3D Acoustic Guitar Cake

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3D Acoustic Guitar Cake

By Yeners Way - November 21, 2014

Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Number of Servings

20 - 25

RRP

$350 - $400

Learn how to make a 3D acoustic guitar cake!

In this tutorial, Serdar will teach you how you can make this realistic acoustic guitar cake yourself. Everything from the staining the woodgrain, modelling the neck and head, attaching the strings and making sure everything is secure. The biggest challenge with this guitar tutorial is to make the neck and the head align with the top surface of the guitar (just like a real one) so that the strings are all perfectly straight and stretched while the head is not touching the board. Chef Yener will show you how to achieve this and much more!

Downloads
Lessons
Preparations

Downloadable Course Material

If you would like to approximately match the size of the artwork in the tutorial, print the downloadable files at 100% size. If you require your artwork to be smaller or larger, just adjust the print size accordingly.

3D Acoustic Guitar Cake Course Material

This PDF contains the actual size blueprints for the guitar cake, as well as actual size templates for the cake, saddle and head of the guitar cake.

Track

Duration

Part 1

1:46:44

The Plan

2:16

The Templates

2:10

Tools & Materials

4:11

Recipes & Ingredients

2:06

Shaping the Cake

09:18

Coating the Body with Chocolate

7:18

Final Masking

5:21

Making the Neck

15:56

Making the Small Pastillage Parts

16:51

Making the Scratchplate (Pickguard)

8:47

Coating the Body with Fondant

9:31

Shaping the Body

11:42

Staining the Neck & Saddle

9:02

Part 2

1:06:24

Assembling the Head

6:56

Making the Sound Hole

4:57

Attaching the Neck

4:27

Applying the Varnish to the Body

2:07

Making the Fretboard

17:50

Making the Frets

4:03

Applying the Gold Highlights

3:34

Attaching the Strings

11:50

Attaching the Pickguard

1:24

Attaching the Strap

4:15

Final Touches

4:11

Total Duration

2:53:09

While not everything on this list is absolutely required, these are the things used in this tutorial video. Of course you are welcome to find alternative ways of doing things and we would love to hear if you’ve discovered an easier method or better tool to achieve good results.

What you will need

Tools

Set of knives
Pen knife
Plastic knife
Scissors
Set of palette knives
Set of rollers
Wet & dry towels
Airbrush
Round cutters (70mm, 85mm, 45mm)
Scrapers
Corn starch (for dusting)
Water brush
Water leveller
Pin (to remove air bubbles)
2 x Flat wooden bars (for pushing)
Small brush with edible gold powder

Materials

75cm x 35cm (9mm thickness) Rectangular cake board covered with fabric and plastic (cellophane).
Watch this tutorial on how to cover a cake board with fabric and cellophane.
30cm x 40cm Tray or board for chocolate coating
Tray or board for scratch plate
Plastic strips for chocolate sides
Decorative ribbon for strap (4cm x 90cm)
Elastic silver chord (4m)
Plastic sheets for templates
Cellophane sheets (for piping cones)
Gloves (Food safe)
Sponge cubes
Wooden skewers (4mm thick, 40mm long)
Baking or silicon paper

Recipes

50mm high, 200mm x 300mm Chocolate mud cake (2 X 750g Mud cake sponge, 400g Ganache)
1000g Ganache for masking
1300 Rolling fondant (700g used)
600g Pastillage (300g used)

Ingredients

700g Dark chocolate
100g White chocolate
200g Dark modelling chocolate (100g used)
100g White modelling chocolate (50g used)
Oil
Gold luster
Liquid colours (Brown, Red, Yellow, Orange)

Recommendations

Watch the entire tutorial completely and take notes while comparing the tools list to what tools you have available to you.
This is art, and no method or technique is set in stone. This is why we recommend you watch the entire tutorial first before you start gathering all the things in the list above. You may think of ways you might substitute tools or techniques with your own ideas.

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39 Comments

nmgirl 4 years ago

Used this tutorial to make a guitar cake for my son’s birthday. First attempt was not bad. Just wondering if there is a list of all the items used to make guitar anywhere? I’m going to be making another one for a friend and live in a small town so will need to order supplies now.

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- Serdar Yener 4 years ago
  
  Hi, please click on preparations tab under the video. List of items needed briefly written there. But best thing to do as we always recommend, print out the list and while you watching go through again. Also at the beginning of the video I am showing all the needed items together.Thanks
  
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Amaro1330 5 years ago

Thank you,this tutorial is amazing so easy to follow.I have a cake order of acoustic guitar on Feb 25.I can’t wait to make one…hopefully mine turn out as good as yours. Just a question what is the name of the string that you used?

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- Serdar Yener 5 years ago
  
  Silver Metallic Elastic Cord/String 1/16″
  
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Zoe Dan 5 years ago

Hi, I am going to be making an electric guitar version of this cake. I want to achieve a light wood (light beech wood) colour on the neck, what colours do you suggest? Do you add water to your colours in the spray bottles? I just have pots of neat food colour. Thanks

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- Serdar Yener 5 years ago
  
  Hi Zoe Achieving any colour exact is trial and error . use brown add water. and when you sponging the neck go few more times with wet sponge . You will get lighter and lighter
  
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Wanessa Alvares 5 years ago

Hi, I love your work and how you teach! What would it be the serving size for this guitar cake? Some one asked to do it but would like 40 servings.

