The Ariel cake was chocolate cake with strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream and strawberry crispearls. The "ocean" was the same buttercream tinted blue and had a few seaweeds, flowers, and pearls throughout. The fin and scales were piped with green buttercream.
The Rapunzel cake was chocolate cake with chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream and milk chocolate crispearls. Under the fondant dress was dark chocolate ganache. It was a triple chocolate combo!
Transporting the cakes was fun... I had to actually hold the Ariel cake, since it was stuck on the cake stand. Rapunzel sat in a box, so no worries there. Good thing our friend didn't live that far.
The only thing I didn't really like about the doll cake pan (I've only used it once before) was the baking time. My chocolate cake is pretty moist, so I was afraid of burning it by leaving it in the oven longer than the recommended time of the pan's manual. Having said that, the concern was whether the cake would slide easily out of the pan without leaving any cake stuck to the sides.
I was happy that the girls and everyone loved the cakes... this will be the end of doll cakes for a while...
Happy 4th Birthday, Clara & Giuliana!
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