I need some help! I am making a grand piano cake for my students' piano recital. How do I make the keys and the top lid of the piano. I guess I could use a dowel to prop up the lid, but what do I make the lid out of?
Thanks. I'm new and loving all the help I get from this forum.
Ruth
I made them both out of gum paste. I even made the "stick" to hold the top open out of gum paste. The keyboard, I just rolled gum paste the size I needed "scored" lines to make keys and "painted" in the black keys with edible markers.
Push the stick into the cake (so you have to make it a little longer).
I made this lid (and the music stand) out of cookies five years ago. If I were to do this cake today, I'd make the lid out of gumpaste.
I did the exact same thing for the keys as kakedecorator, except I used fondant rather than gumpaste.
My extremely heavy cookie lid is 'glued' to the piano with buttercream icing. I'd use royal icing for a gumpaste lid.
I too, am going to try my hand at one of these(i think)!!
What a great idea!
I made a grand piano for my Dad's 70th birthday 2 years ago. (It's obviously not in the caliber of anyone here lol, but the idea is what matters, lol, anyway, I have lots more practicing to do with fondant and RBC (that was my first RBC that I had ever played with). ANyway it was not within my capabilities to prop up the lid, (or maybe attempting the inside of the piano scared me lol) so I left that, but I made the keys out of white RBC (and black for the black keys). I was of course originally going to make the traditional 88 keys but then my niece - 7 at the time - suggested 70 keys in keeping with his age lol, which ended up being a grand idea (no pun intended, I swear) because 88 would have been a real B**** to squish into that space lol.
Gee now I want to go make another one just for the hell of it!
Good luck!
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