Coolest Mini Mouse Birthday Cake 39

by Matthew G.
(Red Hook, NY)

Homemade Mini Mouse Birthday Cake

I modeled this Mini Mouse Birthday Cake after another cake on this site. The other woman used one 8" pan for the face and two 4" pans for the ears. I couldn't find a 4" pan anywhere, so I cut two 4" circles out of one 8" cake. I actually baked 4 8" cakes. Two for the face, and made four 4" circles for the ears so that I could make it a layer cake with chocolate pudding in the middle.

I also cut part of the ears so they fit more snug against the face. For the skin tone icing on the face I used peach dye bought at Michael's and added yellow to make it more skin tone. As per the other mini mouse cake maker on this site, I used the tubes of decorator icing for the black, as I'm told it's almost impossible to make black icing (I had to buy 3).

The biggest problem I ran into was that the icing wouldn't stick to the cut edges of the ears. To solve this problem, I covered both ears in fondant and iced over it. The facial features and the bow are made out of fondant as well.

Good Luck!