A guitar cake for a Rockin’ Birthday

Although not related to Stampin’ Up! at all, another of my creative endeavours is birthday cakes for my boys. My mum always made us a special cake for our birthdays and my sisters and I have all carried on the tradition. A childhood birthday just isn’t a birthday without a homemade themed cake.

I am certainly not up to professional standards but I have fun with it and a birthday eve is usually a late one for me as I try to make the idea in my head out of cake and icing. Part of the joy and the frustration is that you only get one shot. There have been plenty of times where hindsight would be very useful but I’m yet to make the same style of cake twice so it’s all just wishful thinking.

For Devon’s recent birthday he wanted a Rock Star theme – due to an obsession with Reece Mastin. So what cake do you make for a Rock Star….

I found a fantastic mud cake recipe that was so easy to cut and hold its shape. The icing was a bit of a challenge – I tried marshmallow frosting for the first time and found it difficult to roll very thin and to blend the edges. Several of the design features were added at the last minute to cover ugly joins! And when it was done I had no idea where to put the candles so they ended up off the cake entirely.

Here’s the birthday boy all dressed up to match his cake!

Happy 7th Birthday Devon!

Cheers,

Genna

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