Mickey Mouse Cake!

For the first party, we bought a cake from our favorite bakery.  For the second party, I decided I wanted to try to make a Mickey Mouse cake.  I bought the shaped pan, which came with directions on how to frost it to look like Mickey.  I had NO experience with using different tips or anything like that, I have only ever used a spatula to ice my cakes!  

I did some searching online and found a suggestion of using crushed up oreos for Mickey's ears. I then went to Wal-Mart on a mission to find a cookie that would work for Mickey's skin tone.  I came across Golden Oreos (didn't even know these existed).  I bought white and black decorating icing for the eyes and mouth.  For Mickey's tongue, I just added some red food coloring to some buttercream icing.

The cake wasn't that hard to make, just time consuming.  I thought it turned out pretty well and Kylie happily yelled "Ka" when she saw it!

I wasn't sure that the Mickey cake would be big enough to serve everyone, plus I wasn't sure how well it would actually turn out, so I made a second cake as a back-up.  This one I just used various things to decorate the top.

Both cakes turned out well and they both tasted pretty yummy also!

Mickey Sneak Peek

I decided that I wanted to try to make a cake for Kylie's birthday and thought it would be a good idea to practice ahead of time.  No picture of the finished product until after her birthday party though!

right out of the oven

Looks cute without anything done to it yet!

I decided to try crushed oreos for the ears instead of using black icing.  I've heard that black icing tastes pretty bad and I didn't want everyone having black teeth either!  The crushed oreos on top of chocolate icing worked really well.  For the "real" birthday cake, I am going to use crushed golden oreos on top of a light colored icing for Mickey's skin tone.  

 This is the first time I had tried anything like this and I was very pleased with how it turned out!  Stay tuned in a couple of weeks for several birthday party posts!