Tangled Cake fit for a princess

I love how this cake turned out but let me tell you I had many sleepless nights trying to decide how to design the tower.  I ended up making it out of Rice Crispy Treats so that it would be strong and sturdy.

Things needed to create this cake:
Baked cake ( you will need two different sizes of pans to make the two tiers.  Bake two cake levels for each tier)
Butter cream
Rice treats
Wooden rods
Forms to create tower pieces, a cylinder, cube, and cone
Sugar flowers and butterflies
Purple fondant

Bake your cake layers and allow to cool completely.  Build your layers by filling the centers with a filling and put a layer of frosting around the layers.  Place the cakes into the fridge so that the cake and butter cream can harden up (at least for an hour)

These are the two levels with the filling showing.  I added fun colors so when the cake is cut into the colors would show.


While the cake levels are setting in the fridge begin making your rice treats.  I found different forms in my kitchen to create the shapes I needed.  I used a funnel for the top of the tower, a square lemon dish for the tower body, and a tall skinny glass for the tower. Once your Rice treats are mixed press them into your forms and place into the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

 

You will need four wooden rods to make sure the cake and tower remain standing.  Start to build your cake: Stack your cake tiers, then center the cylinder rice treat on the top, run two wooden rods down the center of the rice treat and cake tiers, add a little frosting to the top of the cylinder treat, add the square treat, add frosting to the top of that treat, add the cone shape treat on top, and finish by running two more rods down the center of all the treats.

 



 

Place this stage back into the fridge for 10 mins.

 

Time to start frosting your cake.  Start to create the colors of frosting you will need.  For the cake tiers you will need a med. green and a lighter green. The tower you will need pink, dark brown, yellow, light brown, and white.

You will want to frost the tower first before the cake tiers.  Start from the top to the bottom.

Cone: frost with white because you will be adding fondant circles later, make sure to cover to make it smooth

Cube: frost pink make it thick enough to not tell its rice treats under. Smooth well on all four sides and square off the corners as best as you can

Cylinder: frost yellow but add a little light brown to give it a stone look. This level does not have to be smooth as you are going for a stone look and texture.

Cake tiers: use the light green to cover both tiers and smooth out as best as you can

 

The picture above does not follow the color formula I just laid out. But I did this first and then had to change it. So this is a lesson learned for me as well. :)

Add to the fridge again to allow this layer of frosting to harden.

 

You will now start to decorate your cake.  I started from the bottom and moved upward to the top of the tower.  Use the med. green frosting to make the vines and leaves Two piping bags are needed: one with tip 2 and the other with tip 67.  Tip 67 is for leaves which you will want to make a boarder of leaves on the bottom tier.  Then begin to create vines and add leaves here and there.  Once both tiers are designed add sugar flowers and butterflies.

 

Now it is time to move to the tower.  This will take patience so move slowly. Add your dark brown frosting to a piping bag with tip 2. Create the detail on the body of the tower: a window on each side, railings, and a boarder.  Then add vines, leaves, and small sugar flowers.  In one window you will want to make Rapunzel.

I used white frosting to create her face and little hands. Added a little pink for her lips, dark brown for eyes, and yellow for her hair.

 

Great job!! You are now to the last big step Purple fondant work. 

You will need a very small circle fondant cutter.  Roll out your purple fondant and begin to cut out a ton of circles.   Start at the bottom of the cone and work around the circle.  Each layer should start in a stacked look as it looks like in the picture below.

 

I added sliver edible glitter mixed with water to give the fondant a pretty look.  Add a few vines and flowers to the top of the tower.  Done!! Place in the fridge to harden the detail work. 

Now you have a Tangled cake that any little girl would love as her own!!!