Over a year ago, I took the Wilton Decorating Basics course. As part of the course, we had to make and decorate a “character cake”, i.e. those shaped pans that are all the rage these days.
My husband is a musician, so what better choice than the guitar cake pan
? I was feeling lazy so I used a boxed cake mix. This is what you’ll need then for the cake portion:
Follow the box directions:
See that cake release
? With that, hopefully you will get a clean result, like this:
There, wasn’t that easy? Cake release is great for these types of pans. They prevent sticking, which will make your cake look sad. Sad cakes, although yummy, are more cake wrecky. We like happy cakes here.
Now for the frosting; I made enough as described on the Wilton box instructions.
This is where I left for class and started icing there. I got a good percentage done at class, but not all of it. I brought the rest home for my husband to help me on.
Frets. Husband marked where the frets should go by putting indentations in the fret board with a straight edge, then piped in the stripe.
Lookin’ yum so far.
Next are the strings. Other than size, another difference between guitars and ukuleles are the number of strings. Ukes have four strings. Easy for us, less piping!
We piped them on and here’s our final product. It’s almost precisely to size to an ukulele. And, it was delicious.
A musical instrument you can actually eat!
