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Optimus Prime Cake: 2007
In: Transformers
25 Jun 2007
Last week I sent a link to Jessica about a Transformers cake that was coming to Wal-Mart. It was your standard grocery store sheet cake with a toy topper that was a real transforming Optimus Prime from the upcoming movie.
That link set the gears spinning to do our own Transformers cake. But instead we were going to not just do the topper. Oh no, instead the entire cake was going to be Optimus Prime. And he was going to be big.
So after baking 12 8x8 white cakes (9 of which were used), using 5lbs of white fondant, 6 cans of Color Spray, 3 batches of buttercream, 2 vials of silver dust mixed with vodka, and 2 very long days crafting this piece of edible art: we had ourselves our own Optimus Prime cake.
More details about the process are available in the Flickr set about the project, as well on my wife Jessica’s blog.
In the end, it looks like we completed our goal and also made the 1984 cartoon variant of Optimus Prime quite happy.
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17 Responses to Optimus Prime Cake: 2007
big J
June 26th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Cool cake! But if you want to impress me…I want to see it transform….hence (Transformers…) But I’m sure it took a lot of work, and good job on what you got. =)
bonnie
June 26th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
yum! More than meets the stomach!
Varkyle
June 26th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
“More than meets the eye!” It’s definitely more than meets the eye… you’ve truly done the Autobots justice of the cake… now there has to be one of Megatron from the Decepticons!!
fake
June 27th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Wow…..
Mara
July 1st, 2007 at 5:47 am
SO COOL! I love that last pic with the toy in the foreground! Man, I wish I could make a decent cake much less create a masterpiece like that!
Porsche
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:49 am
Tjek out this funny teaser for Transformers the movie!!!!!!
audrey
July 8th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
My dad made a transformers cake for my brother’s 7th birthday bak in the 80s. It DID transform.
Karla
July 12th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
This is the best thing I’ve seen in a long time!!
BTW, you have Flickr mail!
AlfaTrion
July 17th, 2007 at 11:57 am
omg! Opticake Prime!
edrperez
July 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
And now… an Energon cake! Look out!, Megatron it’s heading this way, he must not have the Energon cake.
Christine
July 26th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Oh my god its awsome… My son would love it for his bday. If you are in IL let me know, maybe we can work soemthing out
Estela
September 4th, 2007 at 11:33 am
That is such an awesome cake. I’m throwing my husband a Transformers b-day party in Nov. I would love to make a cake like that. Can you send me directions and the ingredients you used. I love to bake all of my cakes. Your cake is the best one I’ve seen
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Eriel Smyth
September 17th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
My birthday is on Saturday and I am going to have a Transformers birthday party on that day. But I am just going to have a Angel food cake with white sugar frosting with cream of tar tar in it (which makes it taste like marshmallows ^-^) I’m a big fan of Optimus Prime so i wish I could have a birthday cake like that for my own. Go Optimus Prime!!!!! And I love you ^-^! WHEW! That was a lot to say!
Adam Neuman
November 20th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Can you use Entenmann’s Cake?
Make a miniture?
Did you ever eat the cake?
Did you make many of the cakes and sell them?
Make a video of making the cake.
If you make a video can you put it in pieces?
Explain how to cut the cakes please.
Can you make a cake that transforms?
Baker Girl 101
January 8th, 2009 at 10:02 am
OMG! THAT is probably the best cake I have ever seen! Is it purely cake or does it have some plastic and all?! but still that is an awesome cake! I love to bake but u have surpassed me in every way I can think of! You are definantly a baking god lol! Good luck with all the rest of your cakes!
freckleface
January 19th, 2009 at 11:53 am
I am attempting this very cake for my son this year! Thank you so much for your blog (i dug it) and it will be a GREAT help to me!
I made a Thomas the train cake last year, and it was pretty neat, but not quite to scale so he looked weird, but…. A “pool” cake for my daughter and that was “ok”….
I had an idea for Prime’s wheels/tires: Hostess Ding Dongs or those chocolate moon pies???
http://www.myspace.com/dynamt
Sam
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I want to make this Transformer cake, please help me on how to or where I can purchase what I need to create this, I live in Maryland and I need to create this by August 15 for my son and Grandson’s birthday, they are both Tranformer fans!
sdiaz-delga@nea.org