Beer cake - an original gift idea

A spectacularly decorated beer cake is able to please and surprise your beloved guy more than an expensive trinket. Using your favorite drinks with snacks instead of decorations on a dish, you can prepare an original, relatively inexpensive and tasty surprise for any upcoming men's holiday.

How to make beer cake

In an attempt to please their dear chosen ones, their beloved ladies invent new culinary masterpieces or make homemade souvenirs. A cool cake for a beer lover is one of the win-win and budget ideas that almost all members of the stronger sex like. It takes a little money to build a structure from cans and bottles. All the main components used to prepare your surprise will not be lost and will be enjoyed by guests at a fun feast.

Preparing the original dish is extremely simple:

1. A beer cake is a composite structure in which the main elements are containers with a foamy drink.
2. The container is arranged in one or more tiers. Cans and bottles can be combined. The main condition is to obtain the most stable structure.
3. Additional elements - cardboard, fabric, colored ribbons, hot glue, snacks in colorful packages. Boxes of tobacco products and miniature bottles of spirits are less commonly used.
4. When a surprise is made miniature and single-tiered, the jars are placed on a tray or in a beautiful box, tying them together with a beautiful bow.
5. If you plan to build a multi-tiered beer cake, then you will need special sites. They are easy to make from cardboard or other lightweight sheet material (plywood, thin boards of a suitable size).
6. More often, beer cakes are created in a round shape, which facilitates the construction of multi-storey structures, but depending on the author’s idea, you can give your gift any configuration.
7. It is necessary to cut blanks from cardboard for the manufacture of the lower platform. Its size is accurately calculated based on the number and diameter of the container used.
8. If the material is relatively thin, then it is recommended to glue several circles together.
9. From above, it is better to decorate cardboard circles with kraft paper or foil.
10. The bottom stand is ready.
11. Make the platforms for the upper tiers in the same way, but reduce their diameter by about 5 cm each time, so that a relatively regular cone is formed in the final.
12. To enhance the stability of the structure, connect the lower and upper platforms together with support posts in the center of the structure.
13. As a stand, a cardboard cylinder is suitable, the diameter and height of which are approximately equal to the size of a beer can. To mask the column, it is desirable to paste over with kraft paper.
14. Glue the stand in the center of the large circle.
15. Glue the second circle on top of the cylinder.
16. Fill in turn all the tiers of the beer cake with cans.
17. It is allowed to glue plastic cups to the upper base, then filling them with appropriate snacks.
18. An alternative way is to place pizza or other dishes on top.
19. An original gift with a relatively flat roof is recommended to be decorated with congratulatory inscriptions or candles.
20. Wrap a beer gift cake in a transparent film and decorate with a ribbon.

Canned beer cake

The aluminum container differs in the compact sizes. Drinks in cans are stable, so it is easy to build even three-tiered structures from them on stands made of plywood or cardboard. The factory packaging looks presentable, in the simplest version, when decorating, you can limit yourself to only bows or a small amount of tinsel. Consider a few examples of canned beer cake:

• Single tier canned beer cake with blue bows.

• Two tier beer cake.

• Do-it-yourself three-tier cake from beer in cans.

beer bottle cake

Glassware is relatively taller than jars and has a thin neck, so the structure is more shaky. Cake from beer bottles should be placed on reliable platforms. When constructing large pyramids, it is recommended to cut holes in the intermediate platforms in a circle to fix the container. It is better not to carry a high structure around the room, immediately installing it in a place of honor.

Some spectacular examples of bottle cake:

• A giant beer pyramid - the lower tiers are laid out from heavy plastic bottles of 1-2 liters, and the upper ones consist of drinks in glass containers of 0,5 liters.

• Anniversary gift from beer bottles. The design is crowned with only one bottle, so it turned out to be relatively stable.

• Three-tiered beer surprise for a name day.

