Take a look at these cool homemade Piano cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I cut a 9×12 cake into the shape of a grand piano. I cut pieces to put around the edge to make it look as if it had depth. I cut a piece of poster board for the top and sprayed painted it black. I used small round glass candle holders for legs and iced … Read more
This piano cake is one of the easiest cakes I have ever made. I make cakes for music recitals that my daughters attend. Nothing better than a giant keyboard! All I did was make 3 slab cakes and lay them in a row. Ice the entire thing white. Nothing better than giant Kit Kat’s for black … Read more
I made this cake for my friend’s 40th birthday! My friends grandest wish is to someday own his own grand piano, unfortunately the best I could do was make one (on a much smaller scale). This was my friends first real birthday party since he was a kid and I wanted to make it super special. … Read more
This electronic musician cake was made for my friend’s husband. He makes beats on his computer using a keyboard and this program. She was originally going to go to Publix to have the edible image placed on a sheet cake and then make a pair of head phones her self after I taught her how to do it. … Read more
A friend of mine played keyboards in a local band. When he was turning 50, I was asked to make a keyboard cake for him. I had only ever worked with fondant a few times, on a very small scale. I don’t know why I thought I could make a full size keyboard cake and cover it … Read more
All this piano cake takes to make is a double layer 8″ cake. I cut out the piano shape just by looking, then covering cake shape with thicker rolled fondant so I could shape it more if needed. The keys are made up of thinly rolled fondant then where each key looks “divided” just take … Read more
I made this music birthday cake for my cousin’s 12th birthday. He plays the piano, fiddle and guitar. This is a white cake with white buttercream icing. I used pictures of his instruments to get an idea of how to make them. I then used a toothpick to trace around them onto the iced cake. … Read more
I downloaded a picture from the internet for this Piano Birthday Cake Design, then baked 2 10 x14″ sponge cakes, used the piano picture shape to cut the piano shape, and covered it in black fondant. I traced a template from a picture of the piano keys, then cut them out in the black and … Read more
My 8 year old son came up with the idea of a Grand Piano Birthday Cake Design for his Dad’s birthday. We came to your site, but my son wanted to make a cake that was entirely edible. So I went to work to figure out how I could do it! I made 2, 8 … Read more
I made this Piano Cake for my daughters’ friends’ birthday last year. It was my second attempt at a piano cake, and was a huge improvement on the previous attempt. The cake was made with Madeira sponge, cut to shape and covered in white fondant. The lid of the piano was made from flower paste, … Read more
I then used homemade Wilton buttercream icing to create the keyboard as well as the sheet music and notes. It was an easy cake to make as I copied it from other specialty shaped cakes on this website!
The cake was done in off white icing. The keys were in white and black. Rosettes were used fro the border. I added homemade flowers from royal icing. This cake was made for my son’s piano recital.