Where To Order Toy Story Fondant Birthday Cake

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This adorable Toy Story Birthday block is a perfect pick for your Toy Story fan complete with personalized Toy story toppers.

Toy story fondant block

My daughter Amanda and her married man Nathan are both splendid cooks. They have contributed Grilled Chicken Corn Blackness bean salsa and Nathans Italian Manner Hamburgers, some KETO recipes and a few other posts to our blog.

Amanda and Nathan have made fondant cakes for every ane of their four children's birthdays. Each child gets a especially themed fondant cake themed just for them.

Dane, a Buzz Lightyear fan, will recollect his parent's love for him, his Buzz Lightyear doll, and know he LOVED Toy story when he was two. And he gets to continue the absurd toy story figures.

It's a big delivery to take on Toy Story Cake from scratch. Amanda spread the work out over a few days to keep it achievable.

UPDATE: Amanda is now using a cake mix hack for her fondant cakes to help reduce the work and time involved. That will brand this projection a lot more approachable.

Amanda has fabricated MANY of these wonderful cake gifts for her children.

TOY STORY Cake TUTORIAL:

Working with fondant is like playing in really cool, edible play-dough, grown up way. This is a very free form experience. Amanda and Nathan found Toy story cake pictures and went for information technology.

Please read this Entire tutorial before yous begin. Assemble the ingredients and tools you need before you begin this process.

I accept put links in for the tools, but about whatever hobby shop or local Walmart will carry the supplies you need for this.

There are a few chapter links scattered near this post for your convenience. Ordering from these links volition not price y'all more than money; simply will bring me a penny or two so thank you!

YOU Volition NEED A DOUBLE BATCH OF THE ten INCH AND 6 INCH LAYERS. Yet, The toy story cake needs only 3 10 inch layers and then y'all will accept ane thin 10 inch layer for taste testing.

That is also included in the nutritional information. So you can breathe like shooting fish in a barrel. You lot are consuming less calories than it says yous are 🙂

Amanda made the cakes a day ahead. She wrapped them tightly in plastic wrap and stored them in the fridge to reduce the work on decorating day.

Tips for the cake:

This block requires three 10 inch layers and three six inch layers. Then you volition need i 10 inch and one half-dozen inch cake pan to broil the correct sized layers. Brand two 10 inch and ii 6 inch cakes.

You demand a firm, even textured cake when stacking this many layers. A pound cake weight cake will back up the weight of the cake tiers and frosting.
A really soft textured spongy cake (Amanda's choice was borderline) volition sink into itself and not concord the shape correctly.
The cake may exist wrapped after it'south cooled and stored in the refrigerator a day alee if desired. Make sure your cake is broiled well and thoroughly chilled to help information technology support the weight of the fondant, frosting and block.

This is one of the layers for the toy story cake. Later it will exist sliced in half lengthwise to make two layers. Find that is has strength for stability.

The Frosting:

The Peanut Butter Buttercream frosting recipe Amanda used needed to be cooled somewhat to help hold the shape of a large several layer cake.

Amanda cooled her frosting in the refrigerator to house information technology upwards since it is flavorful but it'south a chip soft for our purposes.

Buttercream with a firmer consistency will hold the cake layers without squishing. This peanut butter frosting Kayti used for her Reeses peanut Butter Cupcakes is stiffer and more supportive.

Y'all will need a double batch of frosting. Cool it in the fridge if necessary to help it stiffen.

Amanda Chose to use Reeses minis candy, chopped in between the layers to add more peanut butter chocolate flavor and crunchy texture. Can you say DECADENT?

TOY STORY Altogether CAKE PREP AND ASSEMBLY:

Ready to outset.

Brand the cake alee, then the frosting and chop the processed.
Slice the block layers in one-half, horizontally to make three layers for both the lesser 10 inch base of operations and the six inch topper. You will accept an actress thin x inch layer and and extra 6 inch layer for gustatory modality testing 🙂
Identify the layers on the paper-thin pieces.

Use any cardboard to make a 10 inch, and a 6 inch circle.
Place the cardboard nether the cake layers to help with the cakes stability when the layers are moved and assembled.

Fill between the layers with frosting and chopped candy.
Stacking the Cakes Layers requires getting them centered correctly. Don't let the layers slide to the sides or your cake will have a wobbly await.
Frost the cake sides and peak . Annotation: the candy goes Merely betwixt the layers, not on the cake layer top. That is frosting and fondant only!

Cut ii total size layers, horizontally in one-half to create 3 thin layers. You will take one thin layer leftover!

Crumb coat the cake .

COMPLETING AND DECORATING THE TOY STORY CAKE:

Buy the fondant in bricks. Amanda used Wilton's fondant.

The Fondant is divided colored and rolled out in batches for decorating the cake. You will demand to color the fondant according to your 'plan' for the cake theme. Hither are the color gels Amanda used.

