Blender

As a Futurama fan, you gotta love Bender - in any form: werecar, human, wooden robot, blender!

The cake is a yellow cake. I made 3 4" cakes and one 6" cake (that I cut down to 5" and used the leftover bits to form the base). The cake stacked up pretty well with butter cream, it was leaning a bit but I carved it to look like it was upright. I covered the cake in blue-grey fondant (leftover from my dream catcher entry).

His face is painted fondant. I added more blue-grey in the shape of his eye thingy, then painted the inside black with food coloring and added white fondant circles for eyes. His mouth thingy was a white fondant cut out with the "teeth" painted on, tried to make it a little upturned so he would look happy.

To make his antenna I did put a skewer all the way through the cake and then wrap fondant around it.

I tried 4 times to make the blender jar edible: 3 times with sugar & once with gelatin. The plan was to pour melted sugar on a parchment cutout and, when it had cooled enough, wrap it around a yogurt container until it set. The first and third attempt ended up being too crystally so it just fell apart, the second attempt I added corn syrup so it was just goopy. There was an internet tip that you could disolve gelatin in just enough water and then let it set and you could have a fruit-roll-up-type transparent piece to work with - too sticky and floppy to hold its shape.

So, in the end, the glass jar was literally a glass blender jar. It was so heavy I didn't think the cake would last, but it was totally fine - butter is strong!

So I ate a bit of Bender's face for breakfast and now I feel gross ... off to eat some veggies!