How to make a guitar cake

My niece's daunting request to make an electric guitar cake for her birthday resulted in one of my favorite cakes yet. My first decision in making the guitar cake was to determine whether to bake it in a sheet pan or two round pans. I decided that there would be less room for error using two round pans due to the natural curve of a guitar. (Cake carving is not one of my strengths.) I baked one vanilla cake using two 8-in round pans. The next obstacle was how to design the guitar. After a bit…

Learn the process for making a guitar cake that stands. From the board to the type of cake and the strings edible vs inedible.

I have made several guitar cakes for clients and have always had a great time making them. They are relatively easy to make and don’t really require any unique tools unless you want to make the fondant butterflies, music notes, stars and flowers shown above. Whether you are planning to make …

Electric Guitar Cake: My son wanted a car for his 16th birthday. He also wanted a guitar. I was cheap so he got the guitar. He also got a matching cake to go with it. This cake is modeled after the Kona KES1 Series Double Cutaway Red Electric Guitar. Of course, you …

So here it is, the Gibson Les Paul Gold Top Guitar Cake!! I have been anticipating this cake for a number of months. I had...

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Sorry about the delay in posting. But now we’re currently buried under like a foot and half of snow and since there’s nowhere to go, might as well finally get off my lazy butt and write this up. So. Guitar cake. It’s rockin’. For real. This cake plays music. In fact, it plays “Freebird”. Check it out. I started by baking two 9×13 vanilla cakes. I found a profile of a Gibson Les Paul which I cut out to make a template for the body of the cake. Using that I traced out the right shape. I had to…

🚨👉SWIPE!👉🚨. Here’s the step by step process of creating a guitar cake! Looks pretty simple, right!? WRONG! This cake was certainly…

I made this Easy Guitar Cake for my friend's 17th birthday. He plays guitar so it was perfect for him. I wanted to make a cake without fondant, since I'm

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I’m so proud of this one! I’d been wanting to make a Fender Strat forever. Finally got the chance, for a client who had an awesome one of his own, & the budget to make it happen! This is his real one, signed by all kinds of famous guitarists. I ho

electric guitar cake template from @Betty Crocker

Guitar Cupcake I made this guitar shaped cake out of cupcakes. The cupcakes were all pushed together and then iced as a whole. This was a...

A good friend of mine is part of a dixie/country band based out of Atlanta, called the VaudeVillains. A big group of us got together a couple of weeks ago in Augusta and all went out to dinner. W…

This Acoustic Guitar Fondant Cake was my biggest novelty cake project so far. I made it for my dad’s 60th birthday party. Also watch my video tutorial.

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