The Cake

As most of you know Super Tater recently had a birthday. He loves Mickey Mouse. I suggested we do a Mickey cake, thinking he would want Mickey's face. Instead he chose to have Mickey's clubhouse. So here is what we created.

 

Can you tell how much he liked it?

Princess Little took this picture for me.  It shows more detail (she's still getting used to her new camera so it's a bit blurry, sorry). The red dome shape, the arm and the spacer under the head are all cake covered in fondant. The head, foot and leg, and hand (Handy Balloon) are all made of Rice Krispie Treat and then covered in fondant. The fence, slide, stepping stones and Pluto are all sculpted out of fondant.

Just to tell you what a wonderful big sister PL is, when Super Tater first saw his cake he wanted to know where Pluto was. I was trying to get things ready for the neighbours to come over and honestly I hadn't even given any thought to Pluto. PL stepped in and sculpted Pluto out of scraps of fondant. I was so impressed at her thoughtfulness and her creativity! ST was really pleased too. (She also made the fence and the gate posts. )

We had a lot of fun with this cake. I have always used a shaped cake pan before, so this was definitely a learning experience. The Handy Balloon kept falling over (that's why you can see green smudges on it) and one of the ears kept falling off (you can see some of my marshmallow glue). This was also the first time I have ever worked with fondant (an icing that you roll out and then lay over the cake). It wasn't as bad as I was afraid it would be. I was very thankful for the stand mixer that I got for Christmas. It made making the cake and all the icing/fondant super easy!