My new scratch-build: an edible buggy!

[XV Pilot]

Yesterday I started a build with a difference.

For my upcoming birthday get-together, I had the idea of making a buggy-shaped birthday cake. However I wasn't going to be satisfied with a 2D representation. No, this is going to be a full 3D buggy cake! And as a further challenge, every part is to be edible. No cheating with toothpicks and other such structural supports!

I started with the rear end:

Daim bars provided the wing panels, glued together with melted Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Once set, I laminated three wafers together with melted Milky Bar to form the shock tower and wing mount assembly.

The shock mounts are made from Cadbury's Fingers coated in white chocolate, the shock bodies are wafer curls and the shock shafts are chocolate coated pretzel sticks. Springs are strawberry laces.

Lower wishbones are pairs of Kinder bars bonded together with Dairy Milk. Upper wishbones are chocolate coated pretzel sticks, as are the driveshafts. Hubs are Bueno pieces.

The white chocolate components have been "anodised" with blue metallic food colouring.

[alfagta]

awesome, yummy ,tasty goodness , cant wait to see the body shell !!

[ChrisRx718]

I'm hungry.

Am I invited?!

[XV Pilot]

The front end was next:

Once again laminated wafers were used for bulkheads, and chocolate coated pretzel sticks were used for the shafts. Shocks were made along the same lines as the rear ones. Bueno pieces were used for the front diff housing and hubs.

The bodyshell will be next, made out of chocolate sponge cake, iced with butter cream icing. However that will have to wait a few days - I want it to be fresh for the day of the event.

Wheels are either going to be slices of swiss roll, or laminated Wagon Wheels. Tyres will probably either be liquorice or butter cream icing mixed with black food colouring, although I might try making them from dark chocolate.

[Grastens]

A build with a difference! Anybody describing hop-up parts as 'tasty' must be thinking of this project

Looking forward to its progress - 'feasting my eyes' on the photos, if you will!

[redzone]

Lol, what an awesome effort!

[XV Pilot]

Birthday tomorrow, so time to crack on with the build.

First, aligning the front and rear sub-assemblies on my building board:

[InsaneJim69]

Dairy Milk Bottom deck with cut outs for the cells ?

James

[XV Pilot]

Chocolate sponge cake didn't have the structural properties I needed for this build, so instead I opted for a thin biscuit bottom deck, with a madiera cake monocoque bonded to it with Nutella.

Looking a bit like a Striker at the moment:

[XV Pilot]

Bodyshell mounted and painted, still need to do the decals and mount the wheels/tyres:

With this model I decided to try something different to the usual Tamiya PS paint, instead opting for a 4-pack finish consisting of butter, icing sugar, milk and food colouring.

The masking wasn't too good, with a lot of paint bleed. I am sure the decals will hide it though!

[XV Pilot]

Decals are on, just the wheels to add now:

Will mount the wheels tomorrow once the chocolate tyre glue has had a chance to set.

[Grastens]

I showed this to my mother - she is a fan! And the number reminds me of my Astute... which is another kind of feast altogether.

I am really liking how it is all shaping up!

[XV Pilot]

And it is done!

Wheels were made from milk chocolate Wagon Wheels, shod with Cadbury's Bournville Chocolate tyres, fitted with blue anodised Milky Bar wheel nuts.

[alfagta]

XV , that is super awesome , someone is gonna love that ( god im hungry )

[Mad Ax]

Best. Build. Ever.

[speedy_w_beans]

Very creative. You should get this moved into The Builds forum for easy reference down the road. I suspect you've started a new trend here!

[XV Pilot]

Thanks!

I shall PM a Mod and see if it qualifies for the Builds section.

[vrs55]

That's looks great have you made many cakes before

[XV Pilot]

Thanks!

I have done a little bit of baking before. However this is the first time I have tried to make a cake that looks like something other than a cake.

[Flat_Out]

This is freaking awesome!

[InsaneJim69]

How about a 3 speed next time? Awesome job though, looks brilliant.

James

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[mr crispy]

I'm impressed you got so much blue bling into it XV Pilot

Don't think you can call it done until you make a controller though

[wood5tock]

That is a truly fantastic creation XV! You can't eat it though it's toooooooo good

[bjorklo]

First of all congrats on your b-day :-)

Second, that cake is so awesome, fantastic work..

[Grastens]

It kind of reminds me of a Leonis, except much better - style and substance-wise!

This build is so clearly a labour of love and very cool, which must be why I like it so much