I prayed for the hurting to instruct away as well as slept through the black as well as when I woke upward it was 7 a.m. ! My dorsum was feeling much better!I had lost an threescore minutes due to daylight saving. We had moved our clocks an threescore minutes ahead 12.00 am. Sunday! The political party was to set about at 12 p.m.! Well, I but prayed as well as set out working! I decided that I was going to elbow grease as well as brand the cake every bit my miss had her pump onset it as well as direct maintain it from there. I volition brand the pasta if at that spot is fourth dimension or else social club pizza! I seat the cake together, frosted it, seat it inwards the fridge as well as when I was waiting for the frosting to set, made the pasta as well as start kneading the fondant. The hardest purpose was rolling the fondant out. I prayed that it would live plenty to cove the cake as well as that it wouldn't tear! The guide for this cake was from the website: how to create that.net.Ann had covered the whole doll amongst the fondant. As for me, I knew sure I didn't direct maintain plenty fondant to ringlet it that large as well as encompass the cake. I decided to skip roofing the doll as well as but encompass the cake as well as and hence insert the doll. Well, needless to say, it did work, but I had to bargain amongst cracks inwards the pleats of the dress. I direct maintain tried to enshroud the flaws of the clothes amongst snowflakes placed strategically. Also, since my doll came amongst a plastic dress, I chose non to brand the bodice for the doll. I used what the doll already had on. I also chose non to brand the cape for Elsa for sheer lack of time. I didn't mean value that my miss would aid anyways! This is far from my best cake. There are hundreds of flaws inwards this cake. But the bottom business is that my miss was super-thrilled as well as happy to run across her dream cake as well as all her picayune friends loved it too.. They couldn't halt going "Elsa, Elsa"! That I believe is " MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"!
The cake was made upward of chocolate fudge cake as well as sprinkle vanilla cake. I made 2 9-inch cakes, ane chocolate, ane vanilla as well as the dome was made of chocolate fudge cake besides as well as layered it .
Servings: 20-25
Ingredients:
For the chocolate fudge cake:
Boxed cake mixes: 2( I used Duncan Hines Chocolate Fudge Cake )
Eggs: 6
Water: 2 cups
Oil: 1 loving cup ( I used canola oil)
For the sprinkle vanilla cake:
Boxed cake mix: 1( I used Betty Crocker Funfetti Cake )
Eggs: 3
Water: 1cup
Oil: 1/2 loving cup ( I used canola oil)
For the buttercream icing:( to brand 2 1/2 cups icing)
Confectioners Sugar: iv cups
Butter : 1cup( at room temperature)
Vanilla essence: 1 1/2 tsp
Water/ Milk: 2 tbsp
For decorating the doll:
Light Blue ready to ringlet fondant: 1 box ( I used Cake Boss)
Shortening: every bit needed to knead the fondant.
Corn flour: every bit needed to dust the operate surface.
White shimmer pulverization : 1 pocket-size box ( I used Wilton)
Water: 2 tbsp
Method:
For the cake:
Preheat the oven to 350 deg F.
Assemble the dome shaped cake pan every bit per instructions.Prepare the dome shaped cake pan & the 2 9-inch circular pans yesteryear spraying non-stick spray. Keep it aside.
Prepare the cake batter every bit per instructions on the cake box.
Pour the cake batter into the dome- shaped cake pan until 2/3 rds full. Do the same amongst the 9-inch circular pan. Use the residue of the batter to brand cupcakes.
Place the dome- shaped cake pan on the middle rack of the oven as well as the circular pan on the lower rack .Bake for 45-50 mins or until a skewer comes build clean when inserted.If non done, bake for additional five mins as well as cheque again. Repeat this inwards five min intervals until the cake is done.
The circular cake was done inwards 20-25 minutes.
I did the same affair amongst the sprinkle-vanilla cake.
Remove the cakes out of the oven as well as allow it cool on the cooling rack for 15-30 mins.
Level all the cakes as well as locomote along aside to cool completely earlier layering as well as icing them.
Insert the doll inwards the cakes as well as cutting out a circle from the middle of the cakes hence that the doll tin correspond inwards there.
The Icing:
When the cake is cooling ready the icing.
Take the butter as well as the vanilla essence inwards a bowl, whip it until soft peaks are seen.
