Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon and today we are going to make a Mickey
Mouse cake.
Now the difficulty with making a 3D Mickey mouse cake is that if you look
at a drawing of Mickey Mouse from the side, his nose actually comes right up
above his eye level. And if we turned him to the front view he would look
rather strange with his nose right above it. So what we will do is just build it up
slightly to give it a 3D look to it and make it look like the pictures
drawn of the front of the face. To start with you need to grease a 20cm
or 8 inch
baking tin and line it with some baking paper.
You'll also need to do the same with tow breakfast bowls. The ones that I used were
seventeen and a half centimeters across the top
Put all your ingredients for your vanilla cake into a bowl and mix it until it is
just combined and smooth.
For all the recipe quantities go to the website howtocookthat.net
There's is a link in the description below this video.
Put some of the mixture into the tin.
and then some into each of the bowls and then you also going to need one cupcake case.
Put some mixture into that as well
Bake it in the oven until a skewer inserted intot he cake comes out
clean without any
mixture on it and then they are ready
allow them all to cool
Then level off the top of the round cake but keep that spare piece that you have
cut off because you are going tot need it later.
Take a cake board and cover it in a piece of aluminium foil
The board that I ma using is just a piece of mdf with four smaller pieces stuck
to the bottom to make it easy to lift it up and move it.
And then secure
your foil on the back using sticky tape.
Put a smear of buttercream on the foil that helps stop the cake from moving.
and then place your round cake on the board
Use the cake as a template to cut the curve out of each of your ears so that they will sit
nicely against the head
cover the face in buttercream
then take the piece that you took off the top and put it over the bottom of the
face about at the cheek level
and trim it using the cake as a guide.
then add the bits you cut off from the ears just above that for the cheeks
and then take the cup
cake that you had and trim it around so that it fits on the bottom to make the chin.
And gives that little bit of a rise at the bottom of the chin
Then using a finely serrated knife
carefully just round off the edges of your cake to give it a rounder look to it.
Then what you want to do is cover that whole thing in buttercream.
Then cover your ears in frosting and put them to one side.
Then take some good quality paper towel
and put it on top of the buttercream and you just gently press and rub and it
smooths out any of those little bumps
and lumps in the butter cream from when you were spreading it on.
and do the same with the ears so that you have a nice smooth finish.
If the paper towel starts to stick
just get a new piece of paper towel, you might need to use several pieces to do it.
Clean up the cake board and get rid of any of the crumbs.
Then take some black fondant, when I'm working with fondant I always buy
pre colored if you try and colour your own you end up with grey. Roll it our big enough to cover the
top of the cake and make the bottom edge curved and role that really thin
so that it can sit under another layer of fondant without you being able to see it.
Lay it over the top part of the cake, it needs to be from the cheek level up.
Roll out some more and use that to wrap up each of the ears. The you can put them
into place
Then you want to take some
pink fondant for the tongue
roll it out and cut at the top
shape for the tongue and then using a rolling pin what you want to do is make the bottom edge
you can leave the bottom bigger than you think it needs to be because that's fine but we
need to
roll the bottom edge so that it goes down to paper thin so that we don't get a
groove from it. You will see what I mean in a minute.
If you've not worked with fondant before i've done a video on how to make fondant and
also how to colour fondant
working with fondant basics if you look in the description below this
video
there's a link to a video play list called cake decorating tutorials and those videos
are all in there.
Roll out some more black fondant and cover over the mouth area.
and then add the tongue, trimming it up if it is too big, make it a little bit smaller.
then roll out some fondant into a ball shape
and then make it a cylinder
that goes smaller on the edges.
Then slightly bend it into a moon shape put one for each cheek
and then you want one in the middle in the nose area.
role out your skin colored fondant
and cut out the shape for the top of the eyes and the cheeks
and then place that over your cake.
Then gently you should be able to feel where the mouth goes. Cut out the mouth shape to
reveal the tongue that you already put in place.
Then use your fingers to smooth the fondant around the cheeks and the
nose. You are getting that 3D look coming through already.
Trim off the excess fondant using a knife.
Around the chin area just pull up the fondant
tuck it back in, pull it up, tuck it in until it is nice and smooth
then trim
slightly
larger than you think you are going to need
and then use a knife to tuck it in
so it is all nice and neat on the sides.
Then use something round, I am using a medicine cup.
Just to make that indent for the top of the smile just where the cheeks start.
Use a piece of paper towel to brush of any exess icing sugar that you might have got on
the black and make sure the black is all smooth and clean.
To make the eyes take a piece of white fondant and roll it into a ball
and then cut it in half this will give you two equal pieces so that your eyes are going to be
the same
then roll them into a cylinder
and then using the rolling pin flatten that out to make the eye shape
put them together next to each other and then I am using the medicine cup again
just to cut around the base
to give the shape of the cheeks
so that then you can just place them into place
Where they should go. Trim the outside corner of the eye to make it rounded
Take a small amount of black fondant and roll it into a ball
and cut it in two.
they roll each one of those into a ball and then elongate the ball
and squash it an oval shape
and place them into place
for the pupils of the eyes and make sure they're exactly in line with each
other
take a good-sized chunk of black fondant and roll it into an oval shape and put in
place for the nose
Then take a tinsey amount of white and roll it out into a tiny oval
and place it on the very top side of each of the eyes. This just helps bring the
eyes to life a bit.
and then repeat that with a tiny bit on the tongue to make a highlight on that
as well
Lastly roll out some fine snakes out of black fondant.
If you haven't done that before it might take a bit of practice to get tham smooth
and equal the whole way. Use that to outline all of the facial features
because it is a cartoon
it looks better if it's got that black outline all the way around
Use a knife to help you position them perfectly.
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