It has been while since we've posted a cake here, but for good reason, we had a baby girl! Kathy and Megan are both doing great and it is hard to believe it has already been two months! As it goes, it is busy with a newborn, but somehow we still managed a few cakes over the last little while. The cake in this post was from April, however, well before Megan was born.
Some friends invited us over and we decided to bring a cake; we are always looking for a good excuse to make a cake. One of these friends is one of Paul's old guitar playing buddies so we made a plan to do a guitar and an amplifier cake. It looked really cool in Paul's imagination, but didn't translate to real cake very well. The structural integrity was lacking on the amp. As you will see, the guitar came out great!
It is to scale, not sure what ratio, but to scale as far as length and width to a Fender Stratocaster. The guitar is cereal treat with creamy white (and then colored) frosting. Rolo candies make the tuning knobs and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups make the volume dials. This part came out well, the amp wasn't as successful.
As you see, the amp turned into more of a rock, than a guitar amplifier. It was supposed to be several layers of chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting in between layers, then covered with fondant and decorated to look like a Marshall half-stack. Well, it was obvious after the layers were stacked that this amplifier would not be able to hold its own weight. After an attempt to reposition the cake to help it stand better, Paul got frustrated and gave up. It wouldn't be an amplifier, but it was still a mound of delicious cake, so we covered it with fondant. Upon seeing the finished product we noticed it resembled a rock. By placing the Rolo next to it, and playing on the words involved, we still got our Rock 'n Roll-o cake.You can't win them all.
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