Now add together sifted confectioners saccharide picayune yesteryear picayune as well as mix until good combined.
Add the H2O as well as mix well. Icing should live of medium consistency.
Add a few drops of Wilton royal blueish gel color to instruct the desired blueish color.
Preparing the doll:
Take off the doll's costume & shoes as well as roll the doll inwards protective plastic wrap. Insert the doll into the cake until her hips.Remove the doll out as well as locomote along aside.
Putting the cake together:
Place a sparse layer of icing on ane side of the cake board .The icing volition locomote along the cake inwards house as well as foreclose it from moving.
When cooled, invert the circular chocolate cake onto the cake board. Layer it amongst 1 inch thick layer of icing of your choice.
I used blueish vanilla icing that I had leftover subsequently frosting the cupcakes.Place the vanilla-sprinkle cake on top of the chocolate cake. Apply ane inch layer of icing on this. Now house the dome- shaped cake on top of this.
Using a spatula, apply a 1/2 inch thick coating of icing roughly the cake.
I carved the cake inwards the front end to instruct inwards expect apartment inwards the front end as well as the clothes bellowing inwards the back.
Keep it inwards the fridge for 3-4 hours or overnight.
The fondant dress:
When the icing is existence set inwards the fridge, ready the fondant cover.
Knead the blueish fondant inwards portions using a picayune shortening, until soft as well as pliable. Combine the pocket-size portions together to instruct inwards into ane large ball.
Apply cornstarch on the operate surface( I used ringlet as well as cutting fondant mat) as well as ringlet the fondant to 30-35 inches circle.
Once the fondant has been rolled out as well as ready, direct maintain the cake exterior the refrigerator.
Using a pastry brush, gently brush H2O on the buttercream frosting. This helps the fondant to stick to the frosting.
Using the rolling pivot ringlet the fondant on to the rolling pin.
Place the fondant on the cake as well as slow as well as carefully unroll it, roofing the cake every bit yous unroll it.
Arrange the pleats on the clothes to your liking. Cut off the excess fondant at the base of operations using a paring knife.
Now stick the Elsa doll dorsum into the cake until her waist.
Using the excess fondant, ringlet out a rectangle as well as instruct inwards into a sash. Wrap this sash roughly Elsa's waist.
Mix 1 tsp white sparkle pulverization inwards 2 tsp H2O . With a sparse pigment brush pigment sparse lines on her clothes along the pleats.
Dust some sparkle pulverization on her dress.
Attach the snowflakes made earlier manus from royal icing to the clothes every bit yous please.
Apply a thick layer of royal icing on the cake board along the hem of her clothes to push clit snow. Sorry, I didn't direct maintain fourth dimension to direct maintain pictures for these final stages every bit I was rushing to instruct the cake done!
I made a "happy birthday Kavya" banner on a card-paper as well as placed it on her raised hands.
Voila ! Elsa is ready to direct maintain center-stage!
Enjoy! I am bringing this cake to my beloved friends at Angie's Fiesta Friday! My adept friend Jhuls@ the non hence creative cook as well as Mila@milkandbun are co-hosting this weekend. If yous haven't been to Fiesta Fri yet, you definitely should! They are such a awesome grouping of wonderful people!
For the snowflake cupcakes:
I made 3 1/2 dozen cupcakes: 2 1/2 dozen chocolate as well as 1 dozen sprinkle-vanilla from the batter used to brand the 9-inch cakes. I used one-half for the 9-inch cakes as well as one-half for the cupcake.
I lined the muffin-tin amongst foil cup-cake liners, filled them halfway as well as baked them at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Let them cool completely.
Then frost the cake amongst blue-color frosting using a spatula. Place a snowflake on top of each cupcake!
For the snowflake:
Prepare Royal icing.
Using Wilton tip 3 pipage out snowflakes every bit desired onto a wax paper. Let it dry out overnight.
Royal icing snowflakes tin live brand weeks ahead as well as stored inwards a airtight container inwards a cool house ( non inwards the fridge).
To locomote along the peel inwards your hands soft, usage gloves field doing dishes. Also moisturize your hands directly subsequently drying them.
Every noble operate is at start impossible. Thomas Carlyle
When the cake is cooling ready the icing.
Take the butter as well as the vanilla essence inwards a bowl, whip it until soft peaks are seen.
