Bottle of Jack Daniels inside a Jack Daniels Cake
-by Baked Ideas
Think of how nice it would be for someone to cut into a cake made especially for them and find something they love inside! And who doesn’t love some whiskey? >_^
Patti Paige shared these behind the scenes photos of this Jack Daniels cake, with a very special surprise inside… a bottle of Jack!
This cake is an example of well-executed cake design: form fitting and fun.
Patti and the team at Baked Ideas sculpted this cake so the whiskey bottle fit sturdily into its cloned cakey shell. What an awesome idea for a sculpted groom’s cake or any celebration cake!
Structure:
Patti carved foam block for a 350ml bottle of Jack Daniels to sit in, and then built on top of it with cake. This allowed her to make the cake to scale and have the right amount of cake servings.
She placed cake boards at every 4 inches of cake, starting with a board on top of the foam base. Dowels were cut to fit in-between the boards. Each board was cut precisely to fit around the botte. Cutting right to the bottle allows the maximum amount of cake to stand sturdily around the bottle’s center.
To form the top of the bottle, Patti carved cereal treats.
The entire cake was covered in chocolate ganache and then covered with white fondant after sitting in the fridge to harden. The white fondant was artfully painted in an the amber whiskey hue. Black fondant was used to cover the top of the bottle, and wrapped around the cake for the bottle’s label.
Design Transfer Technique: Royal Icing Stamp
To make the bottle’s label, Patti made a stamp from royal icing and foam board. She used the stamp press the lines of the design into the fondant as a guide for her exquisitely detailed piping.
Stay tuned for how to make your own royal icing stamp in an upcoming video post!
Take a look at another great technique: the pinprick transfer technique.
Artful sculpted cake tip
Add some interest with food color. I love that the painting on this cake captures the luminosity of the liquid and glass. Using food color to add depth or texture can really make a cake stand out. Baked Ideas made this cake a decorator’s inspiration- inside and out!
More Baked Ideas
Think of how you can place something inside a cake for a nice element of surprise! Maybe some chocolate coins inside a Lucky Cat Bank Cake ? How about a scary haunted house for halloween with gummy worms inside? Just imagine what you can do!
Be safe!
I’m putting on my nurse hat, now. Remember that safety comes first: Make sure to place the surprise object inside of the cake with care so that the cake is still safe to eat, and won’t have tiny parts for someone to choke on! x_X
Patti Paige is the head cake and cookie designer at Baked Ideas. Her special creations have been featured in dozens of magazines and on TV. She recently decorated her famous sugar cookies on Barefoot Contessa! Her cookies cutters and other edible works of art, like her Gingerbread Yoga cookies, are available to order on the Baked Ideas website. For daily inspiration stay connected on the Baked Ideas Facebook Page.
The building was carved so that it looked like a perspective drawing from a graphic novel - starting out wider at the top, and tapering at the bottom. The roof was carved at an angle to exaggerate the feel foreshortening. I outlined the building in black so that it looked hand-drawn. Notice the comic textures of ink dots and lines. These were all drawn with edible marker.
Royal icing details can be painted with metallic luster dust mixed with lemon extract. It really makes a nice detail, and can mimic a silver dragée when you don’t have any!