April 2010 Mickey Party

I am a amateur cake decorator who decided that I wanted to create a cake for my son's second Birthday Party. Once I found the cake I wanted to create, I then said to myself, "I should create the invitations and everything else myself." I found myself doing more than I bargained for, but I got it done, with the help of a few friends of course (thank you Carol And Jannet). It was a Mickey Mouse Theme.



Here is the cake I created. It was the second time I had ever made a cake. I seen a picture of it online and decided to do it. It looked pretty simple. Its not perfect but I loved it. I made the ears two days in advance with fondant to allow it to dry. I made four circles then put two together with a toothpick in the middle.

I started planning by searching how to create invitations. I found this idea by accident and decided to create it. My husband bought me a sewing machine on black Friday and has been waiting to be used. I wanted to take on a new hobby and have never sewn anything. I bought black and red card stock and learned to sew it together. I glued on buttons with a hot glue gun. Then on publisher I created the ticket (it was also the first time I used publisher). To top it off I added a picture of my son in it as well. If you decide to create something like this you must keep in mind of finding an envelope. I had trouble finding a square envelope that would fit the invite. I had to buy envelopes on ebay and it required two stamps to send out. I sent out like 25 so it came to be pricy.

Since I decided on Mickey Mouse, I wanted to keep everything red and black with an occasional yellow. These are the goody bags I created for the children. I got red sandwich bags from a local party store and had left over card stock from the invites to use for the mickey silhouette. I used a pledge bottle for the large circle and an eye cream cap for the ears. I thought this was cute and simple.

I looked around for centerpieces and I found some nice ones at the local party store and thought they were too much, about six dollars each. They were made of cardboard with mickey and the gang. So, I decided to make my own to save money, but I spent about the same amount. I went to downtown L.A. and got six buckets (3 reds and 3 blacks), two sizes of Styrofoam balls (for mickey), Styrofoam stars, ribbon, and tissue paper and with a couple of hours this was created.

Practice Cake:

I learned to do so gumpaste flowers and made this cake for Easter