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Miniature Cakes

These Baby Cakes Make A Big Impact!

They say the best things in life come in SMALL packages, and these Miniature Cakes don’t disappoint! YoYos, I present to you - The Connie, The Jocelyn, The Jeremy, The Orhan and The Yolanda! They may be small, but they’re pretty SWEET! And just like our LEAN team at How To Cake It, these baby cakes prove you can make a BIG impact no matter your SIZE.

To make these Miniature Cakes, I baked my Ultimate Chocolate Cake, layered each tier with multi-coloured Italian Meringue Buttercream, covered the cakes in beautiful white, pink, teal and marble fondant and decorated them with their own individual FLAIR!

PS - These cakes are also the perfect way to introduce yourself to working with fondant and are especially great for special events, birthday parties and fun sweet tables!

Watch me cake 5 Mini Cakes in my latest Youtube video here!

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Baking The Cake:

Yo’s Ultimate Chocolate Cake

Icing The Cake:

Simple Syrup

Italian Meringue Buttercream

Pink Food Colouring

Teal Food Colouring

Yellow Food Colouring

Decorating The Cake:

White Fondant

Pink Fondant

Teal Fondant

Black Fondant

Yellow Fondant

Lustre Dust

Food Grade Alcohol

Clear Piping Gel

Gumpaste

Royal Icing

Pearls

Item Name:	Availability:
Rectangular Pan
Sir Squeeze A-Lot	Add to Cart - $19.99
Circle Cutter Set	Add to Cart - $24.99
Mixing Bowls
Fondant Rolling Pin	Add to Cart - $64.99
Clay Extruder	Add to Cart - $64.99
Ball Tool	Add to Cart - $64.99
Heart Plunger Cutter
Flower Plunger Cutter
Star Plunger Cutter
Floral Sponge
Floral Wire
Brushes
Offset Spatula	Add to Cart - $14.99
Plastic Spatula	Add to Cart - $14.99
Fabric Measuring Tape
Toothpicks

Cut Circles

To create 5 baby cakes, bake one recipe of Yo’s Ultimate Chocolate Cake in a rectangular pan. Level the cake and use a circle cutter set to create five 3” circles, five 2 ¼” circles, and five 1 ½” circles.

Simple Syrup

Pour simple syrup with Sir Squeeze A-lot on all the baby cakes.

Layer Cakes

Cut all 15 baby cakes in to two layers.

Add Colour to Buttercream

Spoon buttercream into three separate bowls and create pink, teal and yellow buttercream with food colouring.

Fill Layers With Buttercream

Add buttercream to each tier. Add vanilla buttercream to 2 cakes and pink, yellow and teal buttercream to one cake per colour.

Crumb Coat and Chill

Crumb coat and chill the cakes with the same coloured buttercream they were layered with.

Note: Cakes this small are very delicate and may be unstable when you use your spatula. You’ll want to go about it with a light hand.

Ice the Cakes

Now that the cakes have been chilled, ice the cakes one more time and chill again.

Drape the Cakes In White Fondant

Roll white fondant to about 1/16” and drape it over the chocolate cakes that have been covered in pink and yellow buttercream. Drape pink fondant over one of the chocolate cakes that was covered in white buttercream. Then smooth the fondant with a fondant smoother and cut the excess from the bottom.

Note: Put a chocolate cake covered in teal buttercream and a chocolate cake covered in white buttercream aside for later.

Create Marbled Fondant

To create a marble effect with fondant roll black, yellow and white fondant together. This is the same technique I used for my Mother’s Day Vase Cake with different colours. Cover the chocolate cake tiers that have been covered in teal icing with the marbled fondant.

Note: To see how I did this step, please see the video here

Assemble the Connie Cake

Use an offset spatula to stack three tiers of chocolate cake have been iced with white Italian Meringue Buttercream.

Note: These chocolate cake tiers should not have fondant on them.

Create Sugar Flowers

Roll out a thin layer of pink gumpaste and use flower plunger cutters in different sizes to cut out the flowers. Lay the flowers on a floral sponge and use a ball tool to accentuate the petals.

Note: To see how I did this step, please see the video here

Create a Cake Topper

Create a cake topper by adding a few flowers to a round circle of gumpaste with royal icing.

Note to see how I did this see the video here

Create Sugar Petals

Use a round piping tip, to cut out petals from a thin layer of gumpaste. Lay the petals on a flower sponge and use a ball tool to round out the petals.

Paint the Flowers

Once the gumpaste flowers and petals are dry, paint them gently with pink lustre dust.

Decorate the Connie Cake With Petals

Place the flowers and petals to the cake with piping gel.

