Who wouldn't love a 2 foot tall realistically detailed Dalek cake for their birthday?
This cake was a challenge but ended up better than we could have imagined. It stands 22" high and weighs nearly 20kg.
The following photos show some of the work that went into it's construction.
Plans were developed from published Doctor Who manuals
The use of styro in some sections reduces weight and cake wastage
28 styro balls were halved, covered in icing and painted
The two major sections of cake were carved and covered in chocolate ganache
Covered in fondant and stacked
More details added and eyeball in developement
Eye and gun "shoulders" added
Completed Dalek Cake
Close up of completed cake
Tenele and the completed Dalek cake
He was delicious!
For more photos and info please see our Novelty cake Gallery
Brilliant!
What's the point in covering the balls in icing? They're made of styrofoam... no-one's going to eat them.
Hi Holly
I guess mainly it is a aesthetic thing, to keep the entire outside of the cake made of icing. If we had wanted to use the extra icing and put up with the extra weight it would have been possible to make them out of solid fondant and they would not have looked any different.
Plus if we had simply painted the styrofoam balls you would probably still be able to see the texture of the styrofoam.
And finally this way the royal icing attaching the balls to the edible part of the cake is gluing icing to icing so there won't be any styrofoam accidentally left behind when you remove the balls.
Love your Art!!!! Great Designs!!! Regards from Venezuela!!!
That is absolutely FANTASTIC as the Ninth Doctor would say!
Or BRILLIANT as Ten would've said.
Well done!
Would it be possible to publish/send the plans for this cake, as your FAQ's suggest you don't do delivery outside Australia?
Hi Josiah
I am not sure how well R2 would have traveled on an international flight, we were happy he was being delivered just around the corner.
The templates we used are available for download at the end of this blog post. Other than that it is really just a case of printing out some photos of R2D2 and decorating him to match.
Truly fantastic - my son is a massive Dr Who fan and I'd love to make him one (can't afford the 800! ) I'm also in bungendore - do you run classes?