Here are some pictures of the Minnie Mouse cakes. Learn how I made this Minnie Mouse cake here.
Minnie Mouse Fondant Heads and Ears
Minnie Mouse Fondant Head
Stacked Minnie Mouse Cake
Minnie Mouse Smash Cake for 1st Birthday
Cakes to Make the Minnie Mouse Cake
Tiered Minnie Mouse Cake
Wait! Before you leave, do you want to know how to make a Minnie Mouse Cake? Click here on my Minnie Mouse cake category to learn how to make one.
Would you rather have a Minnie Mouse cake pan instead of making a Minnie Mouse cake?
You can buy a Wilton Minnie Mouse Cake PanUnfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be available anymore. If you REALLY want a Minnie cake pan, it seems like your only avenues are to look on eBay, Craigslist, or keep stalking Amazon and hope it comes back in from a seller. Wilton does not make this pan anymore.
However, there are some alternatives. What you could do is buy Wilton Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake Pan
You could also buy a Minnie Mouse Edible Image Cake Topper
You can also purchase the Minnie Mouse Edible Icing Cake Topper at Birthday Express.
Another option is to simply make a round, square, or rectangular cake and decorate with Minnie Mouse figurines. Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Minnie Icing Decorations and a Minnie Mouse cake topper seen here would be cute.
Birthday Express has an excellent selection of birthday party supplies also.
Save 10% on $65 or more at BirthdayExpress.com using coupon code birthday12. Get free shipping on orders of $75 or more using coupon code freeship12. See current Birthday Express coupon codes here.
Usually parents make or buy a smash cake for their child’s first birthday. I made my daughter a Minnie Mouse smash cake for her 1st birthday party. Here is how you make a Minnie Mouse smash cake:
Minnie Mouse Smash Cake
The Smashed Minnie Mouse Smash Cake
When I was trying to figure out how to make the Minnie Mouse cake, I had no idea the Minnie Mouse heads were made out of fondant. You can learn how to make fondant from scratch here. To make the Minnie Mouse heads, all I did was buy round cookie cutters and cut out three circles. I purchased these: Ateco 5357 11 Piece Plain Round Cutter Set
I stuck the two smaller round circles on top of the larger circle (Minnie’s head). The bows were made out of a fondant ejector: Wilton Floral Garland Cutter/Ejector Set
Learn how to make black fondant here.
See all the Minnie Mouse cake pictures here.
Thanks for dropping by! If you want to learn how to make a Minnie Mouse cake, click here.
The Minnie Mouse cake shown below was my daughter’s 1st cake to serve on her actual birthday during the week. It was also my first attempt at ever making a decorated cake! There are many imperfections, but I am still proud of myself. Think of the cake below as practice. I made another cake for the day of her party, which is shown above.
You can see all the pictures from the 2nd two tier Minnie Mouse cake here.
CakeDecoratingMom.com
CakeDecoratingMom.com
This website was created because of the desire to make my daughter’s 1st birthday cake. So, why would I make a website for that reason? Well, part of it was to keep me accountable. It also gave me a place to share with everyone that YOU can make a cake with fondant too with NO knowledge on how to decorate a cake.
My journey started a little over a month ago. I took several Minnie Mouse cake pictures from Google images into a couple of bakeries to see how much the starting cost would be. I was quoted well over $150. Many just wanted $100 for two 9 inch cakes stacked on top of each other with trim work (no fondant). They told me that a cake with fondant would automatically make the price much steeper. The baker told me she would talk to her supervisor to see how much it would be to make an entire cake, including Minnie Mouse heads, out of buttercream instead. I never heard back from them even after I completed a form with all my information detailing what I needed. Instead of worrying about spending the money that I probably shouldn’t spend to let someone else make my daughter’s cake, I decided I would teach myself. That is when my journey began.
When my husband went out of town for a week, I decided to take my alone time to figure out how to decorate a cake. I REALLY wanted to know how to make the Minnie Mouse heads. Now remember, I had NO clue how to decorate a cake. I had no idea what fondant was. I didn’t know how to use decorating bags. I knew NOTHING. Zilch. I scoured the internet trying to figure out what the Minnie Mouse heads were made out of. I knew that it did not look like buttercream. I finally found out on a blog somewhere that the Minnie Mouse heads were made out of fondant (THANK YOU to the blogger who actually wrote that).