Cake of beer and snacks

Men are indifferent to shiny tinsel and bows, but they will gratefully note the presence of tasty additives to their favorite drink in the gift. A beer cake for a man with snacks has a cool look, when using shiny bags, the hostess has more design options. Crackers, nuts or other delicacies can be placed in cups on stands or made into a special decoration.

Examples of a beer surprise with snacks:

• Products are evenly distributed in transparent bags and wine glasses on all tiers.

• Beautiful pyramid with a mug on top. Its foot is decorated with foil, and sausages on sticks play the role of festive candles at the top.

• Tiny snack cake. Nuts, beautifully packaged in paper, resemble exotic fruits.

Beer and fish cake

Aquatic inhabitants in salted or dried form are suitable for any sort of popular drink. Those who wish to prepare a unique beer cake for a man are recommended to use a small tasty fish as decorations. If the roach or perch do not fit well into the design of the composition or do not fit on the pyramid, then it is better to put it at the foot separately, making an original edible bouquet.

Several successful options for decorating a delicious fish dish:

• A beer cake-bouquet with fish, sausages and other snacks, an unpresentable bucket here is covered with colored paper.

• A jar cake with a fish, the design is extremely simple, a couple of bows are decorated, the original top of the pyramid is lined with a snack.

• Beer pyramid with a bouquet of dried fish.

Beer and pizza cake

A thin round cake with a filling takes up a lot of space and is not suitable as a base. In most cases, a delicious pizza decorates a beer cake for a man on top, and jars with bottles act as a pedestal for a large tray in the composition. With this arrangement, the design is stable, it is convenient to decorate it with congratulatory inscriptions and candles. Consider the most common examples of this dish:

• A beer surprise with pizza, the jars are tied with a bow, the dish is decorated with a festive inscription.

1. An anniversary cake on a budget, appetizers with fish on the bottom of the tray, and pizza on top of the platter.

Beer and socks cake

Even such banal gifts as warm socks can be presented in an interesting way, creating cool surprises out of them. Many needlewomen have learned how to fold fabric beautifully, creating bouquets of unfading flowers. Unusual decor will perfectly complement the men's beer cake, helping to combine an edible and practical present into one composition. The second option is to lay out a soft cone of folded socks, and carefully place bottles of your favorite drink 0,33 liters on top.

Beer cake with candles

Colorful illumination can turn even a primitive pyramid of cans with bottles into a kind of festive dish. A beer cake with candles looks incredibly impressive, instantly turning into the main object at the party. Large and strong dishes can be decorated with bright sparkling sparklers by carefully inserting metal rods between tiers. Small candles are placed between the rows or on the lids, depending on the author's idea and the design of the structure.

Decoration of beer cakes with illumination:

• A jar cake, all tiers of which are decorated with thin candles.

• A large bottle cake, numerous lighted candles are installed here on metal caps.

• Beer surprise with fireworks.

beer and cigarette cake

Tobacco products and smoking accessories remain desirable gifts for many people, regardless of the harmfulness of their use. If desired, a do-it-yourself beer cake for a man can easily be supplemented with a pack of cigarettes of your favorite variety, attaching it to the top or at another point in the structure. The location must be chosen depending on the number of packages and the color of the box. Large blocks of cigarettes can be used as a bottom or intermediate stand for your original dish.

Beer and cognac cake

Strong drinks of high quality, bottled in bottles of different capacities, are easy to use for decorating can pyramids. It is impractical to create full tiers of them, unlike beer, elite varieties of alcohol are relatively more expensive. It is better to use dotted inclusions in small containers, giving the gift a noble and expensive look. A single stylish container is suitable for decorating the central part of the composition. We offer good options for how to lay out the original cake from beer with cognac:

• Miniature cognac-beer cake. Several small bottles are located at the foot of the pyramid, others are glued to wooden rods and pushed outward to decorate the top of the dish like decorative candles.

• Large cognac-beer cake. Smaller bottles are scattered throughout the levels of the structure, with a bulky bottle at the top.