Oh cake decorating experts!

for the face colour you can just make up the normal icing and dont add colouring.

Yes i made a black batman cake and it did stain teeth.

I was lazy for Bays bday this year and just bought an edible cake image for $12 off TM - its cheap, easy and looks awsome!!!!
There are some neat mickey mouse ones if you want to go that way?

mickey edible cake image

Edited by BaileyandAstin

What kind of icing are you using? If it has butter in it, you might just need a touch of red and it will get to a close kind of skin colour?

Hopefully Janine will come on here though cause she's heaps more experienced than me!

i made a mickey mouse - used a touch of red and a touch of yellow. looked a wee bit pinky though

I was wondering the same thing...i'm planning on making Lycan's birthday cake this year too and it's a toss up between Mickey and Bob....so far i think Mickey is winning

I used these colours: black, ivory, red

The gel colours make the most vibrant colours. I just made butter icing and added teeny bits of gel to get the colours on the cake.

The black makes your tongue blue/green. Some got squished into the carpet and it came out with warm water so it's not bad when it comes to staining.

Thanks for all the comments and awesome cake photos ladies!! Not sure if I'm keen on the black teeth when I think of photos I may take of her afterwards hehe.. Also had heard of the colour run thing so not sure if I would have a chance to ice it on the day?

I very well may copy your idea in the end MrsMojo cause it looks great and ultimately Alyssa would be happy to see Mickey Mouse no matter how he was on the cake.

I originally did a google image search to find ideas and the face looks kind of skin coloured in most of them but I guess white would be ok... I would love to be able to do something like this..


But mine would probably end up like this which is a little more basic.. she would still know it's Mickey though..

Pepsi - the same concept as the bottom one and the top one are roughly about right. if you look at the first one... it's all done in blobs. you get the little star nozzle with the icing bags, all you need to do is trace a template of the ears piece you need black, ie print out a pic you like in roughly the right size, cut the black piece from the white in a puzzle kinda way, put the black piece on the cake and use a sharp knife to gently make a small line along the top of the cake so you know where to go.

Then just do the blobs of icing - reallllly quick to do, i did a carebear cake for ayja using this technique and it was super fast. In fact i think it took less than an hour. and instead of doing them in straight rows, use the nextrow you do and put it in the in-between parts so theres no gaps and so on and so on.

The rest is just a plain little nozzle that comes with it, and you just do an outline with the black icing.   It doesn't stain tooo much. If you're worried you could always make a nice choclate icing and it would have the same effect without the crazy blackness.

The blobs are like this...in alternate rows.



GO ON YOU KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Use ivory colouring for the face colour. it comes out looking way more like mickey than white.

I used that exact same picture (the top mickey) for my cake. I blew it up to the right size and traced around it for the shape and the placement of the eyes etc.

its on trademe only that I've found. But the gel colours do make the best vibrant colours. Far better than the liquid ones at the supermarket. The seller that I used (occassioncakes) gave me some advice about the cake and colouring and I only used a very small amount of it so I have loads left for future cakes

You could also check out your local cake decorating shop or spotlight - they often have the gel colourings for sale.