It's November already? Whew...just realized I haven't posted since July! Oh my, I better get busy. November brings my granddaughter's birthday. Last year, she asked for Princess cupcakes. This year, she asked for a Doc McStuffins cake. Uh oh....what is a Doc McStuffins? After some extensive research on Google and Pinterest, I had my plan ready to go.
Time to bake...and bake and bake and bake! The bottom and middle tiers each had 3 layers. The bottom had 2 vanilla (white) and 1 chocolate. The middle tier had 2 chocolate and 1 vanilla. The top tier, which was sculpted to resemble the character's medical bag, was vanilla with a little food coloring to be pink and purple layers. I also found some edible glitter for the top of medical bag.
I got my tiers crumb coated. I debated whether or not to cover all of the tiers with fondant. I am relatively new to the whole fondant thing, and I didn't want to take a chance, so I just used buttercream. I did cover the top tier with fondant because of the medical bag decorations. Next up, molding the characters. I had gone to Michael's to look for some baking staples and found moldable dough. Oh my goodness is that they best! You can check it out here...
http://www.michaels.com/Shape-%27n-Amaze-Decorating-Dough/bk1421,default,pd.html?cgid=products-bakeware.
Today was my granddaughter's party. I took the cake in 3 sections. I do not trust myself to construct a cake before I leave home and then drive it an hour to its destination. We get to my daughter's house and I start construction. My granddaughter is jumping up and down next to me as she sees the characters go on her cake. I feel like a total rock star. All those hours of baking and molding were definitely worth it.
Here's the final product...
