Cake makers - any ideas on how best to do a treble clef cake?

[Pennies]

I thought i'd just do a rectangle cake and either paint a treble clef on it, or I'd make one out of sugar paste / flower paste. I'm planning a cake that is A4 sized with the TC covering the cake top to bottom (approx 30cm).

The thing is painting doesn't always look great, esp for large block colours and I'm really stuck for how I'd make one out of sugar / flower paste. For the latter I'm concerned about the following problems:

1. how do I get it from the work surface onto the cake without it breaking?

2. if I do it in bits how best to hide the joins?

3. how best to soften the edges so they don't look too blunt and it doesn't just looked plonked on top of the cake IYKWIM.

All ideas and suggestions very welcome!

Pennies

You're one talented lady. Cake looks perfect!

That's very kind of you but the picture is very small so you can't really see the repair job. Basically the covering is not so even as it was and the flooding all cracked too so I spent ages it last night trying to paint it with water to try and re-soften it so it might dry flat, but with mixed results.

Gutted. I was so stupid to not move it over when I should have done. I think I was so focused on the design challenge that I forgot my basics.

And very very tired.

Well if they don't want it I'll buy it!

It looks great as far as I can see, Pennies. Well done! And I love the orange circles.

Unfortunately, DS2 saw the pirate cake. Not sure I can do that!

I think I would have been tempted to dress the chopping board up and leave the cake where it was - having had a masterpiece fall over and self-destruct on the way to the party it was for, I feel your pain, though.

Well done - the TC looks fab.