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Learn how to decorate a Mickey Mouse Cake even if you aren’t a cake decorator! This easy cake decoration is something ANYONE can do easily without any special tools – you just need a few easy ingredients and a love for Mickey Mouse!
I have so many feels about this cake, even more this morning than I did when I made it a few weeks ago.
A friend’s daughter was turning 10 and Disney is her favorite thing. She wanted a Mickey Mouse Disney cake, so I offered to make it for her. Putting this cake together, dreaming up how to decorate it, building my own sprinkle mix: it gave me so much happiness.
It turns out that a Mickey Mouse Cake is not only magical because everything Disney is magical, but because it’s a fun and sweet cake for anyone’s birthday.
How to make a Mickey Mouse Cake
- All products you need to make this cake are linked in the bottom of this post.
- I started with my yellow cake recipe. You could use any cake you want (maybe chocolate or red velvet) and you can even add sprinkles to make it a funfetti cake. Use my recipes or use a box, just make sure you end up with two 8-inch or 9-inch round cakes.
- Fill them as desired with frosting or filling and then crumb coat the cake with some vanilla frosting. (Sometimes I cheat and crumb coat my cakes with canned frosting!)
- How do you make a rosette on a cake? I am amazing at making a rosette cake – I use them on all my cake and cupcake recipes. Use a Wilton 1M tip to make the swirl, building it up as you go.
- The Mickey frosting has two yellow dots of yellow frosting (or you can use two yellow pearl sprinkles).
- The Minnie frosting has white pearl sprinkles to represent the dots on her dress.
- Each rosette has two mini Oreo ears to make the Mickey Mouse ears!
How do you make ganache for cakes?
I based my ganache on this ganache recipe. I now have a post on how to make chocolate ganache, but the formula for the drippy kind is a little bit different. Her recipe is thin enough to drizzle but thick enough to stop partway down. It’s perfect!
You can use any color melting chocolate for the ganache if you wanted a fun color on top, but the chocolate ganache drizzle fit right in with my theme. Lindsay’s videos even show you how to drizzle the chocolate over the cake.
Tips
- Don’t want to make a cake? Buy a plain layer cake from the bakery and just decorate it yourself.
- If you can’t find sprinkles you like, make your own sprinkle mix! I mixed the Mickey Mouse Sprinkles and the jimmies to make my own colorful mix.
- This cake was done in traditional Mickey colors but you can swap this to easily make a Minnie Mouse Cake by using shades of pink.
- Since it can be hard to get food coloring to be really red, head to your local craft store and get some already-made red frosting. It comes in a can and has the perfect color. This is so much easier than making your own red frosting!
Prep Time 3 hours
Total Time 3 hours
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Fill your cake as desired and give it a crumb coat. Chill.
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Frost the outside of your cake with white frosting (or any color you want). Smooth it as much as possible.
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Mix your sprinkles or use any color combination you want to press along the bottom of the cake. Do this right after frosting so they’ll stick. Do it over the sink too – it’ll make a mess! Chill to set.
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Drizzle the cake with the chocolate ganache. Let set before decorating.
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Use a 1M tip to pipe rosettes around the edge of the cake. Decorate every other one with two yellow dots (Mickey) and white pearl sprinkles (Minnie). Top each with two mini Oreos to represent ears.
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Cake will last in refrigerator up to 2 days.
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 85kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Fat: 1g | Sugar: 18g
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
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