The new Cinderella movie is coming out this weekend, and I knew I had to make a cake to celebrate! Cinderella is of course a classic fairy tale and Disney cartoon, so hopefully this newest version will live up to it predecessors.
Originally, I had wanted to make an edible glass slipper, but I wasn’t able to find a large enough silicone mold that would withstand the heat of isomalt. With that idea off the table, I switched to trying gelatin. I tried making a jello-like shoe in four different ways, but I was unsuccessful each time with that as well; the colour was off each time, and the gelatin wasn’t strong enough to stand up without support. So, my last option was chocolate. The shine and appearance of the chocolate shoe was really beautiful in real life. but unfortunately, it was a little bit difficult to see in the video. Hopefully you get enough of a shine reflection back to understand what the shoe really looked like.
You could put this kind of a shoe onto any shape of a cake, but since I was making it Cinderella themed, I wanted to model it off of the part of the movie where the prince’s helper (ummm…footman?? or is that just a Downton Abbey
term?) carries the glass slipper around the village looking for the owner of the abandoned shoe.
If you are going to make this cake and have to transport it, there are a couple of pieces of advice I’ll pass onto you. The tassels are quite fragile, and I would apply them once you have the cake in place at the location you’re headed to. Also, as the chocolate shoe is fairly heavy, I wouldn’t put it on top of the cake until you are ready to serve it. I left my cake out overnight to test the strength of the cake and it’s ability to hold up the shoe, and by morning, the heel of the shoe had slightly sunken into the cake. It wasn’t much, but it was enough to notice the difference from the original height it had.
Cinderella Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 x 12″ square cakes
- Prepared purple buttercream
- Prepared white buttercream
- White chocolate (2 cups melted chocolate total)
- White dragees
- Quilting tool/mold
- White large sprinkles
- Clear piping gel
- Sparkling piping gel
- Clear sanding sugar
- Luster dust (pearl)
- Gumpaste
Butterfly Mold: http://amzn.to/1HAWJf3
Shoe Mold: http://amzn.to/1MsDFT3
Procedure:
- Stack cakes and carve out pillow shape.
- Cover cake in purple buttercream and smooth out with a cake spatula.
- Using a quilting mold./tool, press a quilted look into the buttercream. Where the diamonds meet, place a white dragee.
- Apply a white border/seam to the middle of the edges of the pillow by using the rope technique.
- To the corners of the pillow, pipe on the tassels using a Wilton 233 tip. Press on a large round sprinkle/ball, and small white dragees around the outside of the ball.
- Melt chocolate and fill mold. Allow to harden completely.
- Cover shoe in piping gel, and apply the white sanding sugar to piping gel. Brush the top area of the shoe with luster dust. Pipe sparkling gel around the edge of the top opening of the shoe.
- Press a small amount of gum paste into a butterfly mold and allow to harden. Once hardened press onto the toe area of the shoe.
Hi Jen, what measurements did you use for the purple and white buttercream? thanks Pamela
I never measure my buttercream, sorry.
Jenn, your creations are amazing but I.Can’t get that deep purple color for the buttercream..help!
It’s all in the brand of gel paste. I used Americolor gel paste as I think their colours are the best.
Hi Jen. You are so clever and you make it look so easy. please can you tell me how on earth did you get the icing to look so smooth and shiny on the cake.!
A lot of time and patience! It’s best to do a number of thin coats, rather than one thick one. Using a hot knife (run under hot water) also smooths the icing out. Thanks for watching.
I wondering how much cake batter is used for 12″ cakes? And did you use your Vanilla cake for this one?
Thanks! 🙂
Mary
I used about 6 cups of batter in each of my pans….and yes, I used my vanilla cake recipe
i love this idea and im a young 13 year old baker and want to make this for my sister and wanting to know is there another way to make the glass slipper i realy need a fast responce
I covered other ways to make the shoe in this post.
Just discovered you today (Facebook share) and I have binge watched your videos. You are an artist!! I love the things you do. I am inspired … I’m sure mine will look like the Pinterest fails you see online, but I’ll have fun doing it! The Cinderella cake is beautiful – maybe one day I’ll make something at least half as nice! 🙂
I’m so happy you’ve found my channel! Thanks so much for watching the videos 🙂 I wish you the best of luck, and if you take any pictures make sure you send them to me!
I love this cake!! I’ll definitely try this one soon. But I’m not sure if I can find the materials that you used for the gum paste and slipper glass. If you can pls tell me where can I buy that from??? Thanks and love you and your cakes!!!!
Keep up the good work.
You can get all of them from any cake supply store, or craft store that carries cake supplies. Have fun!
Very nice cake! My daughter will be having a Cinderella birthday party. This will blow her away! Thanks for the inspiration!
Tatiana
I’m glad you like it!
I love this