Cinderella Carriage Cake

All little girls are into Cinderella carriage cake at some point. In this post I show you in detail how I made this super fun, easy and impressive cake effortlessly.

This was my Rhea's birthday cake. She had two request. The first was this Cinderella carriage cake and the second was A Minnie Mouse car cake. She's seven and so everything is about Cinderella or Ariel and Minnie Mousse

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Now this is honestly a super fun cake to make! Super easy and yet super impressive.

Step by step instructions

Bake the cake

• I baked the cake with my kids as this was suppose to be a fun project for them.
• I used One bowl Vanilla Cake Recipe  and substituted 3 tablespoon of the flour with 3 tablespoon of Cocoa powder.
• I put everything in one bowl and all the kids did was STIR!!
• Then I baked in my Ball Pans as stated in the recipe.
• Once baked. Cool them completely.
• I cool them then freeze them so they hold better when I'm working.
• In the pictures below you can see they are almost frozen cause I forgot to take them out.

Sorry not the best picture but you can see I have use my ball cake pans here to make two six inch semi circle cakes.

Making the carriage wheels

• While your cakes are cooling make the wheels with gum paste.
• This is fairly easy. I used my clay ext-ruder to foam some long sausages. If you don't have an ext-ruder just roll with your hands.  The four large spirals ones were the wheels.
• Gum Paste will dry in a few hours; while fondant with CMC might take about a day or more in humid places.
• The size of the wheels will depend on the size of the base you made. Explained below.
• If you are not sure of the size of the wheels, draw a ball about 6 inches in diameter on a piece of paper and use that as a guide. Then make your base to match the size you have on made the wheels.
• Let these dry completely before you handle them.
• Always make extra just in case.

Tort, layer and fill each dome

• I used Buttercream to fill my layers and then Chocolate Ganache to frost the outside. I used a small piece of cake board (foam core) shaped like the bottom on my ball.
• I placed it on the bottom and then layered my cake layers with buttercream in the ball pan.
• I have used Cling wrap to line my pan for easy removal later.
• Do this with both halves of the ball pan. Chill them completely.
• Doweling  the bottom tier is optional for this small cake if you not going to travel much. Dowels can help support your cake and making transferring easy.
• I use three bubble straws as dowels.
• Then I place a 5.½ inch cake board on it before I place the top dome on.

• Here you can see. I have both spheres all ready stacked.
• I do this with the pans still in tack. And I chill them again so the buttercream will hold the two together and not move when I'm frosting.
• I used Ganache for the outside. I always use center dowels for most of my cakes - in this case the center dowel helps me hold the ball while I frost.
• Once frosted I can then pick it up and place it on it final cake board.
• Smooth the ball as best you can then drape it with fondant.
• I liked the pink at first but then brushed it with some Blush Pink luster dust and Vodka mix.
• You don't have to do this.  Still very wet here in this picture. You have to wait for this to dry before you can continue.

The cake structure / base for the ball

• All I used is a small rectangle piece of foam  about an inch thick and rectangular piece of foam core cake board about ¼ inch thick.
• The bottom foam base is later covered in black fondant to give the illusion of space below.
• The top is used as a carriage base.

Decorate the cinderella carriage cake

• From here on - it's all up to you on how you want to decorate it. I had fun so forgo to take pictures for you, but you can see that it's all a bit of mold searching on what looks nice and how you would like it to be.
• I used my very favorite Marvelous Molds and some others that I buy on Amazon (impulse shopping)  Below I have listed some of the molds I used. But you don't have to stick to molds or use what I have used,  just be creative and use what you already have.
  

here you can see some of the details.

• For these I added CMC to my fondant with yellow food color gel so I can then paint it in gold luster dust.
• Next I covered the carriage base and the board then added the wheels.
• I made the wheels in pink but then figured I'd rather have them gold. So I painted them with gold luster dust.

And finally the full cake again.

I hope you find this tutorial useful and super easy. Feel free to ask any questions in the comments below.