MY SON WIL TURN 22 IN APRIL. HE WANTS ME TO MAKE HIM A CAKE IN THE FORM OF A HAND WEIGHT OR A BARBELL CAKE. ANYONE HAS ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO DO IT?

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id say do some kind of base cake, square, round, whatever, in a colour he likes, and do rice krispie treat weights, with some skewer or something to act as the bar.
if you do the weights as cake, then it means a lot of carving. id make a square or rectanlge, and cut that into strips. then stack and support.
seems easier, and like youd get more cake/ value for money doing the first way... depends what you feel up to doing.
xx

I would say use your 8 6 & 4" round pans for diffrent size weights cut a hole in the center of them put diffrent weight sizes laying off to the side on the cake board, with the larger cakes 8" place a Wilton white dowel in between covered in fondant. Use a weight from his collection to do the details. Hope this helps...

Thank you for all your great ideas! will be trying it soon

Here's a couple of pics that have some instructions:

http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/coolest-barbell-cake-2.html

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://family.go.com/images/upload/contest/cake/meryl11046234890621.jpg&imgrefurl=http://family.go.com/contests/cake-recipes/cakes/pound-cake-10320/&usg=__Ppcix_Bzy6DfAWq0XvHN-PoP62s=&h=197&w=284&sz=11&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=PMqMrxWEpk8CrM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=114&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbarbell%2Bcake%2Bpic%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26hs%3DfbS%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1

Here's some more pics:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2023/2091351033_1687046501.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/dmariev97/2091351033/&usg=__B-YNC14C7uK87Z-FvG1idQluSDQ=&h=479&w=500&sz=161&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=P40QEKKXOUe1XM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dweight%2Blifting%2Bcake%2Bpic%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1

http://annieoscustomcreations.com/images/barbell_cake.jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pinkcakebox.com/images/cake85.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/2006/05&usg=__3OSvrRStFkm1zJP-ACsf0y8CIJk=&h=132&w=250&sz=17&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=qecyxL46W_F_6M:&tbnh=59&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbarbell%2Bcake%2Bpic%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26hs%3DfbS%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1

THANKS, xstitcher for all the great pics --they are great!

Your welcome glory98 and good luck with your son's cake. I'd love to see it when your finished!