RetroBaking Vintage Wilton Character Cakes! - Iconicon 2021
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Melinda goes back to the 1980s to show you how to bake a vintage Wilton character cake. In this episode: The history of Wilton character cakes, tips for success and hands-on tutorial, with Superman, Boba Fett (as the Mandalorian), and Oscar the Grouch cakes!
80s Birthday party cake photos (aside from Melinda's) photo credit: igrewupstarwars.com/
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Wilton character pan history
1:56 - Before you start
3:21 - Frosting preparation (dyeing and putting into bags)
4:38 - Making the batter and prepping the pan
20:49 - Baking, trimming, and removing the cake from the pan
24:42 - Decorating the cake
29:24 - Superman cake decorated (fast)
35:11 - Boba Fett cake made into a Mandalorian cake (fast)
36:00 - Wrap up - ตลก
Thanks for sharing our story! Great job on the cakes!💗
After watching this video and looking at the Wilson channel I’m ready to take up some cake baking! Fingers crossed 🤞 😂
Thank you for the background information on the pans, much appreciated!
I just found a TMNT cake pan from 1989 at a yard sale. We're gonna make it for my 30th birthday.
This was so cool!
And “Strive to be delightful!” Should be put on a Retroblasting T-shirt!
Just the tips on frosting color alone was worth it for the whole video; that has always tripped me up on cakes. But the whole thing was awesome. Thanks, so much, Melinda.
You have such a sweet supportive energy! Thank you for sharing! 🩷
My mom used to decorate cakes using those pans. I remember she made a piano cake for a good friend of ours. It was a beautiful cake! I also got the Barbie Doll cake, with a real Barbie in the center. My brother had Cookie Monster, I believe! Fun times!
Great memories!
Hell I was thrilled as hell in 1980 my mom made a Star Wars sheet cake a stood the figures around the . But one Christmas dad stood the Star Wars and gi joe action figures on the limbs of the Christmas tree and I mist hammer head till I took the tree out( mostly brown action figure)
I’m looking more forward to this than any of the theatrical summer and fall blockbuster releases.
Same, as far as I can remember I received one of these Batman cakes for my birthday from 1978 to like 1994. Blue Lake #40 food coloring FTW!!!
This channel deserves +100k subs.
This was so much fun to watch. Such skills Melinda and great camera work Tim.
I think my mom still has the Vader pan. My sister was a HUGE Star Wars fan back the late 70s.
I’m baking the superman now!!!
I have a photo of my childhood birthday with that Boba Fett cake pan. Oh the nostalgia.
I have all of the Star Wars Wilton cake pans, c3po, r2d2, Vader and Boba fett and a new stormtrooper head.. great videos
Nice choice of artwork to replicate Superman’s face.
For storing the larger cakes, I went to Walmart and picked up a cheap, extra large cutting board that would fit any larger shaped cake like this, then I walked over to the home storage section and picked out a clear, under-the-bed storage box that my cutting board fit into. Ta-da, sturdy storage for your shaped cake!
If you're buying a pan secondhand, you don't need to worry about the instructions coming with it, Wilton put all the instructions online years ago.
What an incredibly fun video! Some thoughts:
1) Swish hairdo, love it!
2) Great tips and turorial during the Superman segment, and the end result is amazing.
3) The speed frosting segments are some of the most zen moments on all of youtube.
4) Just overall great cakes! It's obvious that you have a talent for it, have lots of experience, and best of all, it's clearly a thing that you enjoy doing. Personally, I could burn a salad, so gimme a heads-up when you decide to start exporting to Denmark :)
Loved the video !
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Unless that strange fellow who accused Michael of buying the sail barge himself was right and none of this is real.
You beat me to it!!! 👍 I even thought that the apex of the Retroblasting experience was Michael expanding our vocabulary in every other video with words like "nomenclature"! 😄 But now Melinda has us highly motivated to develop BAKING skills? Indeed my friend, I don't think there is anything that Retroblasting (or RetroBAKING) can't do! 🙌
Nailed it! Well done Melinda, you guys are knocking it out of the park as per usual!
I just picked up a vintage Wonder Woman Wilton cake pan... so this is perfectly timed.
Good luck and have fun!
This is awesome. Fantastic, Melinda!
