Glittery pink goodness! Who doesn’t love alicorns or mermaids? The perfect birthday cake for any mermaid or alicorn enthusiast.
Mermaid Alicorn Birthday Cake
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
40 minutes
Additional Time:
30 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 10 minutes
Vanilla sponge cake with strawberry cream cheese buttercream, Mermaid Alicorns and Mermaid Eight.
Ingredients
- 2 Batches of Sponge Cake
- 3 Batches of Strawberry Cream Cheese Buttercream
- 300 grams of Pink Glitter Mirror Glaze
- Small amount of Simple Syrup
Chocolate or Candy Melt Mermaid Alicorns & Mermaid eight
- 100 grams of White Chocolate or Candy Melts
- Gold Food Colouring Powder
- Chocolate Food Colouring: Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue & Purple
Instructions
- Place the template onto a cutting board and cover it with a sheet of acetate.
- Melt the chocolate or Candy Melts in a heat proof bowl on top of a saucepan with a small layer of water in it, on medium heat. Heat each colour of chocolate separately until it has melted completely.
- Use chocolate food colouring or food colouring powder to create the right colours.
- Using a toothpick or a piping bag, trace and fill in the design with the right chocolate colours.
- Refrigerate to set the chocolates.
- Cut seven cake circles (?14cm)
- Brush with simple syrup.
- Attach the bottom cake layer to a cake board with strawberry cream cheese buttercream.
- Pipe or spread strawberry cream cheese buttercream on top.
- Add another layer of cake on top.
- Repeat the last two steps, ending with a cake layer.
- Crumb coat the entire cake.
- Refrigerate for about 30 minutes, until set.
- Cover the entire cake in strawberry cream cheese buttercream.
- Refrigerate for 60 minutes, until fully set.
- Heat pink glitter mirror glaze, per packaging instructions.
- Pour glaze over cake, set on a rack to let the excess drip off.
- Refrigerate for 60 minutes.
- Place cake onto clean cake board.
- Add mermaid alicorns and mermaid eight as decorations.