM on February 7, 2021 
casino game online casino vegas slots online free online slots https://onlinecasinos911.com/ - play casino
Reply Best Online Loans
9:21 AM on February 7, 2021 
bad credit online payday loans quality loan service quick money loan today easy cash advance easy loan loans with no credit
0