DONE!!!! Now, to carry it upstairs

And now for your viewing pleasure......

The One....The Only.....


GUITAR CAKE!!!

So, here's the iced cake so far. Still need to put on the fondant pieces and tweak it a little. Pretty cool. Thanks to Kim for the awesome trick to smooth the icing!

Coming Together??

Ok, I'm moving right along in the cake adventure. Two devil's food and one yellow cake placed together to cut out the guitar shape. I traced Jack's guitar on some paper and placed it over the cake...then took my trusty knife and cut around...and the results...pretty f'ing cool:)

BAKING DAY!!!

Panic mode is beginning to set in....shoulda done, coulda done hafta do...that sort of thing. I'm thinking I should have baked one cake last night, but I didn't:o( Oh well, It will get done. One's in the oven now while I'm waiting to take Jack to school.

Breathe deep, frog, breath deep...

I really need to clean the counters off so I can have room for the HUGE cake board. ALSO have to shop for last minute stuff on an extremely tight budget. Greg's foot doctor made him stay off work last week for 3 FUCKING DAYS and he has no paid sick time or vacation time available yet, so his check sucked ass this week.

Deep breaths....we can do this.....

Shapes are painted - the ones that need to be - and they look alright...no pics yet. The really thinly rolled ones got soft after the edible paint was applied, but they'll be fine. Who cares if they might break in half and look like total crap.

BREATHE!!

I'm off for my super busy, super long, stressful but <<WORTH IT!!>> day.

***froggy***

My Cake Adventure Part 2

I have just spent the last 3 hours of my life making shapes with fondant. Kinda like a clay/playdoh adventure:) Even though I'm icing my son's cake with homemade buttercream icing (have I mentioned I make a kick ass buttercream icing?) I want the guitar cake to be somewhat realistic. I took plain white pre-made fondant and shaped it into what you see above.

The things at the very top of the pic are supposed to be the 'thingies' that are vertical on the neck...frets or things between the frets - I don't play guitar.

The little round things are the inlays that are on the frets...some guitars have squares/rectangles. My son's has little bitty round things

The items that resemble nipples (I know, I know) are the little knob things on his guitar and the triangle/tooth shaped things are the things you turn to tune the guitar...I knew what they were called a minute ago, but I am 37 years old and it flew out of my head.

Everything except the knobs and inlay dots will be silver. The rest will stay white. My fingers/hands/wrists are TIRED! I can barely type correctly..lots of re-typing over my errors!!!

I'm scheduled to make the icing (my kick ass buttercream icing) tomorrow. I'll make plain white, tan, maybe some grey/black or something. My mom is making some realy cool chocolates from molds that are shaped like guitars and iPods. Pretty freaking cool!!!

***froggy***

My Cake Adventure Part 1

Let me start by saying that I have NEVER made a cake - Well, I've made basic cakes, but never a ....


pause for dramatic results...

SPECTACULAR SHAPED BIRTHDAY CAKE!

I'm attempting to make a guitar shaped cake for my son's 16th birthday. I think I can, I think I can...you know the drill.

I've purchased the mix, stuff to make the icing ( I make a damn good buttercream icing) and all the colors and stuff needed. I've traced my son's guitar (trying to make it as lifelike as possible). All I forgot was...the cake board big enough to hold it!!!

I work at a 'sheet feeder', which is a place that makes corrugated sheets - NOT CARDBOARD, there is a difference - so I asked for some scrap sheets that were heavy and thick...also known as 500 doublewall in "the biz". I cut it down to the perfect size and covered it in aluminum foil. Since foil is only so wide, I have like 6 sheets going across the board. Did some searching and found some clear cellophane on a roll from, like, 2 holidays ago. Luckily, there was just enough on the roll to cover the entire board. I taped it around the back over the top of the foil and voila!! A homemade cake board!!! That's the crazy pic you see above. It's not a professional job, but who cares?? It will do the job just fine:)

Up next, the cake making begins...

***froggy***