Jack Daniels Cake Attempt

So a while back Mike's dad had a 59th Bday Celebration with his fam and i thought it would be a great ideal to bake a cake and design it like the Jack Daniel's Label (since he was a huge JD fan)

and so with a little manipulation with photoshop... i did a couple of versions of the label to fit the ocassion



The winner got reversed and printed out so that i could trace it out on wax parchment paper with royal icing.
I rolled out some fondant i dyed with black food coloring and laid it out on the wax paper... and rolled out the fondant over it.


I made a layered cake (chocolate soufflé, regular cake, and caked laced with a shot of JD) used coffee buttercream frosting to put it all together.. everything from scratch... then rolled the fondant right on top of the cake.

First time piping out letterings.. and making/working with fondant... here's the results.. not to bad.. but i know better next time around..


after i trimmed the cake i realized i made it a bit smaller than the template... eh.. it was my first time! next time will be better.
his dad loved the cake! and so did the rest of the family! yay!
his dad was so cute.. he liked the cake so much he didnt really want to cut it =)
here's me being silly..

[caption: ooh no! all that hard work!] =)