Note: To see how I did this, please see the video here

Create Hearts

Roll out a thin layer of pink, yellow and teal fondant and use plunger cutters to cut out 3 different sizes of hearts in each colour.

Decorate the Jocelyn Cake Tiers

Use a fabric measuring tape to add the hearts around the centre of 3 chocolate cake tiers that have each been covered in white fondant.

Create a Unicorn Horn

Roll a small cord of pink, yellow and teal fondant together and wrap the cords around a small toothpick like a spiral. Trim any excess fondant from the bottom of the toothpick and set aside to let dry.

Note: To see how I did this, please see the video here

Assemble the Jocelyn Cake

Use a small offset spatula to add the cake tiers on top of each other. Use royal icing to secure the tiers together.

Seal the Layers With a Cord

Use a clay extruder to create a thin, pink, yellow and teal cord. Add one cord per layer using piping gel. Cut away the excess.

Place the Unicorn Horn

Place the unicorn horn on top of the cake by pushing the toothpick into the top tier.

Decorate the Jeremy Cake

To start the Jeremy Cake, stack 3 tiers of chocolate cake that have been covered in white fondant one on top of the other using royal icing to secure each level. Secure the seams by piping royal icing between the tiers and smoothing them with a wet paint brush to seal.

Note: To see how I did this please see the video here

Create Paint

Create the paint by mixing black, pink food colouring with clear food grade alcohol. For silver paint, mix lustre dust with clear food grade alcohol.

Splatter Paint on Cake

Splatter the cake with one colour of paint at a time using various size brushes.

Note: To see how I did this, please see the video here

Create an Abstract Topper

Roll different size decorative balls of pink and black fondant. Add decorative balls to the cake using clear piping gel.

Decorate the Orhan Cake

To decorate the Orhan Cake decorate each tier of chocolate cake draped in pink fondant individually before stacking them. Use a fabric measuring tape to divide the cake evenly. Use a knife to mark the points around the cake.

Note: To see how I did this, see video here

Create Fondant Cords

Use a clay extruder to create thin cords of white fondant.

Outline the Design

Use a small circle cutter to outline the design in between the markings that were already made in the pink fondant.

Note: To see how I did this, please see the video here

Create a Piping Effect

Drape thin cords of white fondant with clear piping gel using the markings made with the circle cutters as a template. Add a second layer of white fondant cords to each cake and trim the excess fondant where the cords meet on top of the cakes.

Note: To see how I did this, please see video here

Stack Layers

Stack each tier using royal icing to secure the cake.

Seal the Seams

Seal the seams by piping a thin beaded border of royal icing around the bottom of each tier. Pipe the bottom tier after it has been moved to a cake stand to avoid messing up the design.

Create the Candle

Roll white gumpaste over a floral wire and cut to length. Roll a small ball of yellow gumpaste into the shape a flame. Once the candle has dried, place it on top of the cake.

Add Pearl Beads

Add pearl beads where the cords of fondant meet. Secure them with royal icing.

Decorate the Yolanda Cake

Create gold paint by mixing lustre dust with food grade alcohol. Take the cake tiers draped in the marble fondant and accentuate the design by outlining the marbled colours with a thin brush. Paint as much or as little gold paint as desired. Set cakes aside to let paint dry.

Create Stars

Use star shaped plunger cutters to cut different sized stars out of yellow gumpaste. Let gumpaste stars dry and then paint them gold with lustre dust.

Assemble the Yolanda Cake

Once the cake tiers and the gumpaste stars are dry, stack the tiers and place the stars on the cake using royal icing to secure them. Make sure to put the biggest star at the top of the cake.

Cut Circles

Simple Syrup

Layer Cakes

Add Colour to Buttercream

Fill Layers With Buttercream

Crumb Coat and Chill

Ice the Cakes

Drape the Cakes In White Fondant

Create Marbled Fondant

Assemble the Connie Cake

Create Sugar Flowers

Create a Cake Topper

Create Sugar Petals

Paint the Flowers

Decorate the Connie Cake With Petals

Create Hearts

Decorate the Jocelyn Cake Tiers

Create a Unicorn Horn

Assemble the Jocelyn Cake

Seal the Layers With a Cord

Place the Unicorn Horn

Decorate the Jeremy Cake

Create Paint

Splatter Paint on Cake

Create an Abstract Topper

Decorate the Orhan Cake

Create Fondant Cords

Outline the Design

Create a Piping Effect

Stack Layers

Seal the Seams

Create the Candle

Add Pearl Beads

Decorate the Yolanda Cake

Create Stars

Assemble the Yolanda Cake

Congratulations!