Well, after learning they were made out of fondant, I had to learn how the Minnie Mouse heads were made. I didn’t know if there was a special Minnie Mouse cutter or what. I found a Mickey Mouse Icon Cookie Cutter (Walt Disney World Exclusive)
online, but I felt that was bigger than I needed. It might be better sized for a sheet cake (maybe, not sure). Anyways, thanks to another blogger, I found out the Minnie Mouse heads were made out of 3 round circles. Duh. Why didn’t I think of that? Then I had to learn how to make fondant. I wanted to purchase Satin Ice
I found several recipes online, most made out of marshmallows. After experimenting with the fondant, I found a fondant recipe that worked for me. I heard marshmallow fondant is tastier than regular fondant, so that is why I chose it. Check out the fondant recipe I used. THIS video also helped me. It is my favorite how to video on making fondant. The important thing that helped me is to not over analyze how much confectioners sugar or Crisco or marshmallows you need. It really is an art. It takes practice and a good sense of how dry or moist the fondant is. Just add more of what you need.
Check out my how to make a Minnie Mouse cake tutorial here.
So check out my pictures below! I did this with my husband and we had never decorated a cake (except the previous practice Minnie Mouse cake). If WE can do it, YOU can do it!!
Minnie Mouse Cake
This post shows you how I made my daughter’s Minnie Mouse cake. It really is aimed for beginners like me who has never decorated a cake before. I will walk you through what I did to make this:
Minnie Mouse Cake
You will definitely want to read the post thoroughly before you start!
*I updated this post on March 16, 2012, so all links should be working properly now.
CAKE SUPPLIES NEEDED
Two 10 inch cake pans and two 8 inch cake pans (or 9 inch and 6 or 7 inch). I have purchased the Wilton cake pans. Here are some options: Two 9-Inch Round Cake Set
Icing Spatula like the Wilton 13 Inch Angled Spatula With Black Handle
Viva paper towels to smooth the buttercream
Wilton Disposable 12 Inch Decorating Bags and decorating tips
Icing Gel- click Wilton 601-5580 1/2-Ounce Certified-Kosher Icing Colors to see what I am talking about because it is not food coloring. I use the pink from this Wilton gel set: Wilton Pastel 4-Piece Icing Color Set
Dowels for cake. Dowels are needed to support a tiered cake. We used wooden dowels, but my husband recommends us using the cardboard dowels next time. See dowels here.
Cake cardboard circles: this is for the top cake to sit on.
Minnie and/or Minnie Mouse figurine (which I purchased from Party City). Here is an entire set of Minnie Mouse friends: Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Figure Play Set.
MAKE MICKEY OR MINNIE MOUSE FONDANT
1. Make the fondant ahead of time. You can learn how to make marshmallow fondant on this website. To make the fondant black, I substituted half the confectioners sugar with cocoa and added black Wilton gel coloring that you can find from this Wilton box.
2. It is recommended to let the fondant sit overnight. I don’t know why this is recommended, but I have read it several times (sorry for the unsupported advice). Make sure you wrap the fondant in saran wrap and cover it in a Tupperware container sealed tightly. Do not refrigerate.
3. Roll the marshmallow fondant out with a rolling pin. It might be helpful to put Crisco on your hands to work with the fondant before rolling it out. I found that the Minnie Mouse heads worked best if the fondant was about 1/8 inch thin. We initially had fondant that was about 1/4 inch thick. To ME, it was too thick and was very heavy on the cake. We used 3 round cookie cutters to make 2 ears and a head or you can find a larger Mickey/Minnie cookie cutter Mickey Mouse Icon Cookie Cutter (Walt Disney World Exclusive)
4. To make the bows, we added pink food gel to the fondant mixture. We used the pink from Wilton 601-5580 1/2-Ounce Certified-Kosher Icing Colors, Set of 12
5. I gently placed the bows on the Minnie Mouse heads and ears. You can use buttercream or vanilla extract to help it stick if you choose to. Again, see the Minnie Mouse fondant head post.
6. Store Minnie or Mickey Mouse fondant cutouts in a pyrex container or tupperware. I did place the fondant cutouts on top of wax paper so I could remove them from the container easily.
MAKE CAKE
1. Pick the recipe you want. I used a chocolate recipe from All Recipes. You can also use a cake box mix if you would like. I noticed many recipes are for 9 inch cake pans. You will probably triple the recipe for a tiered cake. Just make sure you have enough ingredients before you start.
2. Cook Cake.
3. Cool cake for TEN minutes. Flip cake onto cooling rack. I have tested this every time. 10 minutes seems like the magic number. If you wait to long, the cake can sweat and you won’t be able to remove the cake with ease.
MAKE BUTTERCREAM
I highly recommend the recipe below. I found this recipe in a Wilton book. I also saw it on All Recipes, but no credit was given to Wilton for some reason. You will need to quadruple the recipe to cover the cake, so here is the new calculated buttercream recipe:
2 cups shortening
2 cups of softened butter
4 teaspoons of clear vanilla extract
16 cups of confectioners sugar
8 tablespoons of milk
Some of the reviewers on All Recipes said they preferred using all butter instead of shortening. However, all the reviews who claimed to be cake decorators said the recipe needed shortening for decorating. I believe them. I left the shortening in the recipe.
