Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake for 1st Birthday

I made this Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake for a first-year birthday. The cake was requested by the parents, of course. And they gave me a specific image they wanted me to recreate for their little boy.

The original image had the same 3D Mickey Mouse face on the cake. However, the sides of the cake had the design of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on a blue background with white clouds. I changed the background to white and instead of the clouds, I added stars and round fondant cut-outs.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake

Other than that, the cake was pretty much the same as the image I was provided with. And as usual, I tried to trace the original designer of this cake. But much to my disappointment, there were just so many of this cake design recreated all over the web, it was impossible to find out who the original designer was!

Anyhow, this was a really fun cake to make and I truly enjoyed decorating it.

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How to Decorate a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake

Main supplies for the cake:

• Cake – This was literally a 2 tier cake, with Mickey Mouse’s face being the first tier and the clubhouse tier being the second tier. Both cakes were baked using my butter pound cake recipe. The top tier was baked in a bowl while the bottom tier in two 8 inches round cake tins.
• Buttercream – I used buttercream to sandwich the bottom tier and crumb coat both tiers.
• Fondant – The entire cake was covered and decorated in fondant. I used Satin Ice in white, black, yellow, red, blue and light brown (white fondant tinted with Wilton Brown food color).
• CMC powder – I added this to the black fondant when making Mickey’s ears.
• Clikstix alphabet cutter– this was all the lettering work on the cake.
• Star plunger cutter set
• Round plunger cutter set
• Round cutter set
• Extruder tool
• Pizza cutting wheel
• Sugar craft knife
• Needle scribe tool
• Fondant glue

Assembling the cake:

The cakes

• I started by baking the cakes. The cake I used for Mickey Mouse’s face was rounded so I used a stainless steel bowl to bake it. The bottom layer cake, was baked using 2 round cake tins measuring 8 inches in diameter each. 
• Once the cakes have baked and completely cooled down to room temperature, I leveled and sandwiched them with buttercream and gave both a thin coat of buttercream crumb coat. 
• I covered the bottom layer 8 inch round cake with white fondant and set it aside while decorating the ‘Mickey Mouse face’ cake. 

Mickey Mouse’s Face

• For Mickey’s face, I covered the dome-shaped cake in black. Next, I drew the light brown portion of Mickey Mouse’s face on a parchment and used it as a template to cut out the light brown portion of the face. I also drew Mickey’s eyes, nose and mouth on the paper and used it as a template to cut these features in black and white accordingly. 
• I attached the eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows on the light brown fondant and then, attached the light brown portion of the face onto the head. It is easier to add the facial features this way rather than putting them directly on the cake.

Side view of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake

Mickey Mouse’s ears

• Next, I made Mickey’s ears. These were cut entirely in black fondant. I added CMC to it to allow it to set hard and firm). And I cut each ear using a round cutter and made each one of them to about 3mm thick. This was to allow a thin wooden skewer to be inserted through the center of the ears to help position them on Mickey’s face as well as to hold them in place on the cake (I brush the skewers with some glue before poking them into the fondant. I did not poke the ears into the cake immediately after making them. I let them rest until they have hardened so that they don’t break or tear off from the wooden skewers when placed on the cake.

The Clubhouse design

• While waiting for Mickey Mouse’s ears to set, I went on to decorate the bottom layer of the cake (the Clubhouse design).  
• I started with the Clubhouse image. I cut the components of the Clubhouse using my round cutters and sugarcraft knife and attached them to the cake with glue. 
• And then I added tiny stars in red, blue, and yellow on one side of the cake. While on the other side, I cut out rings (using my round cutters) and attached them to the cake. 
• For the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake border, I pinched red, white, black, blue, and yellow fondant in equal sizes. I formed them into round balls and attached them all around the cake. In attaching these balls, I made sure the colors matched the deco on the sides of the cake. 

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake

• Finally, I added “Mickey Mouse’s face” cake on top of the clubhouse cake tier. Since the ‘face’ was quite big, I supported its weight on the bottom tier cake with dowel rods. 

Wordings on the cake

• I then added the wordings on the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake. These were cut using the Clikstix alphabet cutters in blue fondant. I added the birthday boy’s name on the cake. The message “Our baby turns 1”, on the other hand, was added on the cake board. 
• After that, I added a medium-sized long strip of fondant in black as the border for the “Mickey face” cake. The border was only attached to the black portion of the cake. I did not add any border to the front side of Mickey’s face. 

And with that, the Mickey Mouse clubhouse cake was complete.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake

Happy decorating 🙂