Now add together sifted confectioners saccharide picayune yesteryear picayune as well as mix until good combined.
Add the H2O as well as mix well. Icing should live of medium consistency.
Add a few drops of Wilton royal blueish gel color to instruct the desired blueish color.
Preparing the doll:
Take off the doll's costume & shoes as well as roll the doll inwards protective plastic wrap. Insert the doll into the cake until her hips.Remove the doll out as well as locomote along aside.
Putting the cake together:
Place a sparse layer of icing on ane side of the cake board .The icing volition locomote along the cake inwards house as well as foreclose it from moving.
When cooled, invert the circular chocolate cake onto the cake board. Layer it amongst 1 inch thick layer of icing of your choice.
I used blueish vanilla icing that I had leftover subsequently frosting the cupcakes.Place the vanilla-sprinkle cake on top of the chocolate cake. Apply ane inch layer of icing on this. Now house the dome- shaped cake on top of this.
Using a spatula, apply a 1/2 inch thick coating of icing roughly the cake.
I carved the cake inwards the front end to instruct inwards expect apartment inwards the front end as well as the clothes bellowing inwards the back.
Keep it inwards the fridge for 3-4 hours or overnight.
The fondant dress:
When the icing is existence set inwards the fridge, ready the fondant cover.
Knead the blueish fondant inwards portions using a picayune shortening, until soft as well as pliable. Combine the pocket-size portions together to instruct inwards into ane large ball.
Apply cornstarch on the operate surface( I used ringlet as well as cutting fondant mat) as well as ringlet the fondant to 30-35 inches circle.
Once the fondant has been rolled out as well as ready, direct maintain the cake exterior the refrigerator.
Using a pastry brush, gently brush H2O on the buttercream frosting. This helps the fondant to stick to the frosting.
Using the rolling pivot ringlet the fondant on to the rolling pin.
Place the fondant on the cake as well as slow as well as carefully unroll it, roofing the cake every bit yous unroll it.
Arrange the pleats on the clothes to your liking. Cut off the excess fondant at the base of operations using a paring knife.
Now stick the Elsa doll dorsum into the cake until her waist.
Using the excess fondant, ringlet out a rectangle as well as instruct inwards into a sash. Wrap this sash roughly Elsa's waist.
Mix 1 tsp white sparkle pulverization inwards 2 tsp H2O . With a sparse pigment brush pigment sparse lines on her clothes along the pleats.
Dust some sparkle pulverization on her dress.
Attach the snowflakes made earlier manus from royal icing to the clothes every bit yous please.
Apply a thick layer of royal icing on the cake board along the hem of her clothes to push clit snow. Sorry, I didn't direct maintain fourth dimension to direct maintain pictures for these final stages every bit I was rushing to instruct the cake done!
I made a "happy birthday Kavya" banner on a card-paper as well as placed it on her raised hands.
Voila ! Elsa is ready to direct maintain center-stage!
Enjoy! I am bringing this cake to my beloved friends at Angie's Fiesta Friday! My adept friend Jhuls@ the non hence creative cook as well as Mila@milkandbun are co-hosting this weekend. If yous haven't been to Fiesta Fri yet, you definitely should! They are such a awesome grouping of wonderful people!
For the snowflake cupcakes:
I made 3 1/2 dozen cupcakes: 2 1/2 dozen chocolate as well as 1 dozen sprinkle-vanilla from the batter used to brand the 9-inch cakes. I used one-half for the 9-inch cakes as well as one-half for the cupcake.
I lined the muffin-tin amongst foil cup-cake liners, filled them halfway as well as baked them at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Let them cool completely.
Then frost the cake amongst blue-color frosting using a spatula. Place a snowflake on top of each cupcake!
For the snowflake:
Prepare Royal icing.
Using Wilton tip 3 pipage out snowflakes every bit desired onto a wax paper. Let it dry out overnight.
Cooking made easy:
Royal icing snowflakes tin live brand weeks ahead as well as stored inwards a airtight container inwards a cool house ( non inwards the fridge).
Tip for good for yous living:
To locomote along the peel inwards your hands soft, usage gloves field doing dishes. Also moisturize your hands directly subsequently drying them.
Food for thought:
Every noble operate is at start impossible. Thomas Carlyle