Minnie Mouse Cake

Minnie’s style will make any birthday boy or girl smile! A great cake for beginning decorators, this cake uses the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse pan – just add a pink gum paste or fondant bow. It’s perfect for themed birthdays and Disney parties.

Skill LevelBeginner

AmountCake serves 12

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

Minnie Mouse Cake - Bow Pattern

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In advance: Make bow. Tint 6 oz. of gum paste rose. Roll out 1/8 in. thick. Using Bow Patterns and knife, cut one bottom and two top sections. Score lines with veining tool from set following pattern. Let dry on cornstarch-dusted board. Attach top sections to bottom with gum glue adhesive.

Also: Make polka dots. Roll out white gum paste 1/16 in. thick. Cut circles using wide end of tip 2A. Attach to bow with gum glue adhesive.

And: Make knot. Roll a 1/2 x 2 in. long log of rose gum paste. Flatten to 3/4 in. wide. Taper one end and attach for knot with gum glue adhesive.
Bake and cool Minnie Mouse cake. Position on foil-wrapped cake board cut to fit.
Outline facial features with tip 3 and black buttercream icing. Pipe in eyes with white, mouth and pupils with black and tongue with peach (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Cover top of head, nose and ears with tip 16 stars in black. Cover face with tip 16 stars in light copper. Pipe tip 3 dot eye highlights in white and outline lashes in black.
Position bow; prop up with a small amount of icing.