The Making of a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Cake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a tutorial on how I made this Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cake. It is a very simple cake to make and certain elements such as the topper can be made ahead of time. To read more about this cake and see other views of it, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE PROCESS:

(1) At least 48 hours before you start decorating the cake, make the clubhouse topper. A tutorial on how to make this topper can be found here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(2) Bake and frost the cake and drape it in green fondant. Also cover the cake board with sky blue fondant. Place the draped cake on the cake board using melted white chocolate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3) Add some more green to the leftover green fondant to deepen the color. Roll it out and use a fondant wheel to mark out patterns to look like rolling hill. Use a pizza cutter to cut out the pattern and wrap the base of the cake with it. Use a little bit of water or vodka to stick this base to the cake. Brush the rest of the cake with vodka to remove icing sugar residue and add some gloss to it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(4) Next, make the tree at the right side of the cake. Roll out brown fondant and cut out the shape of a tree using a pizza cutter or sharp blade. Use your thumb to make an indentation in the middle of the tree trunk. Roll out a thin brown fondant rope and stick it to the edge of the indentation in the middle of the trunk. Use a fondant wheel to mark the tree trunk and branches. Stick this to the left side of the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(5) Next, make green leaves using leftover green fondant and a small petal cutter. Stick the brood part of the petals together with a little bit of water to form the leaves and stick these to the tree with a little bit of water or vodka. Later on when the leaves have dried, brush them with some vodka to remove any icing sugar residue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(6) Next, start building the topper on top of the cake. Spread a little bit of melted white chocolate in the middle of the cake and place the body of the clubhouse along with the shoe on the cake.

Note: If you followed the tutorial on how to make the topper, you will realize that I just completed the windows of the clubhouse with the black fondant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(7) Next, spread a little bit of melted white chocolate on the base of the hand and insert it into the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(8) Next, spread a little bit of melted white chocolate on the neck of the clubhouse and insert the head along with the dowel through the body and into the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(9) Finish the look of the topper by placing a red piece of fondant at the foot of the shoe door and light green fondant circles at the shoe area down to the side of the cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(10) Next roll out a long piece of yellow fondant about an inch thick. Brush the cake board with a bit of vodka and place the yellow fondant around the cake (or around the front half of the cake). This would serve as the fence of the clubhouse. Use some color paste bottles to support the yellow fondant behind and leave the cake this way until the fondant dries (I left it overnight…in the fridge).

 

 

 

 

 

 

(11) Finish the cake by placing the gate in front of the yellow fence. Do not forget to place a ribbon around the cake board. That’s all there is to it. Happy caking!