Children's holidays are happy moments that you want to remember for a long time with your children. You always want to cook something bright, unusual and amazingly beautiful.
Mickey Mouse cake can be an unforgettable treat for you and your children.
The cartoon hero, the cheerful mouse Mickey, is loved by children all over the world.
There are many variations in the preparation of this culinary and decorative masterpiece.
You can make a cake in the shape of a Mickey Mouse head, or just a themed culinary product with a cartoon figurine.
You can safely bake such a sweet for your baby’s birthday. You can write the child's name on the cake, as well as leave any inscription you wish. 
As a rule, bright themed cakes are made using mastic.
Mastic is easy to prepare at home.
Ingredients:
Powdered sugar – 500 g.
Butter – 1 tsp.
Marshmallow – 200 g.
Prepare the mastic in a water bath.
Melt butter with marshmallows. Gradually add powdered sugar. You will get a thick, homogeneous mass similar to plasticine. If you immediately add food coloring to it, you will get colored mastic.
This recipe is universal; this mastic is used for sculpting the edges of cakes and for preparing drawings and sculpting figures.
If you have a lot of ready-made light white mastic left, add gel dyes to it, knead well, and it will acquire a rich color.
There is also a recipe for mastic with condensed milk.
Powdered sugar – 165 g.
Condensed milk – 210 g.
Powdered milk – 150 g.
Lemon juice - 2 tsp.
Cognac - to taste
You need to mix the dry ingredients with the liquid ones, roll them into a ball, wrap them in cling film and put them in the refrigerator.
Mickey Mouse cake is prepared using multi-colored fondant in different ways.
They make a multi-tiered cake with Mickey's face on top. They also make a cake in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head. To do this, you need to bake three large cakes and 6 small ones of the same size. The cake will have three layers. Three large cakes are Mickey's head, and three small cakes each make up his left and right ear.
If the delicacy is intended for a girl, you can make a Mini or a loving couple of Mickey and Mini. 
There is also a recipe for Mickey Mouse cake without using fondant.
Dough:
Vodka – 2 tablespoons
Eggs – 3 pieces
Honey – 2 tablespoons
Granulated sugar – 1 cup
Soda – 2 teaspoons
Flour – 3 cups
Butter - 80 g
Cream:
Granulated sugar - 1.5 cups
Eggs - 3 pieces
Milk – 3 glasses
Beat eggs and sugar, add vodka, salt, honey, soda, place in a water bath.
Then add flour. Roll out 9 cakes from the resulting dough - 3 large and 6 small. Bake until received golden color. To prevent the cakes from swelling, they can be pierced with a fork in several places.
To prepare the layer, mix eggs, sugar, milk and flour. Bring to a boil and remove from the burner. You will have a wonderful custard.
Then start assembling the cake.
The large cakes are Mickey's head, the small ones are the ears.
Decorate Mickey's face using chocolate chips.
In any case, it’s up to you to decide which cake to bake; a cake with a cheerful mouse is wonderful in any form!
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For children, cake is the main treat during the holidays. children's day birth. In addition to the fact that it must be tasty, it must also be beautiful. Cartoon characters will delight the little birthday boy and his guests. They can be on plates, glasses, caps, flags and, of course, on the cake.
Almost children all over the world know and love the funny mouse invented by Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie, so a cake decorated with these characters will appeal to little sweet tooths.
Decor in the style of Mickey Mouse can be made from either mastic or cream. Below are recipes for making mastic and cream, as well as descriptions of the process of making and decorating the cake. They will help even a not-so-experienced mother pastry chef bake a cake for the birthday of her beloved daughter or son.
How to make mastic for a cake
Mastic for decorating cakes is made from powdered sugar according to several recipes, using marshmallows, condensed milk, liquid honey, diluted gelatin and others.
Let's consider the most simple recipes mastics with a minimum set of ingredients and do not require long preparation. This is marshmallow mastic based on condensed milk.
For chewing marshmallow mastic you will need:
- 200 g marshmallows (white);
- 500 g powdered sugar;
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice;
- 1 teaspoon butter.
The mastic mixing time will be 20-30 minutes.
Calorie content – 383.6 kcal/100 g.
Work progress:
- Place marshmallows, butter and lemon juice in a saucepan or deep bowl. Then place the vessel with these ingredients in a steam bath;
- When the marshmallows begin to melt, begin to add powdered sugar in portions and knead a lump of a thick, homogeneous mass that will resemble plasticine.
For mastic with condensed milk you need to take:
- 210 g condensed milk;
- 165 g powdered sugar;
- 150 g milk powder;
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice.
To knead the mastic according to this recipe, it will also take no more than half an hour.
Calorie content – 390.2 kcal/100 g.
Cooking process:
- Powdered sugar and milk powder should be mixed together and sifted several times through a sieve. This will make the dry mixture more uniform;
- Then mix the liquid ingredients and add the dry ingredients. Mix everything well into a round lump.
The mastic prepared according to both the first and second recipes should be wrapped in cling film and allowed to rest overnight in the refrigerator. Only after this can you work with it.
To decorate in the style of Mickey Mouse, you will need mastic of several colors: light (beige or white), red or pink and dark (black or chocolate).
The easiest way to color mastic is with gel dyes, but if you don’t have them or you don’t want to add ingredients with a complex chemical composition to the cake, you can use natural dyes. Beige color will come from carrot juice, pink or red from beetroot or cherry juice. A chocolate color can be obtained by adding melted chocolate to the mastic.