Exact measurements of the fondant don't really work here. Merely offset with a brick of fondant and use what you demand. Amanda bought one brick of fondant to decorate this cake.

Nathan colored and rolled all the fondant for this block. Information technology requires a bit of muscle!

After the cake is nibble coated, it'due south fourth dimension for the fondant.

lift your rolled sheet of fondant and mantle it carefully over the block so it is centered and evenly draped.

Coil out a sheet of white fondant large enough to cover the block with some extra.

Drape the rolled fondant evenly over the frosted, crumb coated block

After smoothing the fondant, cut off the excess

To create the bottom layer cowhide await.

Smooth the fondant evenly over the block with the fondant smoothing tools.
Cut off the excess around the bottom border of the cake.
Utilise a exacto knife or cookie cutter to cut out irregular shapes for the moo-cow hibernate spots.
Identify them all over the outside and top outer edge of the bottom layer.
The bottom layer is gear up for the top layer when it looks something like this.

For the Top Layer:

Color the fondant like to the bluish color
Shine the fondant over the crumb coated top
Cut off the backlog fondant effectually the bottom edge.

Coloring Fondant is easy. Only work the desired color into the fondant in a bowl and work it with your easily, like playdough to distribute the color evenly throughout the fondant.
Cut out several cloud shapes with a Cloud cookie cutter and place them around the sides and hugging the acme edge of the top.

Toy Story Block Finishing touches:

employ a measuring tape to cut out the fence pieces and keep the lines straight.

For the fence: (bottom layer)

Colour fondant chocolate-brown and gyre information technology out.
Cutting the brown fondant into two long strips and several short ones.
Press the fondant strips into the wood texture mold to create the wooden impressions on the fence pieces.
Adhere the long strips around the cake equally shown and then the short sections to make the fence.

For the braid around the bottom of the tiptop layer:

Curl a long piece of fondant into a long rope.
At present twist it into a braided wait and place it around the bottom of the cake top equally shown.

Bottom tray:

Coil out a layer of brown fondant and lay it on the bottom tray
At present press the woods textured mold into the brown fondant to create the wood look.

For the Etch a sketch sign:

Write your message on a piece of sparse white chard lath or newspaper and cut information technology to the size yous want to display PLUS enough for the outer edge decorations.
Attach to a piece of white fondant for stability.
On the front end apply strips of cerise colored fondant to make a frame as shown around the message. Place white circles on the lesser corners.
PLACE the sign on the cake AFTER the cake is centered on the textured cake lath.

Place the cake on the cake board. set the sign and now suit the toy story toys on and around on cake layers every bit y'all adopt. Use your child's favorite character for the block topper. For some it will exist a Woody cake. Dane is a Fizz Lightyear fan.

Use the fondant anyway you like to show off the toys in a western theme. You don't take to follow exactly what you see hither.

The Toy Story Toys Amanda Chose to decorate this Toy Story BirthDAY Block are at Amazon if you need to guild them.

Amanda and Nathan cut the sign parts from paper after measuring out how big they wanted them. they recommend an exacto knife for this. On the party day they speedily added the sign and toys. And set it out for Dane to see!

Your printable Recipe Card for the cakes and frosting:

This ambrosial Toy Story Altogether block is a perfect selection for your Toy Story fan consummate with personalized Toy story toppers.

Ingredients

Chocolate Cake:
2 cups all-purpose flour
two cups carbohydrate
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons blistering powder
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
i teaspoon espresso powder
ane cup milk
½ cup kokosnoot oil
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
ane loving cup boiling water
Frosting:
1/2 C. butter (softened)
1/2 C. peanut butter, flossy
1 i/2 tsp. vanilla excerpt
3 C. powdered carbohydrate (More is necessary)
ane-two Tbsp. milk

Instructions

For The Cake:

Preheat oven to 350º F. Prepare two 9-inch circular cake pans by buttering or oiling and lightly flouring.
Add flour, saccharide, cocoa, baking pulverization, baking soda, common salt and espresso pulverization to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand up mixer. Whisk through to combine or, using your paddle attachment, stir through flour mixture until combined well.
Add milk, kokosnoot oil, eggs, and vanilla to flour mixture and mix together on medium speed until well combined. Reduce speed and advisedly add humid water to the cake batter. Beat out on high speed for well-nigh 1 minute to add together air to the batter.
Distribute cake concoction evenly between the 2 prepared block pans.
Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick or block tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove from the oven and permit to absurd for about x minutes, remove from the pan and cool completely on racks. Cake may be tightly wrapped in plastic wrap and stored in the fridge a twenty-four hour period if desired

Frosting Instructions:

Beat the softened butter for ane minute or until it is light and fluffy.
Add peanut butter in and beat out for an additional 2 minutes.
Add vanilla extract and slowly add powdered saccharide until your frosting becomes thick.
Add together 1 Tbsp of milk, and beat. Continue calculation milk until frosting is the desired consistency.