Guitar Cake Idea - Would This Work?
Decorating By DancingMoon Updated 10 Mar 2007 , 3:23pm by RisqueBusiness
Hope this is in the right place...
Okay, I'm going to bake a cake for my music association's year meeting. Since it's the five-year anniversary I want it to be an extra-spiffy cake.
Here's my plan, do you think it would work? And is it enough/too much/too little for ~30 people (mostly age 16-25, lots of girls)
Note! English is my second language, so excuse me if I misuse some special terms.
Cake bottom
2x sponge cake, to make the bottom of the guitar body.
3x "light" sponge cake, to make the upper tier of the guitar. The third batch I'll cut up and use for the neck.
I'll flavor them with a bit of vanilla and lemon peel
Filling
Ahh, I'm debating with myself here...
Some kind of jam is pretty set. I think strawberry would be too sweet, but perhaps raspberry? Or orange marmalde, it's nice and pretty solid.
Then I'm wondering if I can/should/shouldn't try to add some vanilla cream too?
Cover
The guitar cake will be modeled after the famous (and easily recognized!) yellow heart guitar that was a signature guitar of hide. Since we're a japanese music club ^_^
I've never worked with fondant before and I would like to try and avoid it at this time.
Soo, I thought I would cover the cake in yellow buttercream and make pink marzipan hearts. Pink marzipan is easy to get and I've got a small cookie shape for that.
I think I would like to flavor the buttercream with lemon, to offset the sweetness a bit?
The dark parts will simply be chocolate + cream, I've used that before. And I'm not even going to try to make the strings.
Alternatively, I could fill the cake with lemon curd and flavor the buttercream with vanilla...?
Help!
You seem to have your plan well thought out...don't seem to need any of our help. I think you just need someone to tell you that you can do it, but since you haven' t had any photos posted...I don't know your ability...but...your plan sounds do-able, if you plan well and don't stress yourself.
I went to see the guitar that you talked about, and it's an awesome picture.
you can also ice some uncooked, raw spagetti with the chocolate, or paint with some edible color to make the strings if you wanted to make some , easy ones.
Good luck on your project and post a picture when you are done.
I myself absolutely love working with Marzipan!
Thank you! I've made cakes before, but never really passed the "round cake with cream and stuff on" level
What I am most unsure of are the amounts - some part of me feels this will become a huge cake with lots of leftovers, but due to the shape of a guitar I can't really use a different pan. Unless I cut the cake to many small pieces and put together somehow and that feels so messy
Also, using this Crusting Butter Cream, about how much would I use? One, two or even three batches...?
Good luck on your project and post a picture when you are done.
Definitely will! Thank you ^_^
that I can't tell you as I don't use that recipe...what you can do with your left overs if your cake baking get's out of hand is "cake balls" there is a recipe and tutorial on the home page.
A great way of getting rid of 'cake scraps'!
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