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Frozen Dessert Table

Emme’s birthday was coming up and as she has started dancing lessons this year I had visions of a pretty pink ballerina cake, pink and white decorations, and a lovely pink dessert table.  I had pins stuck onto my Pinterest board and was getting excited about her birthday party. Well……all of that went out the window when Emme received an invite to a Frozen birthday party!!!  So it was no longer a pretty pink ballerina party, as she also wanted a Frozen party……arghhhhhhh.  So my visions of pink were replaced with blue.

She also wanted a buttercream swirl cake with snowflakes on it, just like her friend had.  So after a bit of compromising we ended up with two cakes…..the one I wanted and the one she wanted.

The fondant cake was a 5” chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and then covered in fondant.  For the icicles I used my extruder, which is a life saver but still a time consuming job putting them on.  As you can see figurines are not my strong point, and I struggle with getting the right proportions. That is why I went for something a bit more cartoon/caricature style.

The buttercream cake was a 7” white chocolate cake covered in ombre rose swirls.  This turned out to be an expensive cake as I ended up breaking my scrapper blade when I started to cream the butter!!  I had softened the butter, but after starting the mixer it went around once, made a snapping noise and the blade broke.  So it was a rush to find another blade in the cupboard.  Then I had a bit of a colour mix up with the top layer of rose swirls.  As you can see it is more green than light blue.  This is due to New Zealand butter been very yellow, due to our cows been grass fed.  So if you mix yellow and a little bit of blue, of course you get green!!!  I was halfway around the top layer when Emme asked “Why’s the top green Mummy?”  Opps I was in such a rush I hadn’t even noticed, and with the party in about an hour I was not going to scrap it off and start again!!!

The snowflakes were made with fondant mixed with a bit of tylose (CMC).  I made these a couple of days prior to the party so they could harden up.  You need to make them at least the night before (the longer the better), otherwise they might start to soften when you place them on the buttercream.

Emme dressed up in her Frozen costume in front of her dessert table.


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Miriam Hancock

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