Dorinda's Cake Design: Guitar and Drum cakes

I've decided to blog these two cakes together since they are so similar in theme. (We have a very musical household so often our family cakes reflect that interest) I suppose a 'sports mom' would have a lot of sport cakes and and a dance mom would have cakes of ballet shoes and etc (oooohh - a ballet shoes cake - now that would be FUN to try!! :)

The first cake I'm including here is a guitar cake I made for my husband's 39th birthday. He is a guitarist so there you go! This was my first foray into making my OWN fondant and with trying a marbling technique. I was pretty happy with the results. I also combined some good old fashioned butter-cream piping too.

The other cake I want to include in this post is one I did pretty recently for my son's 13th. He is a drummer so I bet you can guess what his cake was! :)

For this one I again made my own fondant but this time I was much more successful with the marbling technique. Check out those drum sticks made out of fondant!! Very cool! I also tried an edible spray paint technique to get the silver finishings. Sadly - the paint cracked as it dried - it wasn't tragic but I have changed my approach to 'metal' looking fondant now :)

The cake itself was a a chocolate and vanilla layer with Marshmallow Fluff and buttercream filling. Yum!