I wanted to make a Guitar Birthday Cake for my friend’s birthday. I have never made a cake before. I decided to start with two large rectangular cakes. I tried to color the cake, the green came out the best. I free hand cut the shape of a guitar. Then I frosted it with sweet … Read more
I baked three separate 13X9″ cakes so I would have plenty to work with for this Electric Guitar and Flames Cake. I leveled the first cake with a wire leveler to make it flat. I cut the first cake in the shape of an electric guitar on the cake board (I drew it on paper … Read more
I made this Homemade Rock Star Guitar Birthday Cake for my neighbor girl who was celebrating her 11th Birthday with a party themed ROCK STAR! The cake was something very new to me, and making this cake was a process of a lot of trial and error. Shaping the Rock Star Guitar Birthday Cake proved … Read more
I made this Guitar Hero Cake for my nephew’s 9th birthday. He is a Guitar Hero FREAK! It is a sheet cake cut into the guitar shape with a light coating of butter cream and then covered with fondant. He loved it!
I got the idea for this guitar cake after my son asked for a cake that looked like a “real” guitar. After looking for cake pans, I decided to look “real”, I must try to sculpt the cake myself. I made 2 rectangle sheet cakes and cut the base of the guitar out of one … Read more
This is an Electric Guitar Cake make to look like a friend’s electric guitar. He plays a 24 fret (those lines on the guitar) so I wanted to make it close to actual size, it wound up being 4ft long! I had to make it in 3 pieces to fit in the fridge and then … Read more
To decorate the guitar cake, make the pickups and whammy bar and bridge. Shape the body. Make proportional to the neck. Use complementary colors to line the case.
I used a Wilton guitar pan and followed the instructions for mixing amounts of frosting, coloring and Wilton tips to use etc. Mixing all the frosting took more time than I anticipated. The strings were the most difficult. May have been easier if icing was cold (and I was not rushing to finish). The cake … Read more
I had to use four batches of frosting, coloring them with food coloring. For the shiny parts of the guitar I used foil and pressed it into the frosting. This was a big hit seeing as it was the first time for me making guitar cakes. All the guitar playing teenagers that came to my … Read more
I used a homemade strawberry cake with buttercream frosting for this guitar cake. The fretboard is caramel icing, the strings, are cut licorice whips, the tuning keys are strawberry marshmallow candies, and the Hanna Montana “picture” is an iced graham cracker. I really enjoyed making this cake for my granddaughter. The way her eyes lit … Read more
my daughter wanted a Hannah Montana guitar cake so I made it. I used graham crackers for the neck of the guitar and used Hershey kisses for the knobs that holds the strings. I used an 11x15x2 cake pan and cut a guitar shape out of it. I made purple icing and brown icing and … Read more
A friend of mine asked me to make an electric guitar birthday cake for her daughter’s 10th birthday. I found an image of a guitar on my computer and enlarged it to fit 2 A4 pages to use as a template. I baked a chocolate cake in a roasting pan to get a large enough … Read more