Taylor Swift Guitar Cake

Birthday's are special - which is why I work to make sure so many children have cakes for theirs.  So when my own children have their birthday it is a really big deal to me.  And when it is my youngest turning 18 - it's time to go all out!  She loves music and is planning to go into production.  She also loves country music so naturally one of her favorite artists is Taylor Swift.  Add the fact that she loves sparkles, rhinestones and all things that glitter - the combination just seemed too obvious to ignore.  Taylor Swift's silver rhinestoned guitar made into a cake!  I got my dad to make a stand to make sure that the cake would be in an upright position as if it were a real guitar.  Since I wanted to make sure it was fairly true to life, the size was a little more cake than we needed so I used the "rice krispy treat" trick to fill in part of it. 

I originally expected to make it sparkly by just using edible "disco" dust, but it was hinted to me that to be authentic there should be some kind of texture of rhinestones on it too.  So with that challenge in mind I embarked on my first attempted at Isomalt sugar and poured gemstones.  I am very glad that I ordered more than I thought I needed because I used it all!  I learned the value of staying away from tap water and using either bottled or distilled water.  Especially since I was making clear ones.

There were quite a few challenges with it, including the fact that it was so hot that day the fondant wanted to start slipping off and the handle had a phyics issue with staying in place - but I think it turned out pretty well!  It was sooo sparkly too with the holographic dust that I used but the lighting outside made it hard to capture in a picture.  It really did though!