WALL-E Birthday Cake

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A trip to the movies to watch Disney’s newest movie WALL-E made my son decide he wanted a WALL-E birthday cake.  So as usual my husband and I waited till the day before his birthday to start making the cake. 

We finally went out to the barn the day before the party to see what all scrape materials we had available.  My husband made the track support out of ply-wood and a few old parts off a power wheels truck that has been waiting to go to the dump.  He supported the two track pieces with some wood that we originally thought to put the cake on. 

We started to realize that a box cake for the body would be way to much cake for the birthday party, so we looked around for the lower body part. It took a while to find the right thing, but finally we found it at a scrap yard his grandfather had with a bunch of old farm equipment in it.  It was PERFECT; a metal box that had rusted and had holes all over it.  Brad had to bring it home and do a little tweaking to it to make it work for the birthday cake I planned on making.  He cut it down some and made it a little shorter so I could make the cake and put it on top of the body that he made. 

When we finished that he made WALL-E’s arms and attached them to the metal body using bolts because they would be to heavy for the cake to hold. We also thought if someone wanted us to make them a WALL-E cake we would have the frame of him together and all we have to do is make the cake part of WALL-E.  Oh yea, and by the way, I make birthday and wedding cakes, etc. on the side.  Back to the arms; He used metal conduit and a piece of PVC conduit jammed into the threaded fitting for the arms of WALL-E. 

For the hands he took a piece of wood and cut a bevel in it with the belt sander, and then attached it with hot glue to the PVC, which seemed to work real well.  For the fingers he found some real thin metal flashing that was trimmed and folded in half.  He put to fingers on top and his thumbs on the bottom which required two pieces of metal for them.  He glued the fingers down with hot glue to the beveled board.  When he finished with the body of WALL-E he touched it up with some black spray paint.

Next came the eyes and head. We had an old pair of binoculars that worked perfect.  He made a piece of wood to put on top of the binoculars and put a metal rod through it so we could stick it through the cake.  He drilled a hole in the body base that the rod rested in.  Once we done that he got some cardboard and hot glued the cardboard around WALL-E’s eyes and finished it off with the black spray paint.  He found part off of the old power wheels that worked well for the neck.  It fit perfect. 

The last thing we had to do was cut the track out of cardboard.  I took a black permanent marker and made the track look a better by making tread marks.  We put it around the track base and stapled it tight. 

Finally we were finished.  It took a whole day to make the WALL-E birthday cake and decorate it, and judging by my son’s excitement I knew it was worth every minute.  We put clear wrap around the metal pole before we put it through the cake and cake board with parchment paper to separate WALL-E’s body from the cake hoping to make it as sterile as possible.  At the party everyone loved the cake.  I think it will be a big hit and we will probably have several orders for future WALL-E birthday cakes.