A referral customer emailed this photo to me today. I have made sculpted cakes, but never anything like this. Where in the world do I begin? I really need help with this one ya'll...

Amy

thumb in...not up like I'd described previously...

i have never done anything like this but maybe you can make the hand out of rice krispies. good luck!!!

Sorry can't help you with how to make the cake, but have you checked in the gallery I know I have seen this cake, but can't remember who made it. Also Duff made one on Ace of Cakes maybe you can check the food network site. I think he used modeling chocolate for the hand.

Yes, neni is right. Duff made a cake like this but the fist is made of modeling chocolate. I can't see how you could do this easily with cake. I would do candy clay or fondant or something along those lines. The cake is really cute though!

actually that photo she sent IS Duff's cake
(#34 in the Fun Stuff gallery)

so, you might try an email to them.

big trick here is the internal support the holds up then hand and guitar --- which those who watch Ace of Cakes know Duff loves to build out of welded copper tubing.

OMG and don't forget the photo. And tutorial and and and

I appreciate all of your help everyone. I haven't responded to her email yet. I may end up turning this one down. I don't know that I could do it, and I would rather be honest with her in that fact, than to have a disappointed or angry customer. The cake isn't needed until 12/16, so I may try to make one this weekend. We'll see...in the meantime, I'm going to do a search...

Amy

the one that was posted here recently was done with Duff's blessing..the cc'er e-mailed him and asked if it would be ok and he obliged..On hers she had said she found a fake hand at a party store to use on the fist of rock cake
If you did that then you could probably get a chocolate mold of a guitar to add to the top of the fist

I was researching guitars online this past week because I have an acoustic guitar cake to do and found an image from a site that sells the guitar cutter...That one I think they cut then hand painted to add detail to the chocolate guitar

Amy I am laughing like crazy because I just made that cake for my sons birthday last month. He is in a heavy metal band called "Lowki" I emailed Duff and asked him to walk me through that cake, his assistant Sherry molded the fist of white chocolate clay and then airbrushed it. I didn't have the confidence in my ability to model it but I found a rubber hand at Halloween and glued the fingers down. The flames are fondant just colored yellow and painted with orange and red color. I molded the guitar of chocolate fondant although it doesn't show well in the photo. I covered the cake in Pettinice chocolate fondant. Printed out the heavy metal band logos on my printer, cut them to size and made gumpaste sections to put them on. I dried the gumpaste on the side of a 10" styrofoam dummy so they would dry to the curve of the actual 10" cake. I glued the paper logos on to the gumpaste with clear corn syrup thinned a bit with water, just paint it on thinly to the dried gumpaste, attach the logo and smooth. I attached them to the cake with full strength corn syrup just dabbed here and there on the fondant. I have a wedding cake separator set with lucite center poles, I used one of those to hold up the hand. Threatened my son if he didn't return it too. I used a round cookie cutter the same dimension as the lucite rod, cut a hole in the center of the cake, inserted the pole and slid the hand over the pole. Oh, and I found a leather wrist strap with metal studs at the party shop too, it just fit perfectly around the hand. Click on the photo to enlarge so you can see the details close up.
Amy DON'T turn this order down, this is the most fun I have had making a cake in a long time. You can probably still find a hand at a costume shop what with New Years coming up. Son Josh's response when he saw this cake "NO WAY Mom, that is the coolest cake you have ever made!"

I don't know if it would work but what about using a rubber glove as a mould? Position the fingers how you want and pour in chocolate? When hard peel off the glove?

I don't know, just an idea.

Shirley, if you don't mind, I will be emailing you for help...and probably mental help...LOL...if I give this a shot. I about had a cow when I went to Charm City Cakes to find the cake that Duff did LIKE this one, and it WAS this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy Cow!!! LOL. I LOVE the cake that you did for your son! Awesome job!!! The hand was really all that I was worried about, since she decided to opt out the guitar, and added in the spike wrist band. Do you really think that I can do this? God help, I'm freaking knowing that this is DUFF's cake!!! Yowza!!! LOL.

THANKS!!!
Amy

For the hand you can just get a flange and pipe. Screw the flange to the board and screw the pipe into it and you have internal structure.

Actually, this would be similar to making a lot of "anatomy" cakes. If you look there you can find a LOT of ways to get it rolling.

Just an idea.