The birthday girl's mummy liked the Minnie Mouse cake I did for my daughter's birthday so she asked me to recreate the cake for her daughter's school birthday celebration, of course with her own daughter's name on it this time.
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| Minnie Mouse Cake |
The cake is 4 layers of vanilla cake, with each layer dyed a different shade of pink, in ombré style. The filling is a super yummy vanilla bean crème Mousseline, which is made by whipping equal parts of pastry cream and butter together. Mmm so rich. So yummy.
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| vanilla cake with vanilla bean crème Mousseline filling |
The cake is decorated with a layer of vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream, accented by pink fondant polka dots and the birthday girl's name in fancy fondant lettering. The cake is topped with a pair of Minnie ears and Minnie's classic pink bow with white polka dots on it. I used BBQ skewers to help the ears stand upright, making sure to let fondant dry completely before standing them up on the cake.
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| pink fondant bow with white polka dots |
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| fancy fondant lettering |
For an added level of girliness, there are buttercream ruffles bordering the bottom of the cake, piped on using piping tip number 104.
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| ruffles up close |
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| view from the back |
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| bird's eye view |
As giveaways for the the birthday girl's classmates, I baked up some matching Minnie mouse cookies, decorated with fondant and some royal icing polka dots. As with these cookies, I cut the pink and black parts out of fondant using a Mickey mouse cookie cutter, and then spliced the parts together with a little bit of water. I didn't want to layer the pink fondant on top of the black fondant cut-out because then it would just be too sweet from too many layers of fondant. For Minnie's bow, I used two hearts, placed point to point, with tiny royal dots on them too.
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| Minnie Mouse cookies |
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| raised royal icing dots |
The cookies were individually wrapped in cellophane bags, tied off with a twisty-tie and a custom-designed matching Minnie Mouse label. Wishing birthday girl Envies a mouse-tastic 7th birthday!
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| Minnie cookie giveaways |
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