Frozen Cake

Frozen really had become "here to stay" party theme, despite all its musings of "Let it Go." And while it's easy to go over-the-top and elaborate with a Frozen-themed party (think silvery, glittery and snowflake-y ice magic), it's also a theme that can be done in a simple way: blue, white and a sprinkling of snowflakes. 

Blue Ombré Frozen Cake

That's precisely what the birthday girl's mummy wanted with this cake, straight-up buttercream rosettes, with a touch of Frozen. The cake itself is 3 layers of the ever-popular Devil's food cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache, and frosted with vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream. Most of my cakes are at least 4" tall, so I always advise that the cake be cut like a grid, instead of large wedges. Otherwise it would be impossible to slice the cake into 35 wedges!

The cake is frosted in blue and white SMBC. We had decided on one shade of blue and white, and the birthday message written in buttercream on the cake board, but I was in a good mood and decided to add another shade of blue and a fondant message plaque just for fun. 

I have to point again just how yellow our butter is here in Asia. I just can't get the buttercream to be a nice bright white without adding heaps of white food colouring to it. I seriously added an entire 0.75 oz bottle of Americolour bright white and a couple of teaspoons of SugarFlair Superwhite powdered food colouring into the buttercream and it still had a yellowish tinge to it. 

a touch of snowflake

Anyway, the buttercream rosettes were piped on using a 1M piping nozzle. I sprinkled the cake with silver dragees in two sizes, and added fondant snowflakes to give it that Frozen touch. This is the 3rd set of snowflake plunger cutters that I've gone through cuz the spring mechanism just keeps falling out! The thing about made in China products...cheap but they don't last.

all those blue buttercream rosettes

Here's the lovely birthday girl, all dressed up as Queen Elsa, with long blonde braid and all! Thanks to her mummy for sharing the pics. Happy birthday to the lovely Aleena!

Happy 4th Birthday, Aleena!