Iso Guitar Cake

Decorating By Vreeke Updated 29 Jan 2006 , 10:38pm by franjmc

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Vreeke Posted 28 Jan 2006 , 12:37am
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Looking for a picture of a really awesome realistic guitar cake. Anyone seen one out there in cakeland? Thanks, Lori V.

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MrsMissey Posted 28 Jan 2006 , 12:40am
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There are some really neat ones in our gallery. I just did a search using the word "guitar":

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&meta=search&type=full&search=guitar

HTH!!

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Lia Posted 29 Jan 2006 , 10:27pm
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Don't know if you saw it, but last night on food network the Elvis Birthday Cake competition was on. There was one cake that had three guitars in it that were amazing. There might be a picture of them on foodnetwork.com

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franjmc Posted 29 Jan 2006 , 10:38pm
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Lori,

I made a replica of a Gibson Les Paul for my husband last year.

I couldn't find any patterns, or tins that looked real enough to me, so I found a picture on the web, and enlarged it with a photocopier until it was the size I wanted and used that as a template to cut the cake with.

The only real issue I had was the neck.

If you make it out of cake you can't shape it like a real guitar, for support it needs to touch the cakes board. However, I have seen someone make one where the icing they used to cover the board, white I think, was continued up the cake to sort of disguise the extra neck width, does that make sense? It was an optical illusion, but it was very effective.

Also, I've seen the neck done with carved styrofoam, covered in icing and supported at the end with a clear cake pillar, which also looked good. I guess you could make this with cake, if you were clever enough to make your own base board for the neck, instead of useing styrofoam.

I hope this helps.

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