I spent a lot of time baking & decorating this cake, so I just wanted to document it for posterity or something. I had a lot of fun decorating it & I was grateful to Gretchen & Cotton for watching Chase & Charlotte so I could get it done! I’ll describe it below in case anyone wants to make one!
I just used a regular 9×13” pan for this cake. I used a box cake mix, but added sour cream, pudding, sugar, & flour to make it more moist & dense. After baking it, I sliced it into two layers and put coconut cream pudding in between the layers. You just make it from pudding mix & use less milk so it’s thick & won’t seep out.
(I always do a thin “crumb layer” of frosting on the cake to pick up all the crumbs. After it sits in the fridge for a bit, I frost another thin layer over the crumb layer so that no crumbs will be in sight! I smooth it out by running the spatula under warm water before smoothing the frosting a couple times.)
I made the tower out of “Cocoa Pebbles Treats” (I made Rice Krispie Treats except with Cocoa Pebbles, sprayed my hands with Pam, & then squished it into a tower shape over a wooden dowel). I dipped a sugar cone in melted candy melts for the top of the tower (got that idea from Bakerella). It was a lot heavier than I’d anticipated, but Pace helped me put the tower into the cake with a little Styrofoam piece inside part of a plastic cup so it wouldn’t tip over! Yay Pace!
I bought the Tangled characters set at the Disney store (on sale)! I used jelly bean rocks (yummy!) around the bottom & on the top. The blue sprinkle river is outlined with black licorice strings, and has mini Swedish Fish inside. I used a leaf tip for the ivy leaves on the tower, and a little star tip to cover the two sugar cone trees with frosting.
It was fun and my kids loved the finished product!
See all the party photos in our Jan album