This is the notorious Fruit Fucker (or ‘Friend’ to be polite in an under-estimating way) from of Penny Arcade repute, made for an epic birthday party. It caused us much grief, as such machines are likely to, and we had to toss about 10 or so pounds of fondant away. Note to self and others: if the cake is 2 feet tall, don’t bother with fondant. Try something else!
In this case, I just went with gray frosting and used fondant for the black band, eyes, mouth, and antenna. Had to do the band very thinly so that it wouldn’t weigh too much as start sliding down. The antenna is a fondant-covered stick with a ball of red fondant on top covered in red sugar sand. The shoulder balls, arms and hands are painted foam, floral wire and tubing, the engineering of which was the work of my husband 
The spout thing in the front is just cardboard dusted with silver luster and edged with fondant. The orange sitting there is plastic.
This cake was 12″ wide and about 2′ tall. There are 6 two-layer cakes plus a single layer dome for the top.
I used 5 flavors:
- Vanilla with white chocolate-almond
- Chocolate
- Orange (of course)
- Lemon
- Cherry
The dismantling of this alone drew a crowd. The cakes were separated by a cardboard circle, though something more should have been done to prevent the icing from the cake below sticking to the cardboard. Oh well, it still worked. And yes, that is a photo of me, proving once and for all that cake-making is not a glamorous business. I know, you’re surprised.
To keep a cake like this steady enough, I had 3 short hollow plastic tubes in each cake to support the cake above, and then a 1″ wooden dowel going straight down the center of the whole thing. Since we had to drive with this 30-50 minutes up to Seattle, we had two people in the back of our car helping to watch it and keep it steady while the driver stressed over taking everything REALLY slowly. We stuck a couple signs on the back of our car saying ‘Please be Patient’ and ‘Fragile Cargo’.
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