Coolest Minnie Mouse Cake 26

by Kerry K.
(Morinville, AB Canada)

Homemade Minnie Mouse Cake

My daughter loves Minnie Mouse and this is the Minnie Mouse cake she wanted.

I used 2 9x13" cakes and butt them up to each other. I drew a picture of Minnie on butcher wrap then I cut it out. I always ice my cakes with a crumb layer while they are frozen then I pop them back in the freezer to harden up the crumb layer so I can place the cut out design on the cake and then trace around it with a toothpick just to give me a nice clean outline of the design.

You can freehand the outline, but I like to do it this way just to be sure I am spacing it properly. Once you have the outline just pull away the design and go over it with your icing. The details are a lot easier to add in once you have your outline. I like to use different tips for different features.

I wanted Minnie's ears to be less textured, but I did not want to use fondant so I just piped them in with little dots. For the rest I used the star tip.

I use the paste food coloring to get vibrant colors and I always make chocolate icing with cocoa before coloring with the black paste so I am not trying to turn white in to black.