I have some friends in Namibia. One day, one of them sent me email thru Facebook. She asked if I can help her to make surprise birthday cake for her husband. Her husband will be working at Consulate of The Republic of Indonesia in Cape Town. He'll be in Cape Town the day on his birthday. She'll send the money.
I love (happy) surprise and love to help to make the surprise come thru :)
So I answered her email and asked what kind of birthday cake she'd love me to make? Does he like chocolate cake or perhaps something else...cheesecake, maybe? And when I should be deliver the cake?
She replied my email and made me a bit shock when I read. She wanted me to make guitar cake because her husband love guitar. Chocolate, of course. Send to Indonesian Consulate.I shocked because I have no idea how to make a guitar cake. I don't want to make a cake with guitar tin. It's not a kind of cake that interested me. So I decided to make fondant cake.
I browsed to find out any ideas about guitar cakes. All of them made it from cake that carving into a guitar.
I took my husband's guitar and made a sketch. Even though I made
the smallest one, my cake base didn't fit with guitar sketch.
I don't want to make too small because it won't be enough to share with everybody in the office. The
problem was not the body of guitar,
but the guitar handle is too long.At night, I talked to my husband.
He told me why don't I make regular cake with the small guitar on top. That was brilliant! I kissed him to thank for the idea... well to be honest, even he didn't give me the idea, I would still kiss him...hehehehe...
Then I made a copy of guitars from my husband's music book. From there, I carved the body of guitars. Never thought it was sooooo difficult. Like I told you, I never take fondant baking course, besides I don't have knife carving.
Finally I could made 2 guitars. For the string, I used nylon string from my beads project..you need to be creative, when you had dead end..hehehe... For cake, I made 2 stuck cakes layer with chocolate ganache.
I thought about my friend and suddenly have an idea that she should be "there" to congrats her husband. Yes, she would be in the cake. As she used to wear "kebaya" (Indonesian traditional clothes) so I put her in Kebaya.
Frankly I didn't satisfied with my worked because it as not perfect for me. I must take fondant baking course when I returned to Indonesia.
The next day, the cake brought to the office by my lovely husband. The cake put on the birthday's person.
He came directly from the Cape Town airport to the office and got surprised to see the guitars cake in his desk!
One of friends in office took his pictures the 1st time he saw the cake. Later, his wife said it's really priceless to see his husband's expression...hahahhaha..
His husband thought the cake was ordered from a cake store by one colleague who asked to helped by his wife. He got surprised (for the 2nd time) when he knew it was made by me :)
He said the cake was beautiful and the taste so delicious. Even the "wife" so similar with is wife *blushing*
Glad to know I could met my customer's order and they satisfied with my worked :)
In 2 or 3 months ahead, my husband and I will be back to Indonesia for good. Because my husband's duty in Cape Town has finished. If you'd like to order cake/cupcakes and send to someone for her/his birthday surprise, just let me know. I'll be glad to make for you. The money can be transfer by bank or ATM :)
