Parents and other party planners can make a praise-worthy Cinderella-themed cake with little previous experience in cake decorating. Choose an easy-to-make cake design with buttercream icing decorations or challenge yourself to develop or improve your cake decorating skills and practice with fondant and sugar paste decorations. Cakes can be made up to 48 hours in advance, leaving plenty of time to correct any decorating errors. Does this Spark an idea?
Cinderella Doll Cake
Make a three-dimensional doll cake and use a real Cinderella doll as part of the cake. Prepare a cake mix and bake it in a round oven-safe bowl. Once the cake has cooled, take it out of the bowl and turn it flat-side-down on a round cake tray. This is the skirt for Cinderella's dress. Cover the entire cake in a layer of white buttercream icing. Refrigerate the cake for 30 minutes to let the icing firm. Cover the cake in a layer of blue buttercream icing. Leave a small triangle at the bottom of one side without the blue icing to become the dress's underskirt. Use an icing spatula to make waves in the blue icing skirt. Carve out a hole in the top of the cake to insert a Cinderella doll to the waist. Use the blue buttercream icing and a pastry bag with a star icing tip to make the bodice of the dress on the Cinderella doll.
Pillow and Slipper Cake
Make a cake into a pillow and top it with a new glass slipper dress-up shoe. Make a two-layer, 8-inch square cake and freeze the cake for two to three hours. Use a serrated knife to taper each of the four sides to form the pillow shape and then repeat the tapering process on the bottom of the cake. Cover the pillow cake with a thin layer of buttercream icing. Roll out a package of blue fondant and smooth it over the top and sides of the cake. Tuck the edges of the fondant underneath the cake. Embellish the pillow with luster dust and edible gem candies. Place the glass slipper on top of the cake and press gently to keep it in place.
Princess Carriage Cake
Make a Cinderella-themed cake in the shape of a princess carriage. Bake a prepared cake mix in a sports ball pan and cover the cool cake in a layer of light blue or cream-colored buttercream icing. Cover four round cookies in the same icing and press them firmly against the cake to make wheels. Decorate the cake with fondant or sugar paste flowers, fondant windows and blue buttercream icing decorative wheel spokes. Add fondant or sugar cookie horses to the front of the carriage for added decoration and use a long length of tiny white beads to make the reins.
Two-Tier Princess Castle
Turn a cake into a party centerpiece with a two-tier cake decorated to look like a Cinderella castle. Make a 10-inch and an 8-inch cake in round or hexagonal cake pans. Stack the smaller cake on top of the larger and cover each cake in a sheet of white fondant or a layer of smooth white buttercream icing. Add a door and windows around the cake, made from fondant and trimmed with blue buttercream icing. For castle lookouts, cover 10 cake pillars of various heights with white buttercream icing and top each pillar with a foam or plastic cone shape covered in blue buttercream icing. Press the pillars against the cake on the bottom tier and into the cake on the second tier.
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