A California bakery created ‘Pan Solo’—a 6ft replica of the Star Wars hero frozen in carbonite out of bread.
Sci-fi fanatic and expert baker Hannalee Pervan spent 100 hours on the life size sculpture.
The head chef and co-owner of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, grew up watching Star Wars with her mom Catherine, who also worked on the sculpture.
Hannalee’s father Peter helped make what doubled as a tasty homage to the famous spaceborne rogue, and a Halloween project, by going out to get the supplies the two ladies needed.
They spent a month making the model from flour, water, and sugar, creating each feature and then baking them one by one.
“We start with a rough idea and then me and my mom just jump in and start making and baking things and seeing if they work,” said Hannalee. “Sometimes we get it in the first try and others we have to bake multiple times. We had many reference photos and we obsessed over the smallest details in them.”
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First they made his basic body shape before they moved onto his face and hands.
The sculpture went on display outside the shop on the 9th of October after nearly three months of planning and 12-14 hour shifts
“My mom and I had been brain storming iconic images in the sci-fi universe,” said the 37-year-old. “We settled on Han Solo stuck in carbonite because it was one of our favorite moments in Star Wars. It was also a little scary for Halloween and we thought we could really make it look cool using the properties of the dead dough.”
“My mom instilled are true love of Sci-fi in me,” she added. “It’s kind of our thing we share together.”
The shop also currently features the “Pain-dough-lorian” a scale model of the Boba Fett-inspired bounty hunter protagonist of The Mandalorian on Disney+. The fierce and tasty space fighter is dressed in bread armor, sculpted according to Hannalee’s exceptional attention to cannon.
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