Okay, so I lied, it’s not really a Wall-E cake. This little guy was made out of brownies (mmm decadent Ghirardelli chocolate brownie mix) but either way it is a baked good, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class robot which is just delightful (and awesome). Not everything is edible however. The neck, head, and arms are all made of cardboard but still, you gotta admit: this is pretty cool.
Why?
Over the weekend, a friend and I decided to make a super epic cake for a birthday celebration dessert night. Both being huge fans of Wall-E, we needed an excuse to make the “Wall-E Cake” we kept talking about (for a couple months now) so this was a perfect opportunity. All together, I believe we spent about 12 hours on it but we definitely had blast doing it!
The pictures sum up most of what happened so I’m going to really let them do the talking (lots of pics up ahead!):
(above) Black licorice for the treads
(above) Frosted using Betty Crocker lemon frosting and orange icing color.
(above) Ta-da! Treads!
(above) Piping the front panel
(above) Piping "WALL-E" (below) The finished product.
(above) Inserting the head
(above) Insert the arms and... DONE! (below) Add an EVE made from an egg and voila!
(above) The Directive. Made from leftover brownie scraps.
(above) Chocolate cockroach! Fused together with a blowtorch, and compressed air.
Thanks for checking out my weekend adventure. Here are some fun facts about the project:
- The gears for his treads are Oreo cookies.
- We used Scharffen Berger cocoa powder for the “dirt”.
- In order to get dirt on the sides of Wall-E, I sprinkled cocoa powder in my hand and blew it on. There was probably more cocoa on my face than on Wall-E.
- Various vegan truffles leftover from LeOnion were used as scenery for rocks.
- The plant in the boot is basil.
- A total of 6 skewers were used to hold Wall-E together.
- Eight canisters of frosting were sacrificed to make this project (we used lemon, vanilla, chocolate, and dark chocolate).
- EVE was NOT hard boiled.
- No one even attempted to eat Wall-E that night. He looked that good.
- I’ve seen Wall-E 7.5 times.
1. Weirdest thing you have had for breakfast?
* Peanut butter, fried egg, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. Surprisingly tasty.
2. Most desperate meal you've ever had?
* "Office pantry peanut sauce with tortilla chips" - I threw everything I could find in the cupboards together with some Skippy (Italian seasoning grinder, salt, honey, chili flakes, sugar packets, hot sauce, etc.) and ate leftover chips with it. Wow, that's two things with peanut butter.
3. When you eat too much, you...
* Bounce up and down to compact the things in my stomach in hope that I can create enough room for dessert. Then enter that classic comatose state of satisfaction mixed with regret. 
Awesome job Lychee! He looks terrific!
This looks delightful — and puts a new meaning on “sinfully delicious” since one would approach actually eating the cake with some feeling of sacrilege. ];-)
A bunch of “huge fans of WALL•E” are eyeballing your cake pictures right now, and I think all will be as pleased as I was. The timing is good; someone had recently done a WALL•E cake that looked not just terrible, but “horror-movie” disturbing. What a pleasure to get past that and see the little guy nicely done!
Best wishes — and check out the forum to find other very serious enthusiasts of the film, from directing to awards to the hard-core science behind the movie.
http://walleforum.com/index.php
It’s a friendly place, much like your own kitchen — except that no one gets frosted. ];-)
Best wishes, and happy eating!
===|==============/ Level Head
Yummy Robot! Very creative!
Love the black Licorice! Looks like screws!
This is probably the funnest dessert I’ve seen! NICE!
Wait until you see what we did to him after… I’m going to save that for another post.
Poor Wall-e…no wonder he looks so depressed. He knows whats coming. LOL.
Love the Wall-E cake! It is the best I have seen. We are big Wall-E fans. I want to make one for my son’s 3rd birthday party in March. But, I am not very crafty. I think I can do the cake part, but do you mind revealing how specifically you made the arms and eyes for Wall-E. That would be very helpful. Thanks!
I think lychee used cardboard to put it together, but not too sure.
Cardboard was used for the eyes and hands. I didn’t personally construct it but the eyes are just a teardrop shaped cutouts, wrapped in cardboard, and then taped. Then it was painted with acrylics. I would try a few prototypes out with some cereal boxes, those are cheap and readily available. Then if you want it to be sturdy, construct it out of corrugated cardboard but it would be obviously harder to bend.
For the arms, just try to construct a cardboard rectangle and score the cardboard using razor blades. As with the eyes, finish with tape
That looks like fun!