Icing/Cake decor - tips urgently required!

[Meg888]

I am making an old fashioned record player cake, those ones that were inside of a case and you closed the lid with hinges?? I\'m sure some out there may remember them! I\'m just a bit stuck for which type of icing to use for the lid; I want the \'lid\' to be open at an angle (i have the dowels to support it) I just need to know what type of icing to use ie sugar paste or flower paste? I want it to go hard, but stay light enough to support.

[lollyone]

Hiya,
I'm sorry I don't have an answer to your question, but I want to make something similar- a chocolate box, And was wondering How you are going to make the lid when you do. Will you do each panel then stick them together? Or will you mould it around something as 1 whole piece? I've just started a cake decorating course and need to get practicing! Thanks.

[Meg888]

Hi Lollyone. I've had an answer on a different post/same question in F&D (posted it here by mistake). They suggested using sugarpaste icing but to not to make it out of this alone, but to ice a thin cakeboard or something similar - I suppose if it's made entirely out of icing or chocolate - it could collapse in the middle or if made of choc if prob defo would at room temperature. You would get away with making a lid out of just choc or coloured icing probably if you, had a square choc box with chocs 'spilling' out the top, so that the 'lid' is resting on these. My prob is that I want to have the lid supported only by a couple of 'brackets' but need the icing hard enough to stand at an angle on its own. Good luck with yours (why not ask your cake decor tutor for a tip?) - if you crack the code please pass the tip(s) on via this link! thanks