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.

61771 Comments

Reply Quick Loan
7:12 AM on May 31, 2021 
loan money online
Reply cicshedscit
7:05 AM on May 31, 2021 
https://isotroinisotretinoin.com/ isotretinoin isotretinoin i pledge accutane program isotretinoin
Reply pesyAdebyfemHed
7:00 AM on May 31, 2021 
chloroquine hydrochloride https://hydroxychloroquine30.com/ plaquenil medication hydroxychloroquine side effects hydroxychloroquine for sale
Reply pesyAdebyfemHed
6:59 AM on May 31, 2021 
hydroxychloroquine uses https://hydroxychloroqui.com/ - hydroxychloride medicine aralen retail price is hydroxychloroquine chloroquine generic
Reply Theatesaccusa
6:50 AM on May 31, 2021 
roaccutane side effects https://sotretisotretinoin.com/ - isotretinoina roaccutane roaccutane accutane coupon
Reply cicshedscit
6:48 AM on May 31, 2021 
https://prednisoloneprednisolone.com/ prednisolon https://prednisoloneprednisolone.com/ - prednisolone warnings does prednisone raise blood pressure
Reply FrefHoraProolla
6:45 AM on May 31, 2021 
modalert online https://getmodafinilnow.com/ modafinil 200mg provigil cost flmodafinil
Reply sammongroup
6:44 AM on May 31, 2021 
nike youth frank ragnow limited blue jersey detroit lions nfl 77 therma long sleeve adidas eqt boonie air jordan 6 golden state warriors hockey astro trainers ladies chicago white sox kids stars and stripes 59fifty cap nike brandon thompson youth orange elite jersey 98 nfl alternate cincinnati bengals
sammongroup https://www.sammongroup.net/
Reply JudyJes
6:43 AM on May 31, 2021 
pharmacy coupons stromectol for humans 25 mg tadalafil where to buy viagra over the counter in canada plaquenil weight loss cheap viagra online in india how to buy cialis online in australia generic viagra 2018 provigil medication where to buy generic propecia
Reply ambupAni
6:42 AM on May 31, 2021 
24 hr pharmacy walgreens pharmacy bernie sanders canada drugs
Reply chrome hearts online store
6:41 AM on May 31, 2021 
My husband and i ended up being satisfied when Louis could carry out his homework with the ideas he received out of your web page. It is now and again perplexing to simply find yourself giving for free tricks that many people today may have been trying to sell. And we all figure out we have the blog owner to be grateful to for that. The entire explanations you made, the easy site navigation, the relationships your site help to promote - it's mostly sensational, and it is aiding our son and our family reckon that that concept is satisfying, and that's highly vital. Thank you for the whole thing!
chrome hearts online store http://www.chromeheartstoreonline.com
Reply stone island
6:40 AM on May 31, 2021 
I wish to express thanks to the writer for bailing me out of this crisis. Right after browsing throughout the online world and finding ways that were not helpful, I figured my life was done. Existing without the presence of approaches to the issues you've sorted out by way of the website is a crucial case, as well as the ones which may have adversely affected my entire career if I hadn't come across your web blog. The mastery and kindness in dealing with all the stuff was valuable. I don't know what I would have done if I had not encountered such a stuff like this. I can at this time look ahead to my future. Thank you so much for your reliable and sensible guide. I will not be reluctant to suggest your web page to anyone who should get support on this situation.
stone island http://www.stone-island.us.com
Reply Deloamiancenia
6:39 AM on May 31, 2021 
side effects for modafinil armodafinil what is modafinil where to buy modafinil https://modafinilok.com/ - provigil dosage
Reply pesyAdebyfemHed
6:31 AM on May 31, 2021 
chloroquine for lupus https://plaquenil-hydroxychloroquine.com/ - chloroquine phosphate online hydroxychloroquine covid online doctor to prescribe hydroxychloroquine https://plaquenil-hydroxychloroquine.com/
Reply Theatesaccusa
6:25 AM on May 31, 2021 
online dissertation writing service essay generator how to do your homework https://essaywritingeie.com/
Reply pesyAdebyfemHed
6:24 AM on May 31, 2021 
https://chloroquine500mg.com/ doctors prescribing hydroxychloroquine near me https://chloroquine500mg.com/ - clorochina hydroxyquine
Reply pesyAdebyfemHed
6:11 AM on May 31, 2021 
chloroquine over the counter https://hydroxychloroquin1mg.com/ - chlorochin plaquenil hydroxychloroquine side effects how to make hydroxychloroquine
Reply ClarkGak
6:11 AM on May 31, 2021 
cloroquine
https://chloroquineorigin.com/# - generic chloroquine phosphate
hydroxy cloroquine
https://hydroxychloroquinex.com/# - hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg
erectile dementia
https://plaquenilx.com/# - plaquenil sulfate
tadalafil e20 pill
https://tadalisxs.com/# - order tadalafil
medications zithromax
https://zithromaxes.com/# - how to buy zithromax online
Reply golden goose shoes
6:06 AM on May 31, 2021 
I precisely needed to appreciate you yet again. I do not know what I would have undertaken without the actual concepts provided by you directly on this question. Certainly was an absolute depressing dilemma in my circumstances, nevertheless observing a well-written manner you treated it took me to weep for joy. I'm just grateful for this service and in addition hope you really know what a great job you are always putting in training many others all through your webblog. More than likely you have never met any of us.
golden goose shoes http://www.goldengoosesneakers.us.org
Reply TexTamimponna
6:05 AM on May 31, 2021 
modafinil 200mg provigil dosage modalert 200 side effects for modafinil https://modafinilpleasure.com/ - modafinilo
0