Bay Area bakery creates 7-foot, 300-pound Labubu made out of bread

"This is something called Dead dough, and dead dough has no leavening agent. It's nothing that's going to puff it up, and it bakes really hard,"

"So we were able to sand it a bit and sculpt it and get it that actual look."

"My grandchildren up in Canada were talking about a Labubu. 'Can I get a Labubu for my birthday?' 'I'm like, what is that?' So I talked to my daughter, and we said, you know, we could probably figure that out."

"Part of the constraint is it has to be able to go in the oven. You have to be able to break it down into pieces that are bakeable,"

Le VanVan is a seven-foot Labubu sculpture displayed outside One House Bakery in Benicia as an entry in the Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest. The figure sits on a wooden frame, weighs about 300 pounds, and presents visible surfaces made entirely of bread. The face is made from dead dough without leavening so it bakes hard and can be sanded and sculpted to achieve a specific look. The name blends Labubu with levan, an ingredient used in many of the bread pieces. The sculpture was built in bakeable sections to fit ovens and was disassembled for careful transport, including removing the arms to bring it up stairs. Visitors, including families, have reacted enthusiastically to the display.

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