DIY Turntable Cake

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DIY Turntable Cake - finished cake I'm not a professional baker or cake decorator, but I do love making personalized desserts for my friends and family. I made this cake for my band bassist who adores collecting vinyl records (and playing them on his turntable all day). I've made it so the tonearm can be moved on and off the record, while staying 100% edible.

I used my recipe for a standard dense cake where I used one less egg, added some applesauce, and 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips. This makes for a good stable cake to decorate. You can use a box cake mix and use egg yolks instead of whole eggs, and add milk instead of water.

Total Time: 3 hours

Yield: 1 very fun cake!

Source: My crazy head ;)

Link: Video of this cake in action!

Supplies:

cake batter for 1 cake
square cake pan (I used a 7" springform)
serrated knife
1 1/2 cup chocolate chips
10 ounces buttercream frosting
spatula
butter knife
1 lb white fondant
rolling pin
kitchen scissors
dessert ring cutters (various sizes)
chopstick
silver cake spray
1/4 lb black fondant
1/8 lb yellow fondant
2 Pocky sticks
2 Starburst candies
3 orange sugar pearls

Steps:

Bake cake in a square pan and allow it to cool. Use your serrated knife to cut off the top so it's even.

DIY Turntable Cake - leveling the cake top

Melt chocolate chips in the microwave on high at 30 second increments, stirring each time, until completely melted and smooth.

DIY Turntable Cake - melt chocolate chips in the microwave

Add 6 ounces of buttercream frosting to melted chocolate and stir until smooth.

DIY Turntable Cake - add buttercream frosting to the melted chocolate and stir

Frost the top and sides of the cake evenly. Make sure there are no bumps.

DIY Turntable Cake - frost the top and sides of the cake, smooth bumps

Knead your white fondant for about 5 minutes to make it smooth and pliable.

DIY Turntable Cake - knead the white fondant

Measure your cake's surface and sides to figure out how big your rolled out fondant should be. Roll it out to those dimensions at about 1/8" thickness.

DIY Turntable Cake - roll fondant to size for top and sides and 1/8th inch thick

Add a little bit of buttercream frosting on the iced cake. This will act as both a glue for the fondant and a filler for uneven cake areas.

DIY Turntable Cake - add buttercream to the iced cake to attach fondant

Drape the rolled fondant on top of the cake and press into the sides and corners, pulling downwards. Cut off the excess with scissors and set aside to use for the decoration details.

DIY Turntable Cake - drape the rolled fondant and adjust to cover cake, trim excess with scissors

Smooth out any bubbles, then slice the fondant off neatly with a sharp knife at the bottom of the cake.

DIY Turntable Cake - smooth out any bubbles and use the sharp knife to trim bottom edge

To make the turntable platter, roll out some of the white fondant to 1/4" thickness. Use large ring cutter to cut out a circle.

DIY Turntable Cake - roll fondant to 1/4 inch and use a circle cutter to make turntable platter

Use the tip of a round chopstick to make imprints around the platter, then spray paint it with the silver cake spray and allow to dry completely.

DIY Turntable Cake - use tip of a round chopstick to decorate the edge and then spray silver

Knead the black fondant then roll it out to 1/8" thickness. Use a smaller ring to cut out the vinyl record.

DIY Turntable Cake - knead and roll out the black fondant to 1/8th inch, use a smaller ring to cut out the record

Using some buttercream as glue, attach the platter to the top left of the cake.

DIY Turntable Cake - attach the turntable platter to the cake at the top left, using some buttercream frosting

Then "glue" on the vinyl record.

DIY Turntable Cake - attach the vinyl record

Knead some yellow fondant and roll out to 1/8" thickness. Cut out an even smaller circle. "Glue" to the vinyl record.

DIY Turntable Cake - roll out yellow fondant to 1/8th inch and cut a small circle and "glue" to the center of the record

To make the tonearm, place a Pocky stick on some rolled out fondant.

DIY Turntable Cake - to make the tonearm lay a Pocky stick on a rolled piece of fondant

Wrap the Pocky in fondant and shape into tonearm. Give it a head and a needle shape using your fingers and tip of chopstick.

DIY Turntable Cake - roll the Pocky in the fondant and create a head and needle shape

Spray one of the Starburst candies with the silver cake spray and allow to dry. Press into top right of cake, then press chopstick into the middle to make a little hole.