Skill level: Intermediate
Cheers! I had the privilege of making a 40th birthday cake for a whiskey connoisseur and his closest friends.
This cake features a realistic whiskey barrel shape, edible metal details, a marbled cake board, a rounded bottom that seamlessly supports the cake and a working spigot inside that will let you put whiskey (or whatever beverage you are legally allowed to serve) at the event. This cake was a show-stopper, several attendants couldn't believe that it actually was cake or that it held whiskey inside.
1:41:13 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- How to make a realistic whiskey barrel cake with a working spigot inside
- Learn how to create a rounded cake base without using rice cereal treats
- How to add engraved lettering to a cake design
- Learn how to add a working spigot to the cake that can be filled with any drink
Tutorial Chapters
- Measuring the styrofoam base
- Carving the styrofoam base
- Building the cake stand
- Cutting threaded rod
- Preparing the board
- The whiskey spigot structure
- Stacking the cake
- Adding a middle cake board
- Adding straw supports
- Carving the cake
- Cutting the whiskey container
- Covering in buttercream
- Covering in fondant
- Pressing in letters
- Airbrushing the cake
- Decorating the board
- Barrel details