I've been asked to do a 40th birthday cake to look like a concert t-shirt. She wants a 1/2 sheet, all buttercream, no fondant. Black shirt, white lettering. She wants the Cheap Trick lettering, but would like it to say "Happy Birthday" instead.

I'm thinking the easiest way would be to do a FBCT, but since I've never done one of those before, can anyone tell me if it seems doable? My concern is there are so many spaces and voids in there. It seems to me that sort of compromises the integrity . Are they generally sturdy enough to hold up for transfer? If not, can anyone think of another option?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

This is what she wants it to look like:

Do you have an airbrush? This would be so easy to do by cutting the letters out, "gluing" them down with a bit of crisco on white fondant and hitting it with your airbrush. Bing bang done.

Oh nevermind...I see buttercream. On a crusting BC maybe.

FBCT will work. Do the lettering first then fill in the rest so it is one solid sheet and cover the top of the cake with it.

you could do it as a fbct........what I would do is do the fbct of the whole top of the cake.......only issue here is that the whole thing is gonna be black. I would try and talk your friend into fondant or if you have an airbrush go that route, otherwise everyone's mouth will turn funky colors!

LOL a black mouth and grey teeth- that is a cheep trick.

sadsmile...........you're too much!!