Two Tier Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake

5 from 2 votes

This 2 tier Minnie Mouse birthday cake in pink, black and white makes an excellent birthday cake design. Learn how to make the cake here!

Prep Time45

Cook Time2 2

Decorating time3

Total Time2 5 45

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: Two tier cake ( 7 inches and 10 inches round)

Calories: 17135.5kcal

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.

Follow the tutorial here on how to the fondant bow. The tutorial is for making a large bow and is without the polka dots. For the polka dots, use the smallest cutter in the round plunger cutter set and cut out tiny dots of pink fondant. Attach these to the bow once the bow is complete.
Make the smaller fondant bows in a similar manner as the large one, but you need not make any folds for the centers. For the polka dots, use the fine tipped cake decorating brush, dip the tip into white gel based food color (undiluted) to mark random tiny white dots on the bows.

Cut the ears out in black fondant (that has been added CMC) using a large round cutter and attach a long wooden skewer into each. Let these set and harden completely before putting them up on the cake.

Once the cakes are baked and have cooled down, level the tops and fill each tier with buttercream. Crumb coat each tier and cover them separately with fondant. Cover the top tier with pink fondant and the bottom tier with white fondant.
Next, stack them and add the borders. To make the borders, cut out a long thin strip of black fondant. And then attach it to the cake and add the white polka dots. Cut the polka dots in white fondant, with the smallest cutter of the round plunger cutter set.

Next to go on the Minnie Mouse birthday cake are the birthday girl's name and age number plaques.
Use a plaque cutter for these and attach the letters and numbers to them before placing them on the cake. For the name, I used Clikstix Groovy alphabet cutter. For the number, I used a different cutter which I purchased from a local cake decorating supplies shop.
Once the plaques are on the cake, add a thin black border for both. The border can be piped using the fondant extruder tool that is fitted with a small round disc.

Next decoration for the birthday cake is the tiny Minnie Mouse faces all around the second tier. You can cut these using round cutters.
Use a medium cutter for the face and a slightly smaller one for the ears. And then add the mini bows to each face. Attach the bows with fondant glue so that they are held securely in place on the cake.

Once the bows are done, add the white polka dots on the top tier. Complete the cake decoration by poking Minnie’s large ears on the top tier and add the large bow in front of them. Use fondant glue for the bow so that it would stay in place securely.