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.

61813 Comments

Reply jesspeahkeyday
2:03 AM on January 17, 2021 
https://viagrmypill.com/ cheap viagra viagra for sale buy sildenafil viagra for sale
Reply IncegepepFund
1:36 AM on January 17, 2021 
https://cbdhempoildk.com/ buy hemp oil amazon cbd oil cbd gummies near me cbd effects
Reply FrefHoraProolla
1:21 AM on January 17, 2021 
cbd stores near me https://cbdoilwalmartiss.com/ - where can i buy cbd oil medterra cbd cbd cream for pain relief what does cbd do
Reply FrefHoraProolla
1:10 AM on January 17, 2021 
https://viagrmypill.com/ viagra price buy viagra online viagra viagra for sale
Reply jesspeahkeyday
1:02 AM on January 17, 2021 
just cbd gummies https://cbdtincturesui.com/ cbd oil near me cbd oil for sale joy organics cannabis tincture
Reply Deloamiancenia
12:47 AM on January 17, 2021 
cheap viagra https://viagrmypill.com/ - viagra price viagra prices buy sildenafil
Reply Founnycoewdyday
12:45 AM on January 17, 2021 
american shaman cbd cbd oil for sleep cbd oil prices
Reply IncegepepFund
12:38 AM on January 17, 2021 
https://cbdoilwalmartiss.com/ cbd oil near me https://cbdoilwalmartiss.com/ - cannabis tincture nuleaf naturals
Reply Deloamiancenia
12:12 AM on January 17, 2021 
cbd oils cbd todohemp cbd drops buy cbd
Reply Deloamiancenia
12:12 AM on January 17, 2021 
cbd for sleep cbd products cbd gummies store
Reply FrefHoraProolla
12:00 AM on January 17, 2021 
cbd benefits https://cbdhempoildk.com/ - cbd oil buy cbd oil best cbd oil for pain cbd oil at walmart https://cbdhempoildk.com/
Reply IncegepepFund
11:37 PM on January 16, 2021 
viagra no prescription https://viagrmypill.com/ - viagra no prescription generic viagra buy viagra viagra
Reply Deloamiancenia
11:32 PM on January 16, 2021 
https://cbdoilwalmartiss.com/ cbdistillery cannabinoid what is a tincture cbd effects
Reply jesspeahkeyday
11:20 PM on January 16, 2021 
https://hempcbdoilgh.com/ cannabis oil cbd oil buy cbd oil cbd oils cbd oil near me
Reply Founnycoewdyday
11:19 PM on January 16, 2021 
cbd for sale cbdmd cbd oil for sale full spectrum cbd https://cbdoilwalmartiss.com/ - cbd md
Reply jesspeahkeyday
11:11 PM on January 16, 2021 
medterra cbd oil cbd cream for pain relief royal cbd
Reply jesspeahkeyday
11:02 PM on January 16, 2021 
https://cbdoilwalmartiss.com/ cbd cream for pain relief best cbd products cbd oil todohemp best cbd products
Reply kyrie irving shoes
10:53 PM on January 16, 2021 
My wife and i got more than happy that Edward could round up his investigation by way of the ideas he was given from your web pages. It is now and again perplexing to just possibly be giving out tips which often men and women could have been making money from. And we also understand we've got you to be grateful to for that. The explanations you've made, the easy blog navigation, the friendships you will give support to foster - it's everything terrific, and it's really letting our son in addition to us feel that this article is entertaining, which is incredibly mandatory. Many thanks for everything!
kyrie irving shoes http://www.kyrieirving-shoes.us.com
Reply IncegepepFund
10:52 PM on January 16, 2021 
https://viagrmypill.com/ buy viagra viagra for sale buy sildenafil buy viagra pills
Reply FrefHoraProolla
10:33 PM on January 16, 2021 
cbd for sale cannabinoid cbd gummies walmart cbd hemp oil https://hempcbdoilgh.com/ - royal cbd
0