I received a request for a 21st Birthday Cake. Playing on almost any American 21 year old’s eagerness to legally drink, his family thought a frothy beer mug cake would be just perfect. William had spent a summer in Muchen and so the mug was designed around a popular beer in that area.
I wasn’t quite sure how I would cover such a tall skinny cake with fondant, so instead, I cut out tall strips to cover the rounded pleats on a traditional beer mug. I pulled a mug from my husband’s stash and used it as a model, for the size, the handle and the general look of a beer mug.
To make the actual “beer” I simply hand painted the fondant with a couple of different edible colors. To make the foam/froth I baked up some merigne cookies and then topped the cake and sides with candy coating, making sure it created a small pool around the bottom of the cake as any beer drinker knows, when ordering a tall beer from a bar it often flows onto the table to make a bit of a mess.
The logo was a bit of a challenge, as I don’t have an edible printer so I had to make the small logo with the small gold crown and red jewels by hand. But I am very pleased with the way it turned out.
Finally, I had the beer mug sitting on a “wood surface” to mimic a table. The wood surface was fondant that I scored and again, hand painted to give it the look of real wood grain.
Happy Birthday William, I hope you enjoyed your beer cake and the beer that I am sure you enjoyed in celebration! Cheers!
Tam a Lam
Cakeaholiccakery.com
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