Coolest Minnie Mouse Cake 13

by Leora D.
(Castle Rock, CO)

Minnie Mouse Cake

We had a joint party for my daughter and her best friend's 3rd birthday. (Their birthdays are 4 days apart.) There wasn't a whole theme to the party but the friend wanted a Minnie Mouse cake. It's hard to come by good ideas for Minnie Mouse and I'm no artist when it comes to working with icing so I created this idea.

I used a 10" round and two 3" rounds, Wilton's "red red" and "black" icing colors. (I had heard that the "red" can have a funny taste.) How I cut the three pieces to fit together, I used the empty 3" round tins (I have 2 of them) upside-down. Place them where you'd like and then press it gently into the 10" cake--just enough to make an impression and then you can cut the shape out and fit the "ear" cakes in place.

I piped the icing on with a tip, but not being any kind of baker, I have no idea what tip or how to describe correctly what I did. I dabbed (dotted?) the icing on the top and sided and then made a black outline to define the shape better.

The polka dots are marshmallows cut into thirds. I used only the top and bottom thirds but seemed to have no trouble finding someone to eat the middle thirds.