Cake with a musical theme?

NickiM

Hi,
I need to make a cake with a musical theme!

Originally I thought of making a cake in the shape of a quaver/semiquaver by using a circular cake tin and a rectangular one. But how would I cement the two bits together? And also, the only tins I have would make a huge cake!

Or, I thought of doing a plain rectangular cake, but with musical notes on it. I'd rather not use icing, so can only think of chocolate.

Sorry - bit clueless, any ideas?

wogglemaker

When my children were small I used to make all their birthday cakes from rains to racing tracks to ghosts. It's such a shame, I only recently got rid of the books at a car boot sale.

I do remember a guitar being one of them. my best purchase ever is a 12" cake tin that can be turned into different sizing. such as a square and an oblong.

butter icing is a favourite coating / stick togeather icing annd thing like bootlaces buttons etc of the sweet variety for decoration.

I'm sure there must be some such books on the web somewhere

whatatwit

There are some guitar ones here

I googled music theme cake and also saw a round cake with cut out notes round the sides.

Badger_Lady

How about a normal -shaped cake, but using two different colours of chocolate in the shape of a treble clef? I'm thinking dark/milk chocolate topping with the design picked out in white chocolate, nice and swirly:


Or go a step further and cut round it:

Pink.

Or one of these? musical notes

Pink

NickiM

Oh thanks for all of those

I have to do it in the next few days, so would rather not buy anything.

But those are some fantastic ideas. I keep thinking of things I could do with cakes, cookies and muffins/fairy cakes. I might have to do some experimenting tomorrow!

NickiM

Any ideas how I would make a treble clef chocolate decoration like the one in the picture?

Sorry by the way

floyd

I would think the easiest way would be some good quality chocolate melted and put into a piping bag or sandwich bag with the corner cut off if you don't have one. Make sure the hole in the bag is small to give you plenty of control rather than it running out in a stream.
Draw the treble clef back to front onto baking parchment in pencil then flip the paper over so it appears the right way round (this step means you won't get pencil in your choccy). Place this stencil on a baking sheet, use the piping bag to trace over the chocolate shape and leave to cool but don't put in the fridge as it will go 'cloudy'
If its not thick enough you can always do a few layers letting each set individually before adding the next but make sure the chocolate isn't too warm.

NickiM

Thanks very much! I've just thought that as it is for the masses, I probably shouldn't try anything which means there is not actually that much cake to eat. But you've all given me some very good ideas, so thank you.

shegha

Tesco have been selling their supercook cake decorating items cheap.
They do a ready to use icinging a tube with nozzles. These would be good for piping notes.
You could use lines of boot lace sweets, for music line and pipe the notes on.
On a white cake this would be effective.
If not a piano key board is easy. Ice a slab of cake white/cream icing and add chocolate flakes to make the black keys.

NickiM

Thanks, although I am not that near a Tesco. I do have a piping bag at home, but I've never used it.