Rapunzel, Rapunzel...

This past weekend I created a Tangled (Disney's Version of Rapunzel) cake for my neighbor’s fifth birthday. Here are the steps to making this nontraditional cake:


1.    attach a four-inch PVC pipe to a thin wood board with screws and a drill. These materials can be found at any home improvement store.

2.     Bake a French vanilla cake in three circle 6x8 pans, and place them in the freezer to harden overnight. (Frozen cake is much easier to work with; it does not affect the taste or texture at all, and will defrost in time to eat.)

3.     While the cake is in the freezer, cover the board with blue and green fondant to resemble grass and a river. Then cover the pipe with grey fondant stamped with a brick pattern. Cover portions of the grey with smooth beige to resemble crumbling stucco.

needed materials: stamps, piping gel, fondant, and tools

4.   Cover Rapunzel’s tower with vines. For this cut flowers with a small tool and placed sugar pearls in the middle, then pipe the stems onto the tower itself with green royal icing and paste the flowers to the vines with piping gel and a small angled paint brush.

5.     Take the cake out of the freezer and frost with French vanilla frosting. Cover with beige fondant. Use brown wood stamped fondant to create home effects.

6.    For roof,  simply form rice crispy treats with hands into a cone shape and cover with small oval pieces of brown fondant to resemble shingles. The balcony is formed from rice crispy treats, covered with brown fondant, and attached to the cake with toothpicks and royal icing.

 Finished product. I loved making this cake, and really enjoyed the process, and she obviously loved the cake.