Minnie Mouse Cake
Here's a cute purple Minnie Mouse cake for a 1st year birthday. Learn how to make this Minnie themed fondant cake with my easy guide!
Servings: 1 Seven inches round cake
Calories: 5713.1kcal
Equipment
- Flower wire and lollipop sticks
- Butterfly cutters and flower cutters
- Clixstix Alphabet Cutters
- Shortening
- Fondant glue
Ingredients
Cake
- 360 g self-raising flour
- 360 g granulated sugar
- 360 g butter
- 6 eggs
- 90 ml milk
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting and Decoration
- Buttercream
- Fondant
- Gum Paste
Instructions
Making the fondant bow for Minnie Mouse head
- Make the Minnie Mouse cake topper and the bows in advance. These need time to set and therefore are best made 2 days in advance. Once dry and set, attach Minnie's bow to her head. Leave it lying flat so that it could get attached securely to the topper.
- The other bow needs to wait until the rest of the cake decoration is completed. Hence simply leave it aside after making, until ready for use.
Minnie Mouse head cake topper
- Draw Minnie Mouse face on a piece of paper. Alternative, download an image from the internet and resize it to fit the cake.
- Cut the paper template and place in on a piece of styrofoam block which is about 1cm thick. To hold the template in place, use a pin or tape.
- Cut the styrofoam (with a styrofoam cutter) following the outline of the paper template.
- Once cut, remove the paper template.
- Next, roll black fondant thin and used the paper template to make 2 Minnie Mouse head cutouts. Attach both on each side of the styrofoam. Use fondant glue to attach the pieces.
- For the sides of the styrofoam, cut out a long fondant strip. The width of the strip should be the same as the thickness of the styrofoam topper. Attach it all around the sides with glue and smooth the edges.
- For the face features, place the paper template on thinly rolled ivory fondant and cut it out. Repeat the same process for all the facial features.
- Finally, attach the purple bow on her head. Let the topper lie flat to allow the bow to dry and secure in place.
The polka dots on the bow
- To make the polka dots design on the bows, cut out the gum paste for the bow. And then attach the purple polka dots with fondant glue before shaping the bow. Follow the tutorial here to learn how to make the bow. Just increase the width of each loop when cutting the rolled gum paste to increase the size of the bow.
Assembling the purple Minnie Mouse themed cake
- The next step for the purple Minnie Mouse cake is the flowers and the butterflies. Use the butterfly and flower cutters to make these and attach them to floral wires. Make these in both purple and white.
Assembling the cake
- Once the cake layers are baked and have cooled down completely, level the tops. Fill the cake layers with buttercream, stack and crumb coat them with a thin layer of buttercream.
- Cover the cake with purple fondant.
- For the lettering, cut them out of gum paste with the alphabet cutters and attach to the cake board with shortening.
- To attach the Minnie Mouse topper to the cake, insert 2 wires to the bottom of Minnie's face and then insert the wires into 2 lollipop sticks. Poke the topper with lollipop sticks into the cake. The lollipop sticks help prevent direct contact of the wire with the cake.
- After Minnie Mouse's face topper, attach the purple and white flowers and butterflies to the cake, also with lollipop sticks.
- Next, cut out white polka dots and attach them all over the cake in random order.
- Once the polka dots are done, attach a thin rolled strip of purple border for the cake.
- And then attach the side gum paste bow ribbons before putting on the bow. You may need to support the bow by holding it in place while waiting for the glue to dry. You can do this by tying a ribbon gently around the cake and the bow.