I did this Guitar Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 10th birthday. I looked around for templates and found one on the internet which I enlarged and cut out. Then I carved the cake and assembled it. (I started with a 1/2 sheet cake made with two store-bought cake mixes and iced with buttercream icing.)
I iced the guitar body in white and freehanded the inside border, also in white. Then I used the spray food coloring in blue and sprayed the outer part of the cake, giving an airbrushed look. Then I used a gum drop which I had sliced thinly as the buttons.
The tuning buttons on the top of the guitar are marshmallows and the strings are licorice. If I ever do another guitar cake, I am going to look around ahead of time for the pull-apart licorice that comes in black.
Since it was Easter time, I could find the multi-colored licorice but only in the little snack size. So I rolled several out to be thinner snakes and pressed them together to form one long string. However, if you do this, they will eventually shrink and break apart. I do not recommend this. Instead, it would be better to use the larger licorice, even if you can only find it in red. That was the case with me and I didn’t want red because it wouldn’t match the cake, but in hindsight, it would have been better to have red in one piece than the color I wanted in several pieces.
Good luck!
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