Crissa's Cake Corner!: Mickey Mouse Cookies, Cupcakes, Macarons & Cakes

Mickey birthday parties have been really popular this month! I got to make a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake, Mickey cookies, mini cupcakes, macarons and a smash cake for a little boy celebrating his first birthday with a Mickey Mouse theme!

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake

The cake was two tiers of yummy Devil's Food Cake, filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache. That's a crowd favourite! The main focus of the cake is really the big Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. To make such a big fondant Mickey head, I used a couple sizes of circle cutters, but didn't press all the way, so that there is a seamless join between the ears and the head.

fondant details on the cake

This guy had to be left to dry overnight until it was stiff enough to stand up without drooping. If you try and stick it to the cake right after you cut it, it'll just flop over! The trick to get it to dry with a curve, is just to wrap the side of the same pan that you baked the bottom tier in, with some parchment paper, and then lay the fondant Mickey head on top! It'll dry with the same curvature as the bottom tier of your cake, and will fit perfectly, attached onto the side of the cake with a little bit of royal icing.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse windows

The rest of the cake was decorated simply, with a few circle cut outs, daisy flowers and hand-cut clouds. (I really should invest in cloud-shaped cutters with the all the clouds I use on my cakes!) I used my favourite textured roller to give the cake board and the hand-cut grass some nice lines. Makes it look less plain and a little more fancy.

love the texture on the grass

Now this cake had a very unique cake topper, as requested by the birthday boy's mummy. It's a big yellow Toodles-type circular panel, with lots of colourful elements, and of course, the birthday boy's name! It's a pretty heavy topper, and there are three BBQ sticks running through to hold it upright on the cake.

special Toodles-style cake topper

The other cool thing about this cake is that I got to make a hot air balloon! I was toying around with making a ball out of cereal treats and then covering that in fondant for the balloon part. But in the end I "got lazy" and just cut out two large fondant circles, draped each half over a plastic ball and let them dry, and then royal-icing stuck the two halves together to make a ball! Hahaha. The blue decor around the balloon "cleverly" hides the seam.

like the fondant hot air balloon?

The poles on the hot air balloon are stripey paper straws, and the basket is made out of fondant. I poked 4 circles the same size as the straws in bottom half of the balloon before it fully dried so that the straws can be inserted afterwards. There is a BBQ skewer poking up from each corner of the blue basket, for the paper straws to sit on. The hot air-balloon was meant to be up on top of the cake as well, but it was obstructing the birthday boy's name, so it was moved down to "ground level". Toy figurines of Mickey and his friends were placed all around to finish the cake.

Mickey-themed smash cake

The small 5" smash cake was decorated in red vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream, with black fondant ears and cute little fondant Mickey feet. I can't believe I forgot to put the buttons on!! And do you spot something funny with the "A" on top of the cake? That's because between the car and the venue, the fondant A mysteriously disappeared. Sigh. Must've dropped it while going up the escalator or something! One very important feedback is the red buttercream is very very very messy. This stuff gets EVERYWHERE and STAINS. The cake looks nice, in red-yellow-black Mickey colours, but when a one-year old baby is given the green light to smash the cake to his heart's content and there is no soapy washcloth to clean up the baby after or a change of clothes (especially for the mummy, haaaa!!) one has to think twice about red buttercream. Note to self: advise people about red buttercream!!

red velvet mini cuppies

So yep, these mini red velvet cupcakes were also decorated in the same red buttercream. But nobody is gonna smash them all over their clothes ;) The ears are brown m&m's and the buttons are yellow m&m minis.

fondant Mickey sugar cookies

I also got to make more Mickey cookies, made in the same way as these cookies. And, last but not least, some red, black and yellow macarons filled with dark chocolate ganache. Lots and lots of food colouring (prob an enitre 2oz container of food gel) is needed to get the macarons a true red or a dark enough black. But, for a Mickey-theme, guess there's no choice but to have these colours!

dark choc macarons in Mickey colours

All the desserts and cakes went on this fabulous Mickey Mouse-themed dessert table, put together by the birthday boy's mummy! She DIY'd the entire thing and it came out super-D-duper! She had a few family members and friends helping to set up the dessert table and the lunch buffet as well, and even a helium tank on site to blow up balloons! Gotta hand it to the birthday boy's super mummy for putting together such an awesome party!