I have a client who wants some of these things on top of a cake for her sons b-day, any ideas on how I can do them with or without making them with cake.

I see these on a metal looking cake...kind of a space station looking thing...maybe some blue or red buttons to push.....I can see it in my head...just not very good at explaining it to someone else...lol

Cheers,
Shirley

What about using a Nutter Butter cookie dipped in chocolate for the body. and the only thing I can come up with for the legs is chocolate dipped pretzel sticks. Wouldn't hold it up, tho.

Using cake, I would cut a tear drop shape for the body but for the legs--I got nothing! I'll have to think awhile longer.

Wow, that's a tough one!! What is that thing anyway? lol

Have you ever done colorflow or fbst? That may be the easiest way to go amd still have it look like whatever it is, LOL.

I would do the body in cake and the arms (or appendages ) from pretzel rods, using royal icing for the glue, the claws I would make ahead of time out of royal also and then glue them on with royal, like my spider see below:

Yikes, that looks scary and something that would show up at the Food Network Challenge. Hope you are charging her an arm and a leg for this!

how about forming it out of Fondant? (you just want it on top of the cake, right?)

What is that thing anyway?

thanks to everyone for your input so far, this is a tough one to come up with ideas for. I am thinking that I will have to make them from styrofoam and pipe cleaners or something and make them to sit on a cake.
I have done many fbct and icing images so if worse comes to worse I will have to do them and place them around or on a cake
They are some toy from the Bionicle series - a boy toy of course.

ohhh tough one, it is a bonicle from lego. Do you have to do that bionicle? How about making the cake a bionicle mask

http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=M002&cn=12&d=6&t=3

and on the sides you could do edible images of all the different bionicle

http://www.lego.com/eng/bionicle/building.aspx

the above site is how they are actually put together. Hope this helps

Claire

Make a really cool space station or planet looking cake and place the real toys on top?

DiscoLady- I love it!