My husband and I made this Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake for our son on his second birthday. It was our first time to try to make a three-dimensional cake.
We used 9″ round pans for the face and ears and cut the ears down to size. We used the scraps from that to build up the three-dimensional mouth and nose.
For the frosting on the ears and head, we did not want to use black (black frosting and 2-year-old’s don’t mix! Plus, adults don’t like black frosting either), so we created a dark chocolate frosting to use instead of black. Even the outlines of the facial features and the eyes were done with a dark chocolate instead of black.
For the face, we mixed store-bought butter cream frosting with some yellow and red food coloring to create a peach skin tone color.
All the other details on the face, such as the tongue and eyes, were done with cookie icing that comes in the little easy-to-use squeeze pouches.
Originally, we were going to pipe all the icing using the star-shaped icing tip. We were way too impatient for that, though, and just started sweeping the icing across however it would go on.
I think it came out pretty well for first-timers, and overall it was easy to do.
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