My niece's daunting request to make an electric guitar cake for her birthday resulted in one of my favorite cakes yet. My first decision in making the guitar cake was to determine whether to bake it in a sheet pan or two round pans. I decided that there would be less room for error using two round pans due to the natural curve of a guitar. (Cake carving is not one of my strengths.) I baked one vanilla cake using two 8-in round pans. The next obstacle was how to design the guitar. After a bit…
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