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.

61810 Comments

Reply Founnycoewdyday
4:40 PM on March 9, 2021 
buy hemp oil cbd store buy cbd oil online
Reply Deloamiancenia
4:37 PM on March 9, 2021 
cbd gummies walmart cbd oil for sale cbd tinctures
Reply jesspeahkeyday
4:33 PM on March 9, 2021 
casino slots online gambling slots for real money casino game
Reply FrefHoraProolla
4:33 PM on March 9, 2021 
https://casinoslotspc.com/ slots for real money casino online casino real money casino play
Reply Founnycoewdyday
4:33 PM on March 9, 2021 
casino games https://nodepositcasinoww.com/ play online casino slots free online casino games
Reply FrefHoraProolla
4:18 PM on March 9, 2021 
cbd hemp https://cbdoilhh.biz/ cbd drops hemp cbd cbd oil benefits
Reply Buy Essay Cheap
3:53 PM on March 9, 2021 
personal essay for college essay assignment guidelines buy an essay on retirement
Reply IncegepepFund
3:43 PM on March 9, 2021 
world class casino slots https://freeonlinecasinoslotsww.com/ - online slot games casino online no deposit casino
Reply Deloamiancenia
3:30 PM on March 9, 2021 
https://casinoslotsww.com/ slots for real money play slots real money casino online casino slots
Reply FrefHoraProolla
3:20 PM on March 9, 2021 
cbd oil for sale cbd oil for sale cbd drops full spectrum cbd oil https://buycbdoilonlinerru.biz/
Reply yeezy boost 350 v2
3:07 PM on March 9, 2021 
Thanks a lot for providing individuals with an extremely marvellous possiblity to read critical reviews from this blog. It is often so useful and also jam-packed with a great time for me personally and my office fellow workers to visit your web site on the least 3 times in 7 days to find out the latest secrets you have got. And of course, I am also certainly happy with all the cool hints you serve. Certain 3 ideas in this posting are basically the finest we have all had.
yeezy boost 350 v2 http://www.yeezy350boostv2s.us
Reply IncegepepFund
2:42 PM on March 9, 2021 
cbd oil https://purecbdok.biz/ - best cbd cbd gummies walmart cbd oil near me buy hemp oil
Reply jesspeahkeyday
2:41 PM on March 9, 2021 
cbd store https://cbdoilwow.biz/ - cbd cbd cream cbd tinctures buy cbd oil online
Reply Founnycoewdyday
2:38 PM on March 9, 2021 
hemp cbd oil cbd near me full spectrum cbd oil
Reply jordan 1
2:17 PM on March 9, 2021 
I am just writing to let you be aware of of the notable encounter my child experienced using your blog. She even learned lots of pieces, which included what it is like to have an awesome helping mindset to get the rest with no trouble understand specified specialized matters. You undoubtedly exceeded our desires. I appreciate you for showing those useful, healthy, educational not to mention easy tips about your topic to Jane.
jordan 1 http://www.jordan1shoes.us
Reply FrefHoraProolla
2:08 PM on March 9, 2021 
gold fish casino slots https://bestcasinoww.com/ - online casino play online casino free slots games
Reply Founnycoewdyday
2:08 PM on March 9, 2021 
slots online online casino bonus vegas casino slots casino games https://casinobonuscodesww.com/ - slots games
Reply jesspeahkeyday
2:08 PM on March 9, 2021 
https://casinoslotsww.com/ slots free https://onlinecasinowps.com/ - world class casino slots real casino slots
Reply Deloamiancenia
2:03 PM on March 9, 2021 
cbd oil for sale cbd gummies walmart hemp cbd full spectrum cbd oil
Reply barimar
1:58 PM on March 9, 2021 
new air jordan 9 billig buffalo bills baseball hat black and brown jordan super.fly shoes uk nike wmns lunarelite sky hi black jacquard for cheap coral gold jordan 1 billig nfl broncos hat
barimar http://www.barimar.net/
0