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.

61795 Comments

Reply Cnc Laser Cutting And Welding Machine
5:40 PM on October 13, 2020 
Reply yeezy 700
5:34 PM on October 13, 2020 
Spot on with this write-up, I actually assume this web site wants far more consideration. I�ll in all probability be again to read much more, thanks for that info.
yeezy 700 http://www.yeezy700.us.com
Reply MarkJes
5:22 PM on October 13, 2020 
levitra 20mg india generic viagra for sale where to buy levitra over the counter buy suhagra 50 mg online viagra without a script hydroxychloroquine hydroxychloroquine tab 200mg suhagra 100mg tablet
Reply FrefHoraProolla
4:36 PM on October 13, 2020 
penny slots play free lucky 777 slots vegas casino games best online gambling sites for real money
Reply FrefHoraProolla
4:18 PM on October 13, 2020 
free penny slots with bonus spins vegas casino games free casino mgm online casino
Reply FrefHoraProolla
4:18 PM on October 13, 2020 
gambling sites bigfish casino online games free slots with no download or registration 50 lions free slots
Reply FrefHoraProolla
3:51 PM on October 13, 2020 
http://casinoslotsnse.com/# big fish casino online slot games slots games online casino games
Reply FrefHoraProolla
3:36 PM on October 13, 2020 
gsn casino games play online casino online casino games free goldfish slots no deposit bonus codes for usa players
Reply FrefHoraProolla
3:36 PM on October 13, 2020 
vegas slots online gambling sites slots free online free slots just for fun no money hot shot casino slots
Reply jesspeahkeyday
3:20 PM on October 13, 2020 
best online casinos http://casinogameww.com/# - online casino slots free online slots slots for real money
Reply Deloamiancenia
3:01 PM on October 13, 2020 
online casino real money http://casinogamesmn.com/# - slots games play slots slot games
Reply Founnycoewdyday
2:57 PM on October 13, 2020 
play online casino online casino real money free casino games online play online casino http://bestcasinoww.com/# - casino bonus codes
Reply IncegepepFund
2:56 PM on October 13, 2020 
online gambling http://casinoonlineww.com/# slots for real money online casino real money online casino games
Reply supreme shirt
2:31 PM on October 13, 2020 
There are some fascinating cut-off dates in this article however I don�t know if I see all of them middle to heart. There may be some validity but I'll take hold opinion till I look into it further. Good article , thanks and we would like more! Added to FeedBurner as effectively
supreme shirt http://www.supremesclothing.us.org
Reply FrefHoraProolla
1:57 PM on October 13, 2020 
http://casinoslotsmnt.com/# play free lucky 777 slots play blackjack for free doubledown casino bonus collector
Reply FrefHoraProolla
1:41 PM on October 13, 2020 
play free slot free casino games for fun caesars online casino 888 casino online
Reply FrefHoraProolla
1:41 PM on October 13, 2020 
casino near me http://onlinecasinos911.com/# hollywood casino online slots free lady luck online casino old vegas slots
Reply FrefHoraProolla
12:55 PM on October 13, 2020 
win free money no deposit slots games free slot games with no download pompeii slots
Reply FrefHoraProolla
12:55 PM on October 13, 2020 
http://onlinecasinos911.com/# slots online play slots for real money slots online
Reply Essay Writer Reviews
11:50 AM on October 13, 2020 
online paper writer i need someone to do my homework
0