# Wallace & Gromit’s Cake-O-Matic cooks up a storm for The Grand Appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/11/11/wallace-gromits-cake-o-matic-cooks-storm-grand-appeal/
- Published: 2016-11-11T09:30:48+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The world’s first cake-baking-cake is raising funds for [The Grand Appeal](http://www.grandappeal.org.uk)
in Bristol until Christmas.**

Cake designers [Peboryon](http://www.peboryon.com/) created the cake with The Grand
Appeal, which was unveiled at Birmingham NEC’s Cake International earlier this month.
Featuring Wallace & Gromit and designed in collaboration with Aardman, the ‘Cake-
O-Matic’ has moving parts and takes spectators on a journey from the mixing bowl
to the final baked product, once activated by a golden token.

The two-metre long cake is now on display and free to visit at the Gromit Unleashed
shop at The Mall at Bristol’s Cribbs Causeway until Christmas. Shoppers are invited
to give donation to start the cake-baking-cake and can then take home a mini-cake
produced by the Cake-O-Matic at the end.

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The Cake-O-Matic celebrates Aardman’s 40th anniversary and its 21-year partnership
with The Grand Appeal. Inspired by the contraptions created by Wallace and Gromit,
it show the characters doing their part to raise funds for charity, by baking cakes
for sick children.

 * ![The amazing Cake-o-Matic](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/10/wallace-
   cake-o-matic_4-1.webp)
 * ![Gromit checks the cake's progress](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/
   10/gromit-cake-o-matic_11.webp)
 * ![Wallace consults the recipe](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/10/wallace-
   gromit-cake-o-matic_1.webp)

The Cake-o-matic

All proceeds from the Cake-O-Matic cakes will support The Grand Appeal’s £1.5 million
[Home from Home Appeal](https://www.grandappeal.org.uk/news/our-new-home-home-appeal)
to fund new family accommodation at Bristol Children’s Hospital.

Suzanne Maverick, fundraising manager, The Grand Appeal, said:

> “The money raised by our £1.5 million Home from Home Appeal will provide new accommodation
> to give families somewhere to stay just minutes from the hospital, so that they
> can be there for their child.
> “We’re so grateful to Peboryon for creating this
> amazing masterpiece, which will raise vital funds and awareness for Bristol Children’s
> Hospital. We’re hoping this cracking contraption will inspire bakers across Bristol
> and the South West to whip up their whisks and hold their own [BIG Bakes](http://www.BIGBake.org),
> to help bake a difference.”

The Grand Appeal’s BIG Bake asks people to hold a bake sale at any time throughout
the year to raise funds for the charity.

 * **[Cracking good fundraising, Gromit](https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/10/09/cracking-good-fundraising-gromit/)(
   9 October 1997)**