Where to start?
First I made the cakes...two 8 inch round and two 6 inch round. I level off all of the cakes and then let them sit out for a while until they are completely cool and the outside no longer feels moist (FYI, I really don't like the word moist, but I can't think of a better one). Then I add my filling, this one has a strawberry filling, and put the two cakes together. My next step is to crumb coat the cakes with a layer of buttercream (this is a very thin coat of icing to keep it from making crumbs). Makes sense, right? Then into the fridge it goes.
Now I make my fondant (MMF) in all of the colors I need. For this cake I needed Black, Hot Pink and White. When I am done I pull out the cakes and add another thin layer of buttercream. I roll out my fondant to about 1/8 of an inch and carefully place it over the cake and smooth it out, cutting off the excess. This sounds so easy, but I have really screwed this up more times than I want to admit.
Here is what the cake looked like at this point.
I threw some buttercream on top of the bottom (white) layer and put the top on.
Then I made a crapload (official cake making terminology) of black circles
...they have multiple uses in this project.
I used white buttercream that I thickened up with powdered sugar
to attach the dots to the cake.
Now onto the bows. I need one large white one for the top of the cake, little pink ones for the Minnie's on the side of the cake and little white ones for the cupcakes. I did mention that I was also making cupcakes, right?
I will go into the making of the bows at a later date, but I do recommend having parchment paper handy to dry your fondant on.
Oh, and I made little pink dots to put on the big white bow, too.
I put all of this onto the cake using hot pink buttercream.
I put all of this onto the cake using hot pink buttercream.
Then I took a much needed break. Seriously.
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