Princess Cake Tutorial
Calories: 246kcal
Adjust Servings Here: 20 servings
Description
A princess cake makes a perfect birthday cake for any little girl no matter what Disney princess she loves. While it is a sculpted cake it is one of the simplest and easiest cakes to create. Fondant designs with ruffles, frills, swags, and bows are the easiest additions to make a girls dream dress. The best part is that you can even get the little girl to be part of the making process.
Ingredients
- 1 cake Chocolate Mud Cake Recipe. doll pan
- 250 grams Velvet American buttercream
- 250 grams Chocolate Ganache
- 700 grams Marshmallow Fondant
Instructions
Prepare
- Bake Cake in one 6" ball pan and one 6" round cake - see 30 plus layer cake recipes here
- Cool cakes completely before decorating.
- Prepare filling and frosting - see 30 plus frosting recipes here
- Prepare simple syrup
Decorate
- Torte cake sphere in half
- Brush each layer with simple syrup
- Stack the cake layers on the cake board - spreading a generous amount of frosting between each layer.
- Place in the fridge for 15 minutes so the layers do not move.
- If you plan to use a doll with legs - hollow out the top end of the skirt making space for the doll legs (alternatively you can just use the top half of the doll body)
- Then frost the cake with chocolate ganache or more buttercream - use a spatula to smooth the layers.
- Chill the cake in the fridge for an hour of more so the ganache sets firm
Cover with fondant
- Brush the cake lightly with water - wipe off any excess
- Roll white fondant and cover the cake smoothing all around -
- Cut off any excess.
- Decorations - Billowing technique
- Roll more white fondant - cut into squares or rectangular pieces
- Pinch the two short sides as shown in the video.
- Arrange each billow on the cake - front of the dress
- Continue to make these until you have a tapered design from top to the bottom. As shown in the video.
Decorations - Ruffles
- Roll a long strip of fondant about 4 inches in width.
- Pinch or pleat the fondant as shown in the video
- Use a rolling pin to press the center (length wayin. This will fuse the fondant as one
- Cut the pleated strip from the center so you have two ruffles
- Place these around the cake
- Adjust the ends of the ruffles with the fondant billows placed earlier.
Decorations - Skirt
- Roll some fondant strips in turquoise fondant
- Stencil a pattern using gold luster dust as shown in the video
- Cut the strip to the size needed for the skit.
- Attach pinched on the top and flared over the skirt.
- Decoration - Front Ruffles
- Roll and cut two long strip of turquoise
- Fold it to create pleats
- Arrange in front of the skirt as shown in the video
- Making sure to arrange all the previous fondant designs neatly.
Decoration - Swag
- Roll a long strip of turquoise
- Fold it to create pleats as shown in the video
- Cut into smaller sections to create swags around the dress.
Princess Body
- Wrap a plastic doll in cling wrap
- You can use only the top half of the doll or insert the doll into the cake
- If using only the top use a skewer to anchor the doll in place.
- Cover the top of her body in with fondant - as shown in the video
- Gently place the doll in place
- Add a fondant belt for the doll to cover the seam between the body and skirt.
- Add a fondant bow on the back.
- Turquoise fondant can be used to create accents like bodice lines and sleeves.
Finishing
- To finish the dress add some dragees over each fondant billow
- Small roses over each swag.
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