Matthew's guitar cake

by Cori
(Florida)

Matthew's Guitar Cake 08

Our son Matthew is a guitar fan and we thought it would be fun to make a full-scale electric guitar cake for him. I took one of his guitars and traced around it on freezer paper. I then modified it to resemble a "Les Paul" model electric guitar which he loves.
I started with twelve box cake mixes. Half in butter recipe yellow and the other half in devils food chocolate. I purchased five pounds of wilton ready made white fondant, two large containers of chocolate fudge icing, three containers of butter cream icing, gold metallic edible "paint", black food coloring paste, & red, black and brown aerosol cake-spray coloring. Three 18" X 18" cake boards.

I cooked four 12" X 18" rectangular cakes. (I had approximately 3/4 of the chocolate and the yellow cakes left over that was unused. Due to the fact I was doing two flavors I over estimated how many cakes it was going to take in the end.) If cooking in 13" X 9" you'll probably need about 3 of each.

I cooked, cooled and crumb coated the bottom layer (devils food). Then applied generous layer of store bought chocolate fudge icing. I then placed yellow cake on top...crumb coated with store bought butter cream icing.

I layed the freezer paper template (I find it sturdier to write on than parchment). I carved the cakes to match the template. I used some of the cut-aways to form "neck" of the guitar.

I applied butter cream icing to entire cake. I rolled out the fondant (white) and layed over the entire cake. After trimming, my husband air brushed the guitar to match our sons guitar. I painted all the knobs, pick-ups, tuning knobs, etc. with edible metallic gold paints & black paste mixed with some clear vanilla extract. After the cake and the accessories dried I placed on the cake. The frets of the guitar were made of white fondant and were free-handed just like the rest of the accessories. I finished with applying a butter cream border around the bottom of the cake.

The cake was a hit! Turned out to be over 40 inches long and fed over 40 people.

I've only done a few cakes and so far this is probably my favorite. Looking forward to the next challenge!

Thanks for looking.