Minnie Mouse Fondant Cake How-to

Here's how to create the fondant cake featured in our Girls Birthday Cake Ideas Gallery.

Ingredients:

• A frosted cake
• White fondant
• Black fondant
• Icing color in rose
• Pink icing tube

Supplies:

    __Fondant roller
    __X-Acto knife     __Toothpick
    __Mickey Mouse cookie cutter     __Tip coupler     __Wilton decorating tip 32
    __Minnie Mouse and solid-colored candles

Instructions:

1. Take your ball of white fondant and knead it until it's soft. Using a toothpick, dot the rose icing color onto the ball of fondant and knead until the color is evenly distributed. Repeat to get desired shade and roll out into a sheet.

2. Smooth the pink fondant over the cake and trim off excess with an X-Acto knife.

3. Roll out your black fondant and use a Mickey Mouse cookie cutter to cut out a mouse shape. Using the X-Acto knife, cut out white circles and mini pink strips for the polka-dots and bow. Dab the shapes with water and attach to cake.

4. Fit the tube of pink icing with the tip coupler and tip 32 and pipe a decorative border around the base of the cake.

5. For a sweet finish, top the cake with Minnie Mouse and other colorful candles!