Rock Star Guitar Cake and the Bike Cake

by Pallavi
(Bloomington, IL)

My son Arjun just turned 3.He is very fond of cars and bikes and his other passion is music...so on his 3rd birthday i tried to make these two cakes for him.

Bike cake was though difficult but for my 1st trial on this type of customized cake,it turned out well n with the excitement n smile on my son face,i must say it was worth taking pain for.


I baked a normal cake with the measurement of 1234-that's 1cup butter,2cup sugar,3cup flour n 4 eggs.(or u can also use boxed mixes for cake). I used 9*13 pan n baked it for 35 min & than took it out. Once it was cooled down I put it in the fridge for 3-4 hrs(so that its easy to cut into customized shape with less crumbs). After that i cut the cake in the shape of race bike with the biker sitting on it..I copied it on a sheet of paper from a photo gallery from clipart.com.


Once its done ,i crumb coated with the normal vanilla frosting n put it back in the fridge.after an hour took it out n did all the decoration(for various colour frosting, used food colour with vanilla frosting)...for background design, it was just chocale frosting n some coloured frosting for road, mountains and grass..Arjun really loved the cake.He cut that cake on his b'day eve.

I made the guitar cake for his birthday party(which was over the weekend).For this i used 2 boxed mix and followed all the same procedure as i did in bike cake. It sure was a hit for the party.Everybody loved it n on the whole my son was very happy. :)