One more Frozen cake

You have to hand it to Disney.  They know how to hook the wee ones with their movies.  When my daughter was young, it was The Little Mermaid.  Now, my granddaughter is 6, and she is obsessed with the movie Frozen.  When I say she is obsessed, I mean it.  The girl is hardcore.  She is about as girlie as they come.  She loves to play dress-up and wear a tiara.  She recites the movie when she is playing with her dolls like she is re-enacting the movie.  Then comes the singing.....oh, the singing.  It's actually more like screaming...like those of you on the West Coast need to hear her singing in order for the world to stay on its axis.  There are arm motions and choreography to go along with the vocals.

So...my granddaughter turned 6 in mid November.  When I asked her what kind of cake she wanted, she looked at me with that tilted head and her hand on her hip and said "Oh Mimi, you know I want a Disney Frozen cake."  As if there might actually be other Frozen merchandise out there, she feels she needs to specify that it's Disney Frozen.

I asked my daughter to sit down with my granddaughter and decide what they wanted to see on the cake and they were more than happy to comply.  Of course Elsa was on the top, of course it was blue, of course there were sparkly bits.

I was actually pretty excited to make this cake because it gave me the opportunity to try some new techniques.  I did cheat and got the actual dolls to add to the cake as I was not going to take the time or the chance actually that I would not get the look right.  The 6 year-old would call me out in a heartbeat....just as she had when she turned 4 and I made cupcakes with frosting the color of all the Disney princess dresses and I happened to forget the green one, whomever she may be.  Ugh..the innocence of youth.

Anyway...this was the final product.  She loved it.  The other little girls at her party loved it.  I was once again a rock star in my granddaughter's world.....which is the absolute best place to be.

Doc McStuffins cake for 5th birthday

Each year, my granddaughter asks me to make her birthday cake.  This year's request was for a Doc McStuffins cake.  It has been quite a long time since I have watched television for the little ones.  I had no idea what a Doc McStuffins was.  I did some research and found out some details.  It's a really cute show!

Something you should know about my granddaughter is she just turned 5, but inside this girl is trapped a 25 year-old woman.  Nothing gets past this child.  Last year, she asked for Disney Princesses for her birthday.  I made her a small cake with a tiara and then made cupcakes in all the colors of the princesses gowns.  I then added some coarse sugar to make them sparkle.  Well, long story short, she was thrilled with her cake and her cupcakes, but then told me how I missed a princess in the cupcakes.  Apparently, there is a princess from the movie Tangled that I did not know about.

Anyway, I'm getting off track.  I did feel a bit of pressure as I started to put the pieces together for this cake.  I am completely self taught, so the thought of making figures for the cake made me quiver.  There are things I would do differently in hind sight; but overall, I am pretty proud of this cake.

The bottom and middle tiers are 3 layers each alternating white cake and chocolate cake.  Cheater alert:  I used box cakes.  They were on sale at the grocery store, and I add thing to them to boost them up a bit.  The top layer, the medical bag, is a total of 4 layers...all vanilla dyed to be purple and pink.