PUT TOGETHER THE CAKE
1. Spread a layer of buttercream between the 2 10 inch layer cakes
2. Stack layers on top of each other
3. Insert dowels (check back for the how to video I will post)
4. Crumbcoat the cake (check back for the how to video I will post)
5. Do steps 1-4 to the 8 inch cakes. Make sure you put the 8 inch cakes on top of a circle cake board.
6. After the crumbcoat has set, ice the cakes. Ice the cakes before you stack the 8 inch cakes on top of the 10 inch cakes.
7. Let icing crust a bit.
8. Use Viva paper towels to smooth out buttercream to give it the fondant look.
9. Place 8 inch cakes with cardboard on top of 10 inch cakes.
DECORATE THE CAKE
This is fairly straightforward. Place fondant where you want to on the cake. Using buttercream or vanilla extract to stick the fondant to the cake.
Using your decorators bag and tips, you will want to make a border on the cake.
*I will update this post with videos I used that helped ME learn how to stack and decorate!
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Minnie Mouse Cake
My daughter’s FIRST birthday has come and gone. I usually save a scrap of everything from my children’s birthdays so I can put it in the scrapbook. Out of the wrapping paper, the decorations, and cards- I was attached most to the cake! After all the work my husband and I put into it, we were sad to throw away what was left over.
It sat on the counter for a couple of days and then we gave in to throwing it away. Seriously. It feels weird admitting that we were attached to a cake for a few days, but I guess it happens to all of us on our first cake making experience? Check out the Minnie Mouse cake pictures here. My son has declared he wants a firetruck birthday cake since mommy can decorate a cake now, haha.
My daughter’s first birthday cake will be a Minnie Mouse cake. If you Google Minnie Mouse birthday cakes, you will see tons of beautiful 1st birthday cakes. Because I have decided to make the cake myself, I had to learn how to make marshmallow fondant. The Mickey or Minnie Mouse heads are made out of fondant. This is my first pathetic attempt to make Minnie’s head; however, it is not that bad. I noticed I need to make the right ear more round. Sorry, Minnie!
To learn how I made the fondant used in this recipe, please click Marshmallow Fondant Recipe.
Minine Mouse Fondant
Minnie Mouse Ears and Heads
My FIRST cake decorating experience: The Minnie Mouse Cake
This post originally showed up on my personal blog; however, in light of my desire to bake and decorate all cake decorating posts will now be featured on this website, Cake Decorating Mom.
Last December I made a tiered Minnie Mouse cake for my daughter’s first birthday.
My Practice Minnie Mouse Cake
The Idea….
My dream and idea for my daughter’s first birthday was for her to have this gorgeous tiered Minnie Mouse cake. Yes, I realize she wouldn’t remember it but I really wanted it because my daughter is the best and deserves the best, right?! Well, after pricing the cake at several bakeries, I realized it would be out of my budget. Most quotes were over $200. The most significant reason why the cake was so expensive is because the bakeries were using fondant. Well, around the time I realized it would be too expensive to buy, my husband went out of town. I dislike when he goes out of town because I am alone. I have 2 kids, but I am the only adult, so you know what I mean. Anyways, I decided to use the time he was gone to learn how to make fondant and a tiered cake. Crazy? Maybe, but I did just that.
The Learning Process…
While my husband was gone on a business trip I searched on the internet to find out how to make a tiered cake. I had no idea how cakes were stacked. I also didn’t know how to make fondant. I found many You Tube videos explaining how to make fondant and how to stack a tiered cake. I also looked for pictures of Minnie Mouse cakes online. I watched tons of these videos on how to stack a cake. If you want to learn how to make fondant, I HIGHLY recommend watching the video in this marshmallow fondant recipe post. You can also buy fondant if you do not have the time or patience to make fondant. Here are places where you can buy fondant. I also wrote a post about Satin Ice fondant if you know for sure that you want Satin Ice.
Buying Supplies…
After I watched all of those videos, I decided how I was going to put the cake together. I also needed to buy supplies because I didn’t own anything to bake a tiered Minnie Mouse cake. I purchased all of my supplies at Michael’s with 40% or 50% off coupons. I did not buy any large item for full price.
