Electric Guitar Cake

So it was my friends birthday and she likes guitars, so the guitar cake was created. 

It was basically a chocolate cake.

Recipe

175g butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 3/4 cup sugar

3 eggs 

1/2 cup cocoa

2 cup plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 cup milk

Cream butter, vanilla essence and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift cocoa, flour and baking powder together. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Pour mixture into a greased and lined cake tin. Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 30 minutes.

To decorate

I used fondant and a red ribbon to tie around the bottom of the cake.

I rolled out the white icing to cover the cake then used the excess to make the blue circle under the guitar and little red and blue picks that I used a pick to template. I used a paint brush and some food coloring to color the parts of the cake. To create the guitar, I drew a template from a guitar picture and then cut out the fondant. I then painted the guitar so it could look like one. To stand it on the cake I put the fondant on the semi cardboard template and held it up with skewers and stuck a skewer to the back of the template so it wouldn't flop.