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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