To Fondant or Not Fondant…
One of the most important things I decided upon was that I was only going to use fondant for the Minnie Mouse head decorations. Why not cover the entire cake? Because I really wanted the taste of buttercream icing. Marshmallow fondant is suppose to be tasty, which it was in my experience. However, I would still want this buttercream recipe over any marshmallow fondant recipe out there. Regular fondant that is not marshmallow does not taste very good from what I have read, so I didn’t even bother with it.
Putting it All Together…
Starting now is the post I wrote about how to make a tiered Minnie Mouse cake with fondant.
This post is really aimed for beginners like me who has never decorated a cake before. I will walk you through what I did to make this for her first birthday party. The cake above was used on her actual birthday, not birthday party.
Minnie Mouse Cake and Baby Minnie Cake
You will definitely want to read the post thoroughly before you start!
CAKE SUPPLIES NEEDED
2 10 inch cake pans and 2 8 inch cake pans (or 9 inch and 6 or 7 inch). Click HERE
Icing Spatula like THIS
Viva paper towels to smooth the buttercream
Decorating bags like THIS
Icing Gel- click HERE
Dowels for cake. Dowels are needed to support a tiered cake. We used wooden dowels, but my husband recommends us using the cardboard dowels next time. Click HERE
Cake cardboard circle
Minnie and/or Minnie Mouse figurine (which I purchased from Party City). You can also buy THIS
MAKE MICKEY OR MINNIE MOUSE FONDANT
1. Make the fondant ahead of time. You can learn how to make marshmallow fondant on this website. To make the fondant black, I substituted half the confectioners sugar with cocoa and added black Wilton gel coloring that you can find HERE. Place aside some non colored fondant (with no cocoa or chocolate added) if you want a color other than black fondant like for the bows.
2. It is recommended to let the fondant sit overnight. I don’t know why this is recommended, but I have read it several times (sorry for the unsupported advice). Make sure you wrap the fondant in saran wrap and cover it in a Tupperware container sealed tightly. Do not refrigerate.
3. Roll the marshmallow fondant out with a rolling pin. It might be helpful to put Crisco on your hands to work with the fondant before rolling it out. I found that the Minnie Mouse heads worked best if the fondant was about 1/8 inch thin. We initially had fondant that was about 1/4 inch thick. To ME, it was too thick and was very heavy on the cake. We used 3 round cookie cutters to make 2 ears and a head or you can find a larger Mickey/Minnie cookie cutter HERE
4. To make the bows, we added pink food gel to the fondant mixture. We used the pink from THIS
5. I gently placed the bows on the Minnie Mouse heads and ears. You can use buttercream or vanilla extract to help it stick if you choose to.
6. Store Minnie or Mickey Mouse fondant cutouts in a pyrex container or tupperware. I did place the fondant cutouts on top of wax paper so I could remove them from the container easily.
MAKE CAKE
1. Pick the recipe you want. I used a chocolate recipe from All Recipes. You can also use a cake box mix if you would like. I noticed many recipes are for 9 inch cake pans. You will probably triple the recipe for a tiered cake. Just make sure you have enough ingredients before you start.
2. Cook Cake.
3. Cool cake for TEN minutes. Flip cake onto cooling rack. I have tested this every time. 10 minutes seems like the magic number. If you wait to long, the cake can sweat and you won’t be able to remove the cake with ease.
MAKE BUTTERCREAM
I highly recommend the recipe below. I found this recipe in a Wilton book. I also saw it on All Recipes, but no credit was given to Wilton for some reason. You will need to quadruple the recipe to cover the cake, so here is the new calculated buttercream recipe:
2 cups shortening
2 cups of softened butter
4 teaspoons of clear vanilla extract
16 cups of confectioners sugar
8 tablespoons of milk
Some of the reviewers on All Recipes said they preferred using all butter instead of shortening. However, all the reviews who claimed to be cake decorators said the recipe needed shortening for decorating. I believe them. I left the shortening in the recipe.
PUT TOGETHER THE CAKE
1. Spread a layer of buttercream between the 2 10 inch layer cakes
2. Stack layers on top of each other
3. Insert dowels (check back for the how to video I will post)
4. Crumbcoat the cake (check back for the how to video I will post)
5. Do steps 1-4 to the 8 inch cakes. Make sure you put the 8 inch cakes on top of a circle cake board.
6. After the crumbcoat has set, ice the cakes. Ice the cakes before you stack the 8 inch cakes on top of the 10 inch cakes.
7. Let icing crust a bit.
8. Use Viva paper towels to smooth out buttercream to give it the fondant look.
9. Place 8 inch cakes with cardboard on top of 10 inch cakes.
DECORATE THE CAKE
This is fairly straightforward. Place fondant where you want to on the cake. Using buttercream or vanilla extract to stick the fondant to the cake.
Using your decorators bag and tips, you will want to make a border on the cake.
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