Wow, very cool!!!
I love this! I hope you do more videos! 😎👍
Love your videos!
What a great idea for a video! This was fun to watch and you did an outstanding job!
Looks beautiful... the cakes too.
Absolutely delicious!!!!
Wow, this was a great idea. The cakes turned out so lovely!!
Amazing
This is so nice
My mom used superman and g.i. Joe pans to make Magneto and Wolverine.
That was awesome thank you
This whole video was relaxing and therapeutic 😌
It has been about 30 years since I have seen one of these cakes. Didn't realize I missed them until I saw the thumbnail the other day.
I had a feeling Melinda would do them right.
Thank you!
Wonderfully done! I had that Superman cake when I was a kid. I think 4th grade. Memories, Bringing them back
Melinda, my mother baked me a Darth Vader cake something like three or four birthdays in a row, using these methods. After she died in late 2015, we found the original cake pan in the basement, virtually untouched. My sister is storing it for safekeeping and future use.
Thank you for a wonderfully light-hearted baking tutorial that I feel I could emulate, as well as lighting a fire at the base of the shrine of happy memories I have of my mother. You are one in a million. Cheers.
The tips about getting a dark black for icing are blowing my mind! Love this!
Frosting skills on another level!
This is cool. I never had a cake like this baked for me before. Won't lie I miss cooking as I use to be a cook in the army. Only once ever mad a traditional Apple Pie for my home when I was like 22. Unfortunately my brothers and I had only seen the movie American Pie like a few months prior and they thought my intentions were not with the best. One had nothing to do with the other. None the less, no one tried my pie. I cant remember the last time I baked a pie since then. PS. What camera are you using. I like the quality and it looks pretty good.
Great job on all! I have been baking for a long time and I know that takes some skills.
That was AWESOME!!!!! Thanks Melinda, great memories of when my mom made cakes like that for my birthdays.
Well done!!!
Thanks for the tutorial. I always wanted one of these cakes when I was a kid. Gonna go make one now👍
Sweet secrets from Mrs.Melinda.The art of baking cakes for all occassions.
Nice job. They look great.
Love these cake pans, great memories.
Thanks so much for this. My granny used to do Wilton cakes for us grandkids every year. Seeing this brought back memories of those times with my grandparents and cousins. Great video.
For me the Superman cake is the most 80’s and 90’s cake for me both look really good !!!
Wow! You have a great deal of precision and patience! Excellent! I have such fond childhood nostalgia for these cakes. Beautiful work.
Good job
I really enjoyed this video. My mom bought this Batman/superman cake pan when I was in elementary school. I loved Batman because the Adam West show. It was really fun watching Melinda decorating the Superman version.
I used to love getting cakes as a child, using these molds. Interesting concept for a video, Melinda. Nicely done.
My mom had the superman/batman cake pans and she made this cake for me a few times for my birthdays. I love the bud pipping, I find its so much more textural than smooth fondant that I see used today.
You make it look so easy. Every time I attempt baking it results in utter disaster. 🤣
Slightly off topic but cut up cakes (where the rectangle is cut up and reassembled in your desired shape like a tangram) were the bomb in the 70s and 80s. Artoo is a great subject.
This was very different, but 90 seconds into it, once the history had been discussed, I got it and was hooked. I guess I'd never thought much about these sorts of things, they were such a perennial back then, but now I've got that nostalgia. Nice work on the cakes, they all looked great! I can still barely *write legibly* on a cake, so I've got a long way to go. :)
Delicious! I remember looking at the Wilton catalogues that I mother had. I enjoyed to see all those molds, the cakes and decorations, and how you may use a mold and give it totally different decorations (specially the more generic ones.
That cake was a work of art.
Love the Filmation logo...and the history lesson!! 😁
This is my first iconicon video! I love the fact I can watch live or later
Great video! I remember learning how to do this in Junior High. I made my own ST:TNG themed cake for my birthday.
"Too much delicious!" as an old workmate used to say.
WOW ! Great job with Super mans face . All the cakes look awesome .🇺🇸
Thanks Melinda, this is awesome, and now I'll be hunting for other cake pans to add to my childhood Vader pan, lol.......so sick of 99% retro content being limited to boring MOTU figures
What an awesome video featuring Melinda, especially considering the passing of Richard Donner.. Kudos Retro Blasting!
