Belle Cake (Beauty and The Beast Princess Cake)

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This Belle cake design is a Beauty and the Beast themed doll cake. Decorated with fondant, this Disney princess cake is perfect for birthdays!

Prep Time30

Cook Time55

Decorating time2 30

Total Time3 55

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches dome shaped cake

Calories: 6671.1kcal

Buttercream
Fondant
Food coloring - Wilton Golden Yellow Wilton Brown, Wilton Red, Wilton Leaf Green

Preheat oven to 170 °Celsius.
Grease and flour a bowl shaped cake tin (doll cake mold). Set aside.
In a medium sized bowl, beat butter and sugar till soft and creamy for about 2 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Fold in the sifted ingredients into the creamed mixture alternately with milk, starting and ending with flour.
Finally, add in vanilla extract and combine well. Pour batter into the well greased and floured doll cake mold and bake for 55 to 60 minutes until the top of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. The cake is done when a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out without any wet batter.
Remove the cake from oven and let it cool completely before icing and decorating.

Place the cake on a cake board with a slightly smaller diameter than the cake. Crumb coat the cake with a thin layer of buttercream. And then cover it with a layer of rolled white fondant.
Next, add some yellow food color to white fondant. Roll it thin and cover it on the white fondant. Do not press down the yellow fondant at the bottom edges of the cake. In fact, leave it frilly to give it a natural shape of a ball gown. Trim the excess with a pizza cutting wheel and re-adjust the frills. The white fondant underneath should be seen and that is on purpose.

Next, insert the Belle figurine pick in the center of the cake.
Roll some yellow fondant and cover the bodice. Again, using the same color, cut a long strip of fondant, fold it along its long edge and cut it into short strips of about 7 to 8 cm lengths. Arrange these strips in 2 curved layers all around the dress about one third below Belle's waist. And to hide the joints of the strips, attach tiny 5-petal flowers that were cut in 3 different sizes in descending order on the folds. You can use shortening or fondant glue to attach the flowers.

To make the red rose, pinch tiny piece of red fondant and press them into flat circles (about 1 cm in diameter). Arrange the petals to form a tiny rose. Attach the petals together with fondant glue. Poke a tiny floral wire to the bottom of the rose.
For the leave, pinch some green fondant, and press and shape it by hand into a tear drop shape. Mark the veins on the leaf with the needle scribber tool. Attach the leaf to the rose with fondant glue.

Get a cake board that is large enough to hold the cake and the 3D lettering. Cover it with foil. Brush the top with shortening.
Roll some brown fondant thin and place it onto the cake board. Smooth the top and cut of the excess.
Using a ruler as a guide, mark long horizontal lines, each about 2.5 cm wide with the needle tool. And then mark vertical lines in alternate order along each row.
And using the needle tool, further mark short wood grain marks on the edges of each rectangle section and mark tiny holes using a toothpick at the corner of each of the rectangle sections. Overall, the idea was to create wooden plank floor effect.
And then carefully lift the Belle cake (along with the cake board underneath) and place it on the decorated cake board giving enough space to arrange the 3D lettering on the front.

Add some CMC powder in the yellow fondant. Cut out the 3D letters using block letter cutters. Leave the letters to harden for a few hours before attaching them to the cake board with fondant glue.
And finally, roll some red fondant and cut out 5 red flowers with the flower plunger cutter. Make sure the flowers are slightly thick to be able to hold the candles. Attach the flowers onto the cake board (with fondant glue) and poke the candles into the flowers before the fondant dries so that the candles would stand in place.

The amount of cake batter you need for your cake will depend on the size of your cake mold. The recipe measurement provided above is only as a guide based on the cake pan I used to make my doll cake.