{"id":6366,"date":"2015-03-11T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.com\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2015-03-13T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:07:39","slug":"how-to-make-a-cinderella-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=6366","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Cinderella Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Cinderella movie is coming out this weekend, and I knew I had to make a cake to celebrate! \u00a0Cinderella is of course a classic fairy tale and Disney cartoon, so hopefully this newest version will live up to it predecessors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HzVyW2QrQk4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Originally, I had wanted to make an edible glass slipper, but I wasn&#8217;t able to find a large enough silicone mold that would withstand the heat of isomalt. \u00a0With that idea off the table, I switched to trying gelatin. \u00a0I 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&#8217;t strong enough to stand up without support. \u00a0So, my last option was chocolate. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0Hopefully you get enough of a shine reflection back to understand what the shoe really looked like. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s helper (ummm&#8230;footman?? \u00a0or is that just a Downton Abbey<\/p>\n<p>term?) carries the glass slipper around the village looking for the owner of the abandoned shoe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are going to make this cake and have to transport it, there are a couple of pieces of advice I&#8217;ll pass onto you. \u00a0The tassels are quite fragile, and I would apply them once you have the cake in place at the location you&#8217;re headed to. \u00a0Also, as the chocolate shoe is fairly heavy, I wouldn&#8217;t put it on top of the cake until you are ready to serve it. \u00a0I left my cake out overnight to test the strength of the cake and it&#8217;s ability to hold up the shoe, and by morning, the heel of the shoe had slightly sunken into the cake. \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t much, but it was enough to notice the difference from the original height it had. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2017site.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6375\" title=\"Cinderella Cake \" src=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2017site.jpg\" alt=\"Cinderella Cake \" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2017site.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2017site-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>\u00a0Cinderella Cake\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 x 12&#8243; square cakes<\/li>\n<li>Prepared purple buttercream<\/li>\n<li>Prepared white buttercream\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>White chocolate (2 cups melted chocolate total)<\/li>\n<li>White dragees<\/li>\n<li>Quilting tool\/mold<\/li>\n<li>White large sprinkles<\/li>\n<li>Clear piping gel<\/li>\n<li>Sparkling piping gel<\/li>\n<li>Clear sanding sugar\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Luster dust (pearl)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Gumpaste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Butterfly Mold: http:\/\/amzn.to\/1HAWJf3<br \/>Shoe Mold: http:\/\/amzn.to\/1MsDFT3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2126site2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6376\" title=\"Cinderella Shoe \" src=\"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2126site2.jpg\" alt=\"Cinderella Shoe\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2126site2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSC_2126site2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Procedure:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Stack cakes and carve out pillow shape.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Cover cake in purple buttercream and smooth out with a cake spatula.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Using a quilting mold.\/tool, press a quilted look into the buttercream. Where the diamonds meet, place a white dragee.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Apply a white border\/seam to the middle of the edges of the pillow by using the rope technique.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>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.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Melt chocolate and fill mold. Allow to harden completely.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Press a small amount of gum paste into a butterfly mold and allow to harden. 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