Fairy Tale Princesses Cake

This post is neither supported nor affiliated with the Disney Corporation. It fulfills the requirements to be user generated content. 

Being the mother of two girls, we own every possible princess movie ever made. I'm convinced. So, I decided I wanted to make a princess cake. But why stop at one? Let's do four princesses. I decided to make what I would consider the classic princesses: Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast.

The first thing that I needed to do, was make the toppers and allow them to dry completely before using them. I made an apple and a red bow for Snow White. I made a red rose for Beauty and the Beast. 

 I made a crown for Sleeping Beauty and a glass slipper for Cinderella. The crown I painted with gold luster dust mixed with alcohol after it had dried completely. The glass slipper, I coated with white sanding sugar.
 Then I frosted my six-inch round chocolate cake with cookie butter buttercream. I used my spatula to mark the cake into fourths, including down the sides.
 On the bottom of the side of one of the fourths, I added a small, white ruffle.
 On the middle of the side of another fourth, I added a band of red fondant.
 So first, I wanted to show you why. The quarter with the ruffles, I covered with yellow fondant, trimming it above the ruffles, so they would show.
 The quarter with the red, I covered in dark blue fondant, tucking in the bottom, and cutting a slit in the blue fondant in a few spots to show the red between.
 Then I covered another fourth in light blue fondant.
 And another fourth with dark pink fondant, letting the bottom fall with motion to look like fabric.
 You can see that the cake is clearly split into fourths.
 Then I made some of the dress embellishments. I used yellow fondant, placing it over two paintbrushes and a straw to create the ripples in the swag.
 Then I trimmed it, tucked the edges under, and stuck it onto the yellow quarter with edible glue to create two swags.
Then, I cut a piece of light blue fondant into almost a bow shape, narrower in the middle than the outsides. I tucked the sides under and stuck the whole thing onto the middle of the light blue quarter with edible glue. It was a little lopsided, but at this point, the best I could do.
Then I cut a piece of pink fondant into triangular lines and stuck it on the pink quarter with edible glue.
Lastly, I placed my toppers onto the appropriate quarter. The crown on the pink quarter.
 The glass slipper on the light blue quarter.
 The apple and red bow on the dark blue quarter.
 And the red rose on the yellow quarter.
 I think this was a really fun cake. Maybe a little bit more work than usual, but well worth it for the effect.

 Pure magic.
 Enchanting.

To watch the whole process on our YouTube channel, click here: https://youtu.be/D57V5Bh853c
Um das ganze Prozess auf unsere YouTube Sendung zu schauen, klickt hier: https://youtu.be/d1wsULaBy1c

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dress up a Sheet Cake: White on White Wedding Cake

Image
I've been thinking about all the things that have been cancelled because of Covid19 and I think the saddest is the weddings. So much expense, planning, excitement... gone. Now, I know most of you who had to reschedule your wedding will eventually have them. But I don't know how much money you would have lost because of the cancellation of your first planned wedding. So, I thought some of you might need to save money on your future wedding. So, I thought I would share with you a way you could make your own wedding cake out of a regular, plain sheet cake. I started out with a frosted sheet cake. You can frost it yourself or buy it frosted.  Then I thought I would use all of these tips, but I only ended up using the small round tip and the medium star tip. The petal tip and leaf tip weren't needed for this design.  Using a skewer, I traced two interlocking hearts as well as the monograms of the couple. In this case, T and C.  Then I traced over the letters with th
Read more

Dairy-Free Swiss Meringue Buttercream

Image
After going through the effort of making my vanilla cake gluten free, dairy free and soy free, I needed a dairy free frosting. American buttercream is easy to make dairy free. But the family I'm making the cake for prefers Swiss meringue buttercream. I googled how to make dairy free Swiss meringue buttercream, and basically every blog I found said that it wasn't possible. They all said you have to use butter. I am not willing to accept that answer. So, I decided to experiment a bit until I found a ratio that works. So, first off, here's the recipe: Dairy-free Swiss Meringue Buttercream: 7 egg whites 2 cups sugar 1 1/2 cups dairy-free margarine 1/2 cup shortening pinch of salt 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 1 tsp butter vanilla flavoring (optional, if omitting, double amount of vanilla flavoring)  I'm using a stand mixer today with a whisk attachment.  I first whisk the egg whites, sugar and vanilla sugar, if using vanilla sugar. Then I h
Read more

Tutorial: How to Make a 2D Simba Cake Topper

Image
 I tried to make this character 3D. I really did. But it was so terrible I just couldn't bring myself to use it.  I eventually decided to try making a 2D figure. Then I could use a template. So first, here's the image I used: First, I cut out a yellow circle to use as a background. Then I added some brown to yellow fondant and rolled it out. I cut around the template and cut out the paws. Then I added the paws cut out of white fondant. Then I used a pointed scuplting tool to press the lines of the template into the fondant. Then, removing the template, I deepened the lines to make them more visible. I added a white muzzle and a pink nose. I painted some brown food coloring mixed with alcohol into the shadows of the face and ears. Finally, I added some undiluted black food coloring to the ears, eyebrows and eyes. How adorable is this? And so clearly Simba. This is a great method for those who can't accurately draw the characters themselves. In other words, perfect for me. Wa
Read more