Maisy Mouse 2nd Birthday Cake

by Alanna
(Brisbane)

My son loves Maisy, so we had a 'Maisy Mouse Morning Tea' for his second birthday. I consulted this website for good ideas and decided to make his cake using a stencil/outline.

I made the stencil myself, as I found it hard to find Maisy stuff - I just got a picture of Maisy, took it to the copy shop and had it enlarged to the right size and cut the picture out. I pinned it to the cake, then cut around the picture using a small serated knife.
Obviously this didn't give me the inside details but they were easy enough to free-hand using the picture as a reference.

The cake was plain vanilla sponge, the icing was coloured vienna cream (couldn't get the red and blue as dark as I wanted!) and the black outline was 'writing gel' I bought from the supermarket. Maisy's whiskers are apricot-flavoured musk sticks. I was really pleased with the end result and my little one loved seeing his favourite character as his special birthday cake!!