Guitar Cake

 

For this lab, our unit decided to bake a guitar shaped cake! We used a chocolate cake mix then filled up the guitar shaped cake pan by Wilton. The cake looked really puffy and not that promising when it was first taken out of the oven. However, as it started to set, the cake started to draw from the edges and removing it from the pan was a really easy process. We then put it into the freezer so that we could ice it next class.

 

  We used the same type of icing for the entire cake. To make the dark brown, I had to use A LOT of the brown gel food colouring which was almost half of the container. I thought that the food colouring was going to throw off the taste of the icing but it actually had no effect on the taste. For the body of the guitar, we used the #27 star tip which created a kind of fluffy texture. I thought that it looked cool but wasn't fitting for a guitar. The scalloping on the sides of the cake took a little bit of time to get the hang of, but after a while, it was really easy. We used black icing for the tuning board, the sound hole and the saddle. The black colour was so much easier to achieve than the brown colour surprisingly.

Overall, I think that shaped cake pans are really fun and quite simple to work with. The cake itself was quite fluffy and the icing was delicious! I would definitely like to try working with other character pans in the future.