I made this cake for a colleague who was leaving work a couple of weeks ago. There was a standing joke that the company who operated the on-site vending machine would probably go out of business if she ever left, but it still seems to be there for the time being.
A photo of the original, real-life vending machine, just in case you can't tell the difference later :-).
The cake - it's a chocolate sponge with a chocolate buttercream filling.
Iced and ready for decorating. I was going to try mixing the colouring into the icing, but it came out a murky grey so I decided to paint it instead. It worked pretty well, but I think I needed to leave it a bit longer to dry properly.
The finished cake. The 'glass' is a piece of perspex I bought from a local farbication company, and the stuff inside is more icing painted with food colouring. I quite like the end result.
