Disney Descendants Cake and Cookies

23 Monday May 2016

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Disney Descendants, double chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, royal icing, Sour cream vanilla cake, sugar cookies, vanilla buttercream

Loved making this cake and cookie combo for a sweet little girl who turned 6 this past weekend…her party theme was Disney Descendants.

I must admit I didn’t know much about the Descendants movie and characters until I did a Descendants cake for Gianna last year .

Arianna’s cake was a 2-layer, 10″ square sour cream vanilla and double chocolate cake, iced with vanilla bean buttercream. The details are a combo of homemade marshmallow fondant and royal icing.

I piped the heart, crown and Maleficent horns onto waxed paper and let them dry overnight, then transferred them to the iced cake….it was infinitely easier than cutting those small details out of fondant… The lettering , mirror, and apple were hand cut from fondant.

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The cookies I did in 3 different designs to match the cake…

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Happy birthday, Arianna! Hope you had a great one…I sure enjoyed making your treats! :0)

Disney Descendants Birthday Cake

02 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by Laurie in Cakes

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cookies and cream, cream cheese frosting, Disney Descendants, double chocolate cake, homemade marshmallow fondant, Italians cream cake, ombre buttercream, vanilla-bean frosting

I had never heard of Disney Descendants until asked to make this cake last October. The mom called and wanted a special cake for her daughter’s 7th birthday, which had a Disney Descendants theme. She didn’t want any of the Disney figures on the cake, but liked the red, pink, purple, black and neon green color scheme of the characters. I hand-cut the apple, plaque, letters and other details from homemade marshmallow fondant. The rolled fondant roses are made from Wilton red fondant.

The cake is 2-tier, chocolate cake with cookies cream filling (9″ tier) and Italian cream cake (6″ tier) and covered with vanilla buttercream (bottom) and cream cheese buttercream (top). The icing is colored to create an ombré effect going from darker to lighter, bottom to top. The bottom shell border and vines are piped with dark purple buttercream; the leaves are piped using neon green buttercream. I sprinkled some gold sanding sugar on top just to add some sparkle.