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- Serdar Yener 5 years ago
  
  This cake comfortably served for 25 .Increasing the height for 15mm and cutting portions slightly smaller will make it 40.Thanks
  
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  - Wanessa Alvares 5 years ago
    
    Also, I’m having trouble viewing the pdf files. I paid the subscription via paypal but is not releasing the pdf
    
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DOLORES KESSLER 5 years ago

If I am going to make a standup guitar will the pas tillage not going to fall?

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- DOLORES KESSLER 5 years ago
  
  or I may say “come off”
  
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  - Serdar Yener 5 years ago
    
    Yes it is very good idea to use pastillage for the neck. make sure it is dried for a day or two before attached to cake
    
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Erick Giovanni Borra Amasifuen 5 years ago

Hello master!, thanks for yours tutorial, u’re great!.
I have a problema, i can’t seem to access the guitar tutorial, am i doing something wrong? i try logging out and logging back but the problems is here yet.

thanks for you answer! (and sorry for the bad english i speak spanish =D)

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- Serdar Yener 5 years ago
  
  Hi Erick Please send an e mail to info@yenersway.com Serkan will try to help you
  
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Shannon Smith 5 years ago

Chef Yener, I am new to your site and thrilled, yet amazed with your works of art! Thank you for offering tutorials to teach others. I am excited to get started on my first acoustical guitar cake. I printed the templates but “Side View pg 2-3” is missing. (Not sure I will need it, but I’d hate to miss something important)

Thanks, Shannon

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- Shannon Smith 5 years ago
  
  In response to my previous comment…”Side View pg 3-3″ is missing on the Acoustical Guitar Templates…SORRY for the error, Shannon
  
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  - Shannon Smith 5 years ago
    
    IM AN IDIOT…I see the “Side View” of the He
    ad on pg 2. PLEASE DISREGARD MY POST
    
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    - Serdar Yener 5 years ago
      
      Good luck Shannon
      
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    - Serdar Yener 5 years ago
      
      Be nice to your self . Some times I am looking for my keys which is holding in my hand.
      
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lubomira sanders 5 years ago

Hi,
I can’t seem to access the guitar tutorial. It is only showing me the preview from you tube.
Am i doing something wrong? The other tutorials were perfect.
Love your classes thank you.

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- Serkan Yener 5 years ago
  
  Hi Lubomira, sorry for slow response. Please try logging out and logging back in. This should fix the problem. Thanks!
  
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- Serdar Yener 5 years ago
  
  Please get in touch with Serkan. He knows what to tell you. Thanks
  
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Lisa Robins 5 years ago

Hi Chef Yener, I would like to attempt this cake but in an electric guitar style for my husband’s 40th Birthday. Using one of his actual guitars, I have cut out a paper template for the guitar body and scratch plate. Would this tutorial give me what I need to be able to make the electric guitar, in particular the intricate details and the neck and head of the guitar? The finish I want to achieve is similar to the green electric guitar you made. Kind regards, Lisa

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- Serdar Yener 5 years ago
  
  I think you can convert the shape to the one you looking for . Good thing is you don’t have to make the neck in the air. because electric guitars are thinner. I would like to advice you make your drawing the top and side view . Plan your steps if there is a question mark ask me I let you know..
  
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Tania Ruscheva 6 years ago

Thank you for this absolutely totally professional tutorial.That was more than I expected.I will keep buying lessons from you and hopefully one day we will meet in person so I can shake your hand and say thank you. God bless you.

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Lavender Rangel 6 years ago

Hello! You’re work and detail to instruction is amazing! Thank you for inspiring and educating up and coming cake artists like myself! I do have a question, I am new to the site, so I’m not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask. I live in a small town in America where certain ingredients in pastillage are not available. Is it possible to use gum paste with 3 days drying time?

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- Serdar Yener 6 years ago
  
  There is many occasions you can use gum paste instead pastillage . But for the guitar neck and the bridge you need absoulute hardness thats why pastillage will be the only solution . What is not available in your town?
  
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Grisel Borgos 6 years ago

OMG!!! You are so awesome. I really enjoy this class. You are the best I have seen yet. I’ll always will say it.. love your work, and how you work, so clean. Beautiful Guitar Cake looks so real. I always feel so excited to see the end results. God bless your amazing talent. Thank you. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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- Serdar Yener 6 years ago
  
  Thank you. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too.
  
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Manya Unusyan 6 years ago

Wow is this real can’t wait to see how it going to turn out…………..

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Vicki Keel 6 years ago

WOW!!! What an awesome cake! I am absolutely amazed by your talent and creativity! Do you have any idea, timewise, when this video will be available for purchase?

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- Serdar Yener 6 years ago
  
  This is the first tutorial of december, still shooting .hopefully before 15 th
  
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Ljiljana Bakula 6 years ago

Super :o) !!!

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Elisabetta Morandi 6 years ago

I’d love to do this for my brother! I sincerely hope you are going to make this -:)

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maria subido 6 years ago

looks like the real thing! i wish you can do a tutorial for this soon

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Anne Smith 6 years ago

Amazing!

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Ann Sapphire 6 years ago

It looks like a real one…High Five! Well done Sir…

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Svetlana Cartwright 6 years ago

It’s awesome looking cake !!! Great job !!!

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Sue Green 6 years ago

An amazing piece of art.

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