Yesterday was David's 26th birthday. I decided it would be nice to have a little family get together for him so between me, his mom, and his stepmom we pretty much got it squared away. I did the cake and Connie and Hazel took care of cooking dinner.
To add an element of fun we decided to surprise him. It's hard to surprise David because, well, he's nosy:). But we pulled it off thanks to strategically hiding cars in our garage and way down the street! And of course the misdirection in phone calls and the usual surprise tactics.
David's nieces and nephews made Bday signs to hang up and everyone hid in the kitchen while David came in from work and sang Happy Birthday to him. We all had a very nice dinner together, shot the breeze, and the little ones had fun playing games. I am now a certified musical chair mp3 DJ if anyone is interested.
Since I was off on Friday, I decided to make David a birthday cake. And since my gifts to him were in regard to his guitars, I also decided that it should be a guitar cake. But more on the cake later.
We shoved 26 candles into one poor little moonpie and sang the birthday song to David again and he blew out his candles. His lung capacity is so good we hardly could get a picture. But wow all the smoke from soooo many candles:)! David opened his presents, made out like a bandit, and was pretty much just a happy camper. We had the pleasure of having post-dinner entertainment provided by Jake and Melissa's girls.
When I asked David if he knew we had something planned, he said "I had no idea, but I hoped!" Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband.
Part II-How to Make an Acoustic Guitar "Cake"
Including Backstory and Instructions.
Since I had this guitar brainstorm, I felt the need to follow through. After some online scouting, I didn't like what I was seeing so I took the one good idea I found and made up the rest. I would like to give thanks to google searching for the idea of using wafer cookies as frets, but had to expand the idea to my own liking.
Here's the stuff that you need.
Ingredients-1 8 inch round cake pan
-1 9 inch round cake pan
-1 cup white granulated sugar
-1 cup Lite Corn Syrup (Karo brand for me)
-1.5 bags of butterscotch chips
-6 cups rice krispies cereal
-1.5 cups creamy peanut butter
-1 container chocolate frosting
-enough margarine or butter to coat the pans
-12 mini-M&Ms (6 brown, 6 yellow)
-30-40 chocolate wafer cookies (Keebler sells the only ones I could find in the right shape and I bought 2 bags)
-6 mini marshmallows
-3 pretzel sticks
-1 double-decker chocolate moonpie
Directions
The Base
1. Generously butter both pans and set aside.
2. In a large pot, mix together corn syrup and sugar stirring constantly until it reaches a rolling boil. Continue to stir for 1 minute and then remove from heat.
3. Quickly stir in peanut butter until it all melts.
4. Rotate pouring the rice krispies and the peanut butter mix into a large bowl and then stir to mix it all together.
5. Butter your hands and/or spoon and transfer mix into your two round cake pans.
6. Let rice krispie treats solidify. You can put in fridge to speed up this process.
Note: I arranged the moonpie into the smaller round pan and left an indention for the bottom of the moonpie in the larger pan like a puzzle piece fitting together. If you don't put the moonpie in at this stage, leave a crescent shaped hole at the top of the larger pan and another at the bottom of the smaller pan for easier molding.
Adding Colors and Decorations
1. Remove the rice krispie treats from the pans and place on a serving platter or tinfoil.
2. The larger pan will serve as the bottom of the guitar and the smaller pan will be the top.
Place the moonpie into the crescent shape hole in between the top and bottom halves. Be sure you are delicate with the moonpie because the coating will come off.
3. Mold the rice krispies with your hands to encircle the moonpie and finish the guitar body shape.
4. Use a water bath or double boiler to melt the butterscotch chips.
5. Use an icing spatula to coat the top of the guitar with the melted butterscotch. Do not cover the moonpie.
6. Adhere 1 wafer cookie in the middle of the bottom circle of the guitar body as shown above. You can use chocolate frosting piped through a ziplock bag by cutting a hole in the corner as a "glue gun".
7. Arrange the other wafer cookies stacked two high side by side from the top of the guitar body. I did about 15 rows to make the neck of the guitar long enough.
8. Break the 3 pretzel sticks in half and press one marshmallow onto one end of each halved pretzel. Use the frosting "glue gun" and press the pretzel sticks into the top three sets of wafer cookies. Use the picture above as a guide. You will need to hold the other wafer cookies in place while you press the pretzel sticks in place to keep them from sliding.
9. Use chocolate frosting to draw the six strings from the wafer cookie on the guitar bottom all the way up to the pretzels and marshmallows. Look at a picture of an actual guitar if you need help.
10. Place a brown M&M for each line/string on the wafer cookie at the bottom of the guitar and a yellow M&M at the top end of each line/string by the pretzel/marshmallow tuners.
11. Use chocolate frosting to cover the side edge of the rice krispies.
It's not as complicated as it sounds. The hardest part really is molding the rice krispies around the moonpie. After that, it's all fun and decorating. For those of you who are familiar with scotcharoos, you can see where I got the variation for the body of the guitar. Special thanks to Evie, my old roommate, for introducing me to scotcharoos several years ago:). Good luck if you decide to try it for yourself. Everyone seemed to be happy with the way it tasted too.
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