Cake decorating/Icing

[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. (sorry I posted this in wrong category earlier!)

Thanks in advance

[rabbitygirl]

I'm not a trained cake maker/decorator but I did have a successful business for a while doing novelty cakes. I would use sugar paste, but I wouldn't chance making a lid from this alone. Better to make the lid to size in something rigid (maybe a thin cake board propped on the silver side) and then cover it in the paste. It shouldn't be too weighty but it depends on your cake.