Always a treat when Melinda fronts a video. Last one I saw was the Pole Position one and that seems like ages ago.
Still have all my Star Wars ones. Never been used just wanted them because they were Star Wars. Nice job Melinda!!!
Fantastic job, Melinda! When I was 7 or 8 Back in the early eighties, my mom made made me an R2-D2 Wilton cake for a couple of birthdays. I always wondered what happened to that pan. We also has a big lobster shaped pan I use for a mold to make strawberry Jell-O in. Brings back memories : )
When I got married in 2011 my wife made my groom's cake. She made a classic Wilton R2D2 cake with the hand-piped buttercream.. just the way it was done in the '80's!
you did an awesome job on all the cakes if I made those cake it'd be lopsided but if you still probably be good to me
As a keen baker at home, I now want a Wilton baking tin! This looks so cool!
The cheapest place to get Wilton character pans is at garage sales, thrift stores and FB marketplace.
@@kaybonette since moving to the US I have been feverishly searching everywhere I get an opportunity to look i! I'm always on the look out :) thanks for the tips
I just picked up like 30 of these
It's now the future, and you're here for 37:00.
yeah a tutorial on cake boards would be cool
Love the looks of these cakes! The food coloring I used as a kid made my frosting bitter, but I still loved them. I am just remembering the taste now - kind of metallic and unappealing. We had an R2-D2 and a rocket ship I think. I also made one with two NFL helmets facing off for a Super Bowl. I remember the Broncos helmet was almost the same color blue as your Superman blue.
Wilton’s red icing used to taste awful. I have a little jar that now says no taste. Guess they improved it.
Hi there, love it!! Sis said she talked to you the other day......can you make a Banana Laffy Taffy??? or better yet, you know what I am going to say, you can get it at the Barn in.......🐱😜
I loved the job you did on the cakes and the Wilton history. I still have the Superman Batman cake pan with the box and everything else. My mother was going to throw it all alway, so I told her l'll take it. My mother used to make the Superman one for my birthday and the Batman one for my older brother's birthday. I'm going look for the Wonder Woman one, so I can make it. I'm going to surprise my mother with a Winnie-the-Pooh one for her birthday. Are you going to make any more cake videos?
Bring on the sheet cakes!
Just don't let Broken Vader add special ingredients, Michael might not like it!
I always wanted one of these cakes, but my mom always surprised me with fantastic birthday cakes she baked.
Cake mixes used to make 6 cups of batter. Now depending on the brand you get 4 to 4 1/2 cups of batter. That’s why your 8” cakes look like pancakes. So sad so I use a cake mix stretcher recipe. 1 c flour, 1 c sugar, 1 t baking powder, (3/4 t bak soda if cake is chocolate) 1/4 c oil, 1 or 2 eggs, 1/2 t vanilla. Sift dry ingred before adding to cake mix.
I picked up a complete Batman/Superman pan a couple years.
I bought a Mickey pan for my nephews bday now I’ve been trying to figure out what else i could decorate it as 😅
Would love to see how to make the cakeboard.
What was that music used when Melinda was frosting the cake?
Could you please make a show on making cake boards?
How do you go about pricing for the vintage cake pans.. I have an order for the bunny cake pan how much would you charge... help. Lol
Wait, who got to lick the bowl?
This was really cool!
I know this video was a couple years ago… but can you tell me how you got the flesh color for Superman?
I have a Wilton’s Hollie Hobby cake mold that the instructions got lost. It was my aunt’s and she was going to donate it 😊
She bakes? cakes?????? Michael , KEEP THIS WOMAN!
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What buttercream recipe did you use?
OMG! Melinda thanks so much. When I was a kid the lady who'd become my future sister-in-law's mother actually made the same Superman Wilton cake for one of my birthdays. Still have the photo of the cake around here. I gotta share this video w/ the three of them. Is this the beginning of a Retrobaking series or a one shot?
Those chaps looked more like sailors than soldiers.
Could you make the Wonder Woman one ?
Retroblasting equivalent of Nigella.
Spin the pan around to get the batter to be even. Simple.
tfw you can't even remember the last time you had cake
Yo!