Frozen's Elsa Cake

My niece turned 6 in January. She’s been a Frozen fanatic and she’ll have Frozen-themed birthday party :). That’s when I was commissioned to make Elsa cake. It would be my first doll cake and I was psyched! Her dad got me the doll of choice. As I see it, the most important thing for this cake was the curvature of the cake skirt. It had to be the right size and ballooned at the right place so it doesn’t look droopy and what not. And I had to make enough cake to make up the height for her super long legs. Her waist to her toe measured 7.5”!!

In order to meet that, I made two 8”x1.5” rounds and one 5 Qt bowl. With frosting layers, it should make up the height. After all the baking was done, here were the steps to assemble Elsa (besides whipping up white & frosty blue buttercream):

1. I made a hole at the center of all the cakes. I had a circle cutter just big enough to fit her butt, perfect. 
2. Stack the cakes in this order, from bottom to top: 8” round, buttercream, 8” round, buttercream, and dome from 5qt bowl.
3. Crumb coat with thin layer of buttercream.
4. Let the construction chill in fridge for 15min or so.
5. Apply the buttercream layer. Smooth it with spatula dipped in hot water.
6. Remove the skirt and wrap the legs with platic. Also, keep her arms and cape raised up so they don’t get in a way of the frosting.
7. Insert Elsa into the cake dress.

      After adding snowflakes and frills all around, there you have it! The real pay-off was the note of my niece loving it! So so so glad! Happy birthday E ♥!!

Our Wedding Cakes

Wow, it’s been so long, way overdue! I didn’t think it would happen to me but I guess post-wedding “fappy” got the best of me. You don’t plan for these things and I’m completely guilty! I have a lot of catching up to do.

I can’t believe it’s already been 6 months since the wedding. How time flies! It was a beautiful evening surrounded by family and friends. Logistically, everything went as planned and I was like the first unstressed bride ever. I hugely owe this to our friends who went out of their way to help us before, during and after the wedding. All the decorations were DIY. I have too much of that DIY-bug, y’know ;).  Cake was no exception. I know it was going to be demanding. At minimum, assembly had to be done no earlier than the day before the big day. But I knew even better that I was marrying the right man! Day before the big day, we had to haul all our decorations to the venue. Mr took total control. I was left alone in the kitchen and was able to focus on assembling the cakes without interruption. And hallelujah, I cranked out four 10” cakes happily and safely. Amazing!

In coming up with the designs, requirements were; 1) theme was to be rustic wedding in the garden setting and 2) total serving would be ~100. I didn't want to do tiered cake because I don't have experience with it. No wedding will be a guinea pig, mine or otherwise! If I make 10" rounds, I'd have to make 4. 

After much pondering, here were the final menu:

• Vanilla cake with coconut frosting. This had the cutest bride & groom cake topper.
• Matcha green tea cake with green field sidewall. Cake topper was the birds' nest.
• Chocolate cake with hearts on the sidewall. I made one heart to be pink ;).
• Naked cake incorporating all 3 flavors above. I kept this cake a no-frill.

So there you have it! I really can't thank everyone enough for making my dream come true of making my own wedding cake!