
Doing it that way prevented the unsightly space between the bow and the cake, right? Right! But when I sat that pink bow on the top pink tier, I was in awe disbelief for the mistake I made. I did have to alter the design to make it my own and not a copy. Learned my lesson before when making bows, so this time I let it set to harden the way it is going to sit in the cake. Her request were straight forward and simple. Her mom sent me a photo for cake inspiration. The cake above was made for Ella’s first birthday. Design elements almost always include Minnie’s bow, Minnie’s ears, polka dots either in white or black. Matter of fact, all these three cakes that I made were for their first birthday. Usual Minnie Mouse colors are red, white and black although pink and white are popular too. If you don’t have experience with fondant you can see the coating technique I used here.Minnie Mouse Cakes are pretty popular as birthday cake for little ones turning one.


The technique I use is a mix of everything I learnt from many bakers but I adapt it to the shape and materials I wanted to use for this cake. The ‘trick’ is actually very straightforward and it doesn’t require any special baking skills or advanced kitchen tools. Surprisingly, the technique for this cake is actually not complicated at all. I searched online for some surprise inside mickey mouse birthday cake designs but couldn’t find any. However, making this easy mickey mouse cake and adding the surprise WOW factor was so simple! I actually had a plan B in case the cake wasn’t a success, infact nobody would see it!).

We had planned a very small gathering with only a few friends to celebrate her birthday, so if the mickey mouse fondant cake didn’t turn out well not many people would end up seeing it, lol! ( P.S. I thought it was the perfect occasion to try and make a surprise-inside cake. With my girl’s birthday approaching I wanted to bake a small mickey mouse cake.

I have always wanted to try one of the surprises inside cakes but they seemed a bit complicated, requiring more than the basic baking skill level which I am at. Is there anything better than a surprise? 2 Surprise inside baby mickey mouse cake.
