Whiskey Bottle Cake - with and without alcohol
This cake was as a farewell cake for my (former) boss. He was the one who hired me in my current job and, while not a huge fan of cake and sweets, he can talk passionately on the subject of whiskey. I just couldn't think of anything more fitting. I had to make him a whiskey cake. The cake itself was Caribbean Rum Cake with the rum replaced with whiskey. The non-alcoholic version was made with water and rum flavoring. I also made a batch of Swiss meringue buttercream. I took about two cups of it and added a few tablespoons of whiskey to it. I had baked the cake in bread pans. I leveled them and placed them on a cake board. I started out carving into a round bottle form. I carved the non-alcoholic cake into a bottle shape. Then I carved the alcoholic cake into a different bottle form. I was pretty happy with them at this point. Then I crumb coated the cakes. The left one with regular buttercream and the right one with whis...