The Wine Box Cake

This was another cake I threw together. I will say a quick disclaimer that I truly hope that when my then 2 yo boy grows up a bit that I can spend more time on these cakes. He had to "help" with this one; hence the steak bottle appearance of the wine bottle. I used an actual wine bottle to carve the cake and had it rounded nicely like a bottle. My then 2 yo came up behind me, and pushed the bottle on the cake, squishing it to oblivion. I had no time or other option than to serve the wine bottle as a steak bottle looking thing! :)

Here's the powerpoint clip art rendition that I used to build the cake. Not too shabby when you compare to the real thing.


A view from the top. I used toasted coconut as the straw. I mixed chocolate and vanilla icing to make the wood grain look on the box.


The "nails" in the box were chocolate chips.


Very easy cake to make and decorate. For the box, I stacked two 9x13 cakes and cut out a recess in the top one. Crumbcoated the entire thing, then iced with the chocolate/vanilla mixture for the woodgrain look. The wine bottle was another 9x13 cake that was sculpted into the shape. Tinted chocolate icing with black to get the black bottle color, and used yellow to trim it up.