I made this Frozen Olaf cake and cupcakes for a 3-year-old girl. It is made up of a 5 inches round cake and a set of Frozen themed cupcakes. Decorated with a handmade fondant Olaf cake topper, a number 3 cake topper and 3D snowflakes and set on a DIY cupcake holder, this Frozen cake set is perfect for little girls' birthday cakes.
🧾Supplies Required
- Cake and cupcakes – the cake was a 5 inches round cake baked using my chocolate cake recipe. And the cupcakes were baked using my chocolate cupcakes recipe.
- Buttercream – I used chocolate buttercream for this cake and used it to fill the cake as well as to crumb coat both the cake and the cupcakes.
- Fondant – I used Satin Ice for the cake. The colors used were white, turquoise and dark blue. For the turquoise and dark blue colors, I tinted my white fondant with Americolor Turquoise and Americolor Navy Blue respectively.
- Fondant extruder tool – I used this tool to make the white frame around Anna and Elsa’s image on the side of the cake as well as the cake border. I used 2 different discs for this project, one which is a round circle disc (for the cake border) and the other a 3 holes combined disc (not sure how to describe the pattern but the image of the disc I as as shown below).
- Edible Image – I used edible images for this project. The images were provided by my customer and I merely resized them and sent them for printing from a local edible image printing vendor.
- Muffin casings – there were medium-sized ones.
- Snowflakes plunger cutter – This is a set of snowflakes cutters of the same pattern but in different sizes. I used these to make the 2D and 3D snowflakes on the cake.
- Lollipop Sticks – I used lollipop sticks for the initial “M” toppers
- Round scalloped cutters
- 3D Olaf cake topper – This was handmade and I have a separate tutorial and video for this.
- Number 3 topper – This was also made of fondant and wire.
- Shortening and fondant glue - these were my glues for this project.
👩🍳How to Make
Step 1: Make the cake and cupcake toppers. Follow these tutorials to make Olaf cake topper, 3D fondant snowflakes, the letter cupcake toppers and the number 3 topper.
Step 2: Attach the edible images and toppers to the cupcakes. Once baked and cooled, level the cupcake tops (for those that were domed). And then apply a thin layer of buttercream coating.
Use the scalloped round cutters and cut out round fondant pieces in white and turquoise and place them on the buttercream covered cupcakes. And then attach edible images on some and 3D standing snowflakes on some. For the other, cut out snowflakes in rolled fondant and stick them to the cupcakes.
Step 3: Decorate the cake. As for the cake, once baked and cooled, level, fill and crumb coat it with buttercream. And then covered it in turquoise fondant.
Attach the Anna and Elsa's edible image on the front side of the cake. To frame the image, use the extruder tool fitted with a three combined holes disc to pipe out a long strip of fondant.
Twist the strip gently to form the rope like finishing. Attach it to the cake using fondant glue.
As for the top of the Frozen Olaf cake, roll some white fondant strips and cut out a large circle using the scalloped cutter. And then, use a piping tip (with medium sized round opening) and cut out tiny holes in each scallop for a lace-like effect. Attach it to the cake with shortening.
Next, attach Olaf and the number ‘3’ topper on the cake. And finally, complete the decoration on the cake with the edible snowflakes.
Step 4: Assemble the cake and cupcakes on the cake and cupcake holder. To present the Frozen Olaf cake set, place them on the cupcake holder. The cake is on the top most tier. The cupcakes with 2D deco go the second tier. All those with 3D picks and edible images should be placed the lowest tier.
Since the Frozen Olaf cake was rather small, I added the ‘Happy Birthday’ message on the cupcake holder. I cut the letters with the same cutters I used for the initial “M” cupcake picks.
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