With love, from my little kitchen to you...: Have your cake, and eat it too!

I have waited a long time to post this blog!

Yesterday was my brother's surprise 30th birthday party, which we've been planning for over a month now. And I have to say, it was a raving success! We totally surprised him. It was great.
What was also great, if I may say so, was the cake I made.
Chocolate Guinness cake with cream cheese filling and a cocoa Krispie treat "pint of beer".

Now, although this took me a really long time to make (mostly because I am not known for my baking skills), I don;t have a lot to say about it.
Duncan Hines did most of the work- I just put it together.
Here goes:
Cake mix, frosting, Guinness, etc...

The cake mix calls for 1 cup of water, so what I did was replace the water with Guinness to change the flavor of the cake a little bit

Ok, let's skip over all the boring baking details and get right to the decorating, shall we?

First, the "pint of beer". I decided to make this out of cocoa krispie treats, since it was waaaaayyyy easier than trying to carve a cake into the shape of a beer glass.

All I did was make the treats, put them in a pint glass (that I sprayed with cooking spray first to prevent sticking), then I popped them out. Voila! a krispie treat pint glass.

And, thanks to some help from the good people at Wilton, all I had to do was roll it out...

Then I sliced the back off the "krispie glass" so it would lay flat on the cake, frosted it, and covered it in fondant

Ok, onto the label. I printed it out, traced it, then piped the lettering onto it. And thanks to my awesome sister who loaned me her piping set, this job was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

After the label was done, I put it on the "pint glass" then added a little more frosting to that to make it look little more like a real glass of stout.