October 28, 2007

  • Making the cake

    The Dora cake took ten different colors--eleven if you count the two blues, one thinned with corn syrup for spreading across the entire cake.  Prep bowls were perfect for mixing and storing icing colors!

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    Photos of Chelsea decorating the cake

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    That was all we got before people started arriving, LOL!  So here's the skinny on how I did it.  First I printed a Dora coloring sheet from the Nick Jr. website.  Then I went to the Wilton cake decorating website and printed the instructions for decorating the cake you can make in their Dora cake pan (which I didn't use).  Next I traced the Dora pattern onto waxed paper and cut it out.  Then I took a toothpick and poked holes all along the lines of the pattern.  I iced the cake (which had been frozen, had the top cut off to make it level, and brushed with a pastry brush to remove crumbs) on the top and the sides and put it in the refrigerator to set up with a crust.  Then I placed the waxed paper Dora on the cake and used toothpicks to make small holes in the icing along the outside and in all the holes I had punched before.  Then I just followed the directions from the Wilton web page, outlining and icing in their directed colors.  Total, it took probably 2-3 hours, but I also didn't really know what I was doing, and I only had one icing tip #16, which you use to make all the stars, so I had to wash it out each time.  The finished product is below!