Vinyl Player Cake

This is a cake that I made back in November for my boyfriend's 21st birthday as he's a big music fan. (Sorry for the HUGE delay in uploading!!) I wanted to try and make the vinyl player look as authentic as possible, so used a lot of different processes to try and achieve the right colours and textures. 

Each component had a number of different stages before the final assembly and from beginning to end, it probably took about 8 hours! 

Rather than provide a huge list of instructions on how to replicate the cake, I've organised this post as more of a pictorial guide, including details of a few products I used. 

Hope you enjoy! 

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Vinyl Player Cake 

Firstly, I created the fondant components, as I wanted them to have time to firm up before assembling. 

I used the following templates for the different components, after sketching out the cake and then scaling it up to size:

Black fondant provided the base for the record itself. I used a cocktail stick to scratch in the details by drawing round a number of different cups and bowls. I then used edible glue to stick a circle of rice paper into the centre, and then stuck a small ball of black fondant on top of this. 

Finally, I sprayed the entire vinyl with 3 coats of PME clear edible glaze spray (letting it dry in between each time). The spray is absolutely brilliant and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to provide a glossy sheen to fondant icing. 

Next, I created the dial for the cake. This was also created out of black fondant, and I used Sugarflair edible liquid colour in Silver to mark in the details with a cocktail stick. This colour is great! It has a very intense colour and shine, requiring only a single layer on black fondant to show up.

Finally I sprayed the entire dial with shine spray to obtain the same glossy effect. 

Using yellow fondant, I created switches for the vinyl player, and painted these with Sugarflair edible liquid colour in Gold. Again, this has a very intense colour. It is quite an orangey shade of gold, and there are other shades available, but I quite liked the brightness of this shade, as I intended most of the rest of the cake to be shades of grey, browns and black.

Again, these were finished off with a liberal coating of shine spray! 

I created an arm for the vinyl player out of grey and black fondant, then painting the grey with the silver edible colour to match the other components of the cake. I stuck the two colours of icing together with edible glue and left them to set. 

In the photos below you can see the effect of one coat of shine spray (Left image: uncoated, Right image: 1 coat of shine spray). 

I backed the gold switches onto small rectangles of black fondant to make them stand out. I then stuck these and the dial to a long piece of grey fondant - painted with silver spray and glaze sprayed - with edible glue. 

I also shaped two small round circles of fondant and painted these gold. These are the resting points for the vinyl player "arm." 

I made two layers of sponge in a very large tin and sandwiched them together with strawberry jam and Betty Crocker Vanilla Buttercream Style Icing. This has a really good texture and saved me the trouble of making my own buttercream on top of making all the other components! 

 

I then covered the entire outside of the sponge in buttercream icing and covered it with white fondant. 

Once covered in white fondant, I started to add some more details to start to turn the cake into a vinyl player! 

I bought this selection of different brown shades of fondant on Amazon. I chose a selection of shades to try and get a good wood effect. 

I combined a small amount of all of the shades and mixed them enough so that they were mostly incorporated, but still leaving veins of differing colour throughout. 

I cut lengths of the icing to the size required to each side of the cake. Then I used a special "wood effect" icing embosser that I also bought on Amazon to provide the wood pattern. Using the buttercream, I stuck this lengths of icing to the sides. 

Around the edges of the surface of the cake, I stuck half-inch wide lengths of brown fondant as a continuation from the sides to complete the wood effect. I then gave all of the "wood" a liberal coating of shine spray 

I then assembled all of the components of the cake on the surface, sticking them with buttercream. 

And here is the completed cake! 

Hope you enjoyed this post! 

Love, Chloe xx 

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