Recipe for a cake with Walt Disney characters made from fondant
The cake layers and cream for the Mickey Mouse cake can be any kind, but it will be easier for a novice pastry chef to work with sponge cake layers. Plus, children really like biscuits, and they are prepared from a simple list of ingredients.
So, for sponge cakes you need:
- 7 chicken eggs;
- 200 g granulated sugar;
- 130 g flour;
- 30 g starch;
- 10 g vanilla sugar.
The mastic cake will need to be leveled, so you need a thick cream. It can be butter with powdered sugar, butter with condensed milk or curd and butter. The latter option is more preferable because it is not as fatty as the others, and cottage cheese is good for children.
For the cream you will need:
- 500 g fat cottage cheese;
- 250 g quality butter;
- 200 g of powdered sugar (the amount can be increased or decreased depending on how sour the cottage cheese is).
You can also add seasonal fruits to the creamy filling between the layers.
Preparations for a birthday should begin in advance; two days before the celebration, you need to bake cakes in the evening, prepare cream, mastic and individual elements decor, and the next day start assembling and decorating. In total, all processes may take from 36 to 48 hours.
Calorie content sponge cake 281.5 kcal/100 g.
Work progress:
Mickey Mouse style decor from mastic can be made in several ways:
- Bake a regular round cake, cover it with fondant or line it with cream and decorate it with Mickey Mouse and/or Minnie Mouse figures;
- Bake a cake in the shape of a cartoon mouse's head;
- Decorate the cake with a picture of Mickey Mouse made from fondant.
To make a decoration according to the first option, you need to prepare a mouse figurine and other decorative details from mastic in advance so that they have time to dry a little and do not become deformed when placed on the cake.
Those who are not confident in their sculpting abilities can first practice and try to mold Mickey Mouse with their child from plasticine. If you are satisfied with the result, then you need to stock up on light, dark and red mastic and start sculpting from it.
For the second option - in the form of a Mickey Mouse head, you need to bake a base from one large circle and two smaller ones. To do this you will need two portions of dough. This will be the mouse's head and ears. Then connect all the parts together, slightly trimming the ears at the junction with the head so that they fit snugly. Then cover the cakes with mastic and decorate with additional decorative elements.
For example, multi-colored circles, stars, hearts and more.
For a mastic picture, you need to find and print a picture of Mickey or Minnie Mouse. Then the drawing is cut into separate fragments, which are made in the same color. Then, using these templates, parts of the picture are cut out from thinly rolled out mastic of the appropriate color and connected on the cake into a colored mastic picture.
When working with mastic, you need to remember that starch is used to dust the table and mastic so that it does not stick to the rolling pin and hands.
The remaining starch is subsequently removed with a soft brush, and the mastic on the finished cake is smeared with vodka. This will give it shine. There is no need to worry about the alcohol; it will have time to evaporate before serving.
How to make a Mickey Mouse cake from cream with your own hands
For creamy decor, you can also bake a cake according to your favorite recipe, or you can try something new, for example, “Milk Girl” cakes. They will need:
- 380 g condensed milk;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 20 g baking powder (can be replaced with slaked soda);
- 160 g flour.
The cream for leveling and spreading the cakes is the simplest of whipped cream, for which you need:
- 500 ml heavy cream (at least 33%);
- 150 g powdered sugar.
You can also put fruit in the layer of this cake.
Baking the cake layers, whipping the cake and assembling it will take no more than 1 hour, but the decorating process can take twice as long, depending on the chosen complexity.
The calorie content of 100 g of this cake will be equal to 310.8 kilocalories.
Sequence of actions:
A Mickey Mouse style cream cake can also be made in the shape of a mouse's head or with a cream picture on top.
A head-shaped cake is prepared in the same way as its mastic version, only then it is not covered with mastic, but decorated with cream. To do this, you need to draw a mouse’s face on a blank in dark, beige and red (Mickey Mouse’s tongue or a bow on Minnie’s head).
And to make a cream picture, you first need to print a suitable image on paper, paste it into a file, which should be disinfected with vodka.
Melt chocolate or confectionery glaze in a water bath or in the microwave, transfer it to a parchment cornet, and use liquid chocolate to draw the outlines of the design on the file.
Place the prepared drawing in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes, and then transfer it, chocolate side down, onto a cake lined with cream. Carefully remove the file so that the outline of the design remains on the cake. After this, depositing the cream different colors from a pastry bag, color the picture.
How to decorate a cake in the shape of a cartoon character
When decorating a cake for a children's party, you should not forget that girls prefer Mickey Mouse's friend - Minnie the mouse. And it is more appropriate to use girlish colors for decoration: pink, beige, light shades of green, yellow and others.
To decorate a boy's birthday cake, you should give preference to richer shades of yellow, green, red and blue. The boys will be more happy with Mickey Mouse than with his girlfriend.
If the cake is being prepared for the birthday of a boy and a girl (for example, twins), then you can conditionally divide it into two halves, decorating each in a boyish and girlish style, or you can make the cake in one neutral style, but with Mickey and Minnie figures.
But when choosing how to decorate the cake, you should not forget to consult with your child and find out what the birthday boy himself wants. Only under this condition will it be possible to arrange an unforgettable holiday for your child.
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