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A dual toned Hello Kitty, 3 tier cake with Hello Kitty topper.
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Hello Kitty Cake

This 3 tier Hello Kitty cake design in pink and yellow is decorated with a cute handmade 3D Hello Kitty cake topper. Perfect birthday cake for girls!
Prep Time45 minutes
Cook Time50 minutes
Decorating time5 hours
Total Time6 hours 35 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 1 3 tier cake
Calories: 30468.1kcal
Author: Priya Maha

Equipment

  • Fondant modelling tools
  • Round plunger cutters
  • Alphabet cutters
  • Sugar craft knife
  • Pizza cutter wheel
  • Hello Kitty cookie cutters
  • Oval plunger cutters
  • Toothpick
  • Shortening

Ingredients

6 inch round 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

9 inch round cake

  • 600 g butter
  • 600 g granulated sugar
  • 600 g self-raising flour
  • 10 eggs
  • 150 ml milk
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 ⅔ teaspoon vanilla extract

12 inch round cake

  • 960 g butter
  • 960 g granulated sugar
  • 960 g self-raising flour
  • 16 eggs
  • 240 ml milk
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Frosting and Decoration

Instructions

Baking the Cakes

  • 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 two greased and floured cake pans and bake for 45 to 50 minutes until the top of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. The cakes are done when a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out without any wet batter.
  • Remove cakes from oven and let them cool completely before icing and decorating.
  • Repeat the process for all the cake tiers. Each tier will have 2 layers of cake.

Hello Kitty Cake Topper

  • Start by making the 3D fondant Hello Kitty cake topper first. Add CMC powder to some white fondant and knead well. Shape the Kitty by hand.
  • To make the frills on the dress, cut strips of pink and yellow fondant and use a toothpick to make the frills on the dress. Attach it to the cake topper with shortening. The eyes, nose, and whiskers are also to be shaped by hand. Attach these parts to the face using glue.
  • The Kitty has 2 pairs of legs, one pair on each side. To make the legs, roll 4 small white fondant piece into short logs and attach 2 each on either side of the cake topper.
  • Once the cake topper is completed, leave it aside until the rest of the cake is ready.

Preparing the Cake

  • Once the cakes are all baked and cooled, level each layer and then sandwiched them with buttercream.
  • Next, cover each tier separately with fondant before stacking them together. Before covering each tier with fondant, mark a line on the crumb coated cakes right at the midpoint. This is to guide you in making sure the yellow and pink fondant covering on each tier is balanced and is of the same size on both sides.
  • To get the half pink and half yellow fondant covering on each tier, simply rolled some pink fondant and used it to cover half of the cake, using the line marked earlier as a guide.
  • Repeat the process with the yellow fondant. In doing this, let the fondant pieces overlap slightly at the line marking. Once both the colors are on the cake, use a pizza cutting tool to gently cut across the fondant layers.
  • Once cut, remove the excess yellow fondant and then lift the yellow fondant and remove the excess pink fondant underneath.
  • And then use some fondant glue to dampen the yellow and pink fondant joints and gently smoothen them to ensure they stick together and there is no gap in between.
  • Repeat the process for the remaining 2 cake tiers before stacking all 3 tiers together. In stacking the cakes, make sure that the pink and yellow colors are all aligned.

Hello Kitty Face Decoration on the Sides of the Cake

  • To start off the rest of the decoration the the Hello Kitty themed cake, add Hello Kitty face fondant cut outs on the sides of the cake. The cutouts should be in 3 different sizes, with the largest on the bottom tier and the smallest on the topmost tier. You can use cookie cutters to cut out the fondant faces or you can draw out a paper template and use it as a guide to cut them out of fondant.
  • The eyes, nose, and whiskers can be shaped by hand. Attach these to the faces with fondant glue. Finally, make the bow on Kitty using the teardrop plunger cutters and round plunger cutters. Attach these to Kitty with shortening too.
  • It is easier to attach all the facial features for on the face before attaching them to the sides of the cake.

The White Polka Dots

  • Next are the white polka dots. These are to be cut in 3 different sizes, starting with the largest for the bottom tier and smallest for the top tier. Cut these using the round plunger cutter set and attach them to the cake with shortening.

The Name Cubes and the Lettering

  • Cut the cubes out of fondant in pink, deep pink, yellow, and orange colors. For the letters, roll out some white gum paste thin. Cut them using the FMM block letters cutters. Attach the letters to the cubes using shortening and the cubes to the cake with fondant glue.

Adding the Cake Topper

  • Once the rest of the decoration in completed, attached the Hello Kitty cake topper onto the top tier with fondant glue.

Nutrition

Calories: 30468.1kcal | Carbohydrates: 3346.4g | Protein: 440g | Fat: 1744.9g | Saturated Fat: 1044.8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 99.8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 460.8g | Trans Fat: 63.5g | Cholesterol: 9425.2mg | Sodium: 19776.8mg | Potassium: 5139.3mg | Fiber: 46.1g | Sugar: 1954.9g | Vitamin A: 56424.4IU | Calcium: 3110mg | Iron: 45.1mg