Beer Battered Cake

Hi Crafty Pals!

My older brother, Scott had a birthday last week, so it was his turn to get a paper cake!   My brothers are all generally hard to shop for, because since we are all adults now... we just buy whatever we want for ourselves.  So, giving cash makes my paper cakes a lot easier to fill!  A couple years ago for Christmas, I gave Scott a Beertender, he liked it so much that he decided he wanted a full-sized keg one.  (A Kegerator.)  So for his birthday, I wanted to get it filled with whatever favorite beer he wanted, but it's not like I could just go grab his keg, and take it to the store to have it filled.  Not without him knowing anyway.  So instead I gave him cash, so that he could do it himself.  

My brother is a fun-loving guy.  He is always laughing and joking, and teased me merciless when we were kids!!  So, of course I had to give him birthday money all in ones!!  Yep.. eighty, one-dollar bills!!  (Actually, one ended up being a Silver Certificate.  How funny is that!?  The bank accidentally slipped it in with the ones.)  I rolled each one up in a bit of a hurry, not that I would have noticed that one was a Silver Certificate anyway...not with my eyesight!  I packed eight, rolled up $1.00 bills into each cake piece.    Here is a picture of the finished cake:

Please ignore my messy desk in the background!  (Of course there is a diet coke can in there too.  It's like playing "Where's Waldo" with my pictures...I think each one contains a can of diet coke! LOL.) 

The cake boxes were cut at 9" from the Tags, Bags, Boxes, And More Cricut Cartridge.  I glued silver bottle caps on the back/ends of each piece...and inside the bottle caps is a '30' (for his age.) 

The cake was placed on a metal bottle cap sign that said.... um.... I can't exactly remember what it said! LOL.  It was something like, "Cold Beer Always On Tap!"  I thought it made a unique cake pan/holder for my paper cake!! :)  The topper is a 'keg' cut out of silver metallic paper.  (It is actually the barrel cut from one of the Paper Doll cartridges, along with some Gypsy Magic!   (I don't remember if it was Paper Doll Dress Up, or Everyday Paper Dolls...but I can look if anyone needs to know.)     

(I can not figure out what that reflection on the 'keg' could be of!??! Haha!)  Anyway, Thanks for looking at my project!!   I think I am off the hook with paper cakes until July now!!  (I am probably forgetting someone though!) 

Have a great, crafty day!! :)