One of this week's cakes.
I have made a few piano cakes over the last few years and really enjoy making these cakes as they look so good.
The piano body is the cake this is made by carefully cutting the shape from a square cake, filled with lovely buttercream and home made fruit jam and then covered with fondant and airbrushed with black food colour. It is supported on hollow cake dowels for the legs.
The piano lid is made from a large piece of rolled out flower paste, once the shape has been cut it needs to be left for at least one day to thoroughly dry. When the flower paste lid has dried it is then airbrushed with black food colour on one side and again left to dry before airbrushing the other side.To fix the lid to the cake first push a clear cake dowel into the cake at a slight angle and place a roll of black icing along the edge of the red and then glue it all in place with royal icing. At this atage do not touch the cake again until the royal icing has set and the lid is firmly fixed in place.
The keyboard is cut out from flower paste and the keys are printed on rice paper using edible ink, cut to size and stuck on with a little water. the music is also printed on rice paper and attached with water and the cake is alsmost finished. Just add a birthday message and a few musical notes and it is ready for collection.
Have a look in my galleries for more musical cakes, besides the pianos there are guitar cakes and drum kits.