A Sweet Ride! / Electric Car

I built this vehicle from scratch, it is all custom. It is scaled up from an actual cupcake 1:18 scale. The tin is aluminum and hand bent using a custom made brake. Four panels are pop riveted together and mount to a 36" dia. baltic birch plywood base. The top is made from aluminum sheet and pop riveted to 1/2 dia. aluminum tube hand bent. ( it looks like an air stream under all of that cake and frosting!) The cake and frosting are made form fabric and four-way stretch vinyl with lots of bating underneath for that full fluffy cupcake form. I vacuumed formed the Candy Corns and they are internally lit with LED lights. It's a vanilla cupcake with buttermilk frosting and gigantic candy corns! It's an electric powered 3 wheeled scooter with a  500W motor running off of a 36V battery. The back wheels are go-cart wet weather flat track racing tires.

The Wilks family and neighbors all worked to make this very sweet ride!

Electric Cupcake Car History:

The origin of the cupcake car dates back to Burning Man 2004 when Bay Area artist, Lisa Pongrace first introduced the idea. Since then the electric cupcake car craze has spread nationwide with an annual pilgrimage to Black Rock City/Burning Man each year.