Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake

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This Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake is a fondant cake with 3D Mickey Mouse face cake as the topper. Perfect 1st birthday cake for both girls and boys!

Prep Time30

Cook Time50

Decorating time3

Total Time4 20

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: Two tier cake (8 inches bottom tier)

Calories: 9784.4kcal

Preheat oven to 170 °Celsius.
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 well greased and floured cake pans (two 8 inches round pans and one bowl shaped, heatproof bowl. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until the top of the cakes spring back when lightly pressed. The cakes are done when a skewer inserted in the center of the cakes comes out without any wet batter.
Remove cakes from oven and let them cool completely before icing and decorating.
Once the cakes are baked and have completely cooled down to room temperature, level and sandwich the 8 inches cake layers with buttercream. And then crumb coat both the 8 inch round cake as well as the bowl shaped cake.
Cover the bottom layer 8 inch round cake with white fondant and set it aside while decorating the ‘Mickey Mouse face’ cake.

For the 3D Mickey Mouse face cake, cover the dome-shaped cake in black fondant. Next, draw the light brown part of Mickey Mouse’s face on a parchment paper and used it as a template to cut out the light brown portion of the face in brown fondant. Also draw Mickey’s eyes, nose and mouth on a paper and use it as a template to cut these features in black and white accordingly.
Attach the eyes, nose, mouth, and eyebrows on the cut out light brown fondant and then, attach the light brown section of the face onto the head. It is easier to add the facial features this way rather than putting them directly on the cake.

Mickey's ears are cut entirely in black fondant. Add some CMC to it. Roll it to about 3mm thick and cut out the ears with a round cutter.
Attach a skewer to each of the ear cut outs. Brush the skewers with some glue before poking them into the fondant. Let the fondant ears rest until they have hardened so that they don’t break or tear off from the wooden skewers when placed on the birthday cake.

While waiting for Mickey Mouse’s ears to set, decorate the bottom layer of the cake (the Clubhouse design).
Start with the Clubhouse image. Cut the components of the Clubhouse using the round cutters and sugarcraft knife and attach them to the cake with glue.
And then add tiny stars in red, blue, and yellow on one side of the cake. Use the star plunger cutter to cut out the stars in fondant. While on the other side, cut out rings (using the round cutters) and attach them to the cake.
For the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake border, pinch red, white, black, blue, and yellow fondant in equal sizes. Form them into round balls and attach them all around the cake. In attaching these balls, make sure the colors match the deco on the sides of the cake.
Next, add the Mickey Mouse face cake on the clubhouse cake tier. Since the ‘face’ is quite big, support its weight on the bottom tier cake with bubble tea straws (similar to making tiered cakes). Attach the fondant ears.

Cut the letters for the name using the Clikstix alphabet cutters in blue fondant. Add the birthday boy or birthday girl’s name on the cake. The message “Our baby turns 1”, on the other hand, can be added on the cake board.
For final touches, add a long strip of black fondant for the border for Mickey face cake. Only attach it to the black portion of the cake. There is no need for any border to the front side of Mickey’s face.