It's Sunday and we all know what that means - FOOTBALL. Or for those of us on the East Coast, it means batten down the hatches and get ready for Hurricane Sandy. Either way, you should have a stockpile of beer on hand.
If you don't have the beer on hand, or prefer a non-alcoholic way to celebrate your favorite team this Sunday, perhaps a beer inspired cake will do the trick (or treat)!
(In full disclosure, I am way more excited about the food at football watching parties than I am about the game!)
For Josh's birthday earlier this year, his only birthday cake request was for Funfetti. So I begrudgingly bought a box of Funfetti cake mix and did what I could to make the outside more unique than the box would suggest. What better than a giant mug of beer in the midst of being poured?
We baked the cake in circular pans and stacked it up, layered with simple vanilla cream filling, to create the mug. Next the cake was wrapped around with chocolate fondant to make the outside of the mug. Whipped and frothy buttercream topped the cake for a great beer foam. We even ran some "condensation drops" down the side to make it look as though the cold beer was sweating in the mug.
But the best part is clearly the pouring beer in mid air. For this part we took chopsticks and wrapped them with fondant to create the flowing beer and perched an empty can (with a personalized label!) on top of the "beer."
Ta-da!
A fresh, still pouring beer for the birthday boy!
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