This adorable Minnie Mouse cake is super easy to make and the perfect party centerpiece! This one-tier Minnie Mouse birthday cake is large enough to feed a crowd and has plenty of room to write a sweet message to your favorite little Minnie fan!
How to Throw a Minnie Mouse Birthday Party (Without Breaking Your Budget)
When my middle daughter was two years old, we had a Minnie Mouse themed birthday party to celebrate. She has always been a Disney fan and especially as a young child she was obsessed with all things Minnie Mouse!
This post was originally published in May 2016, but I love this Minnie Mouse cake and wanted to add a video to the post. That’s why we updated with new photos and video tutorials from April 2019.
This Minnie Mouse birthday celebration has two objectives:
1- Have fun everyone! (Children and adults!)
2- Don’t spend a lot of money (birthdays can be very expensive if you’re not careful!)
I was surprised at how much my mother-in-law spent on a “simple” birthday cake for our oldest daughter’s party last year, so I decided the DIY approach would be easier on the budget this time.
Also, I really enjoyed baking and decorating the cake and I was so happy with the result! I’m not known for my talents in the kitchen, so if I could make this cake, trust me…it’s easy!!
Ingredients for the cake
• Chocolate Cake Mix – Although you can make your own Minnie Mouse cake, we used packaged cake mix to save time. You will need two boxes of the mixture.
• Dark Chocolate Frosting – Again, pre-made frosting is a huge time saver! (Take two cans of frosting!)
• White icing – We made Minnie’s bow out of this and wrote a birthday message on the cake. One jar should be enough.
• Red food coloring – We mix some pink icing with red food coloring for Minnie’s bow.
Kitchen utensils used:
• 30cm round baking tin and 15cm round baking tin – You can also use 9cm and 5cm baking tin etc. The most crucial thing is to have two smaller circular baking pans for Minnie’s ears and a large baking pan for her head.
• Ice Cream Scooper Bags – We love these reusable silicone bags because you can wash and use them over and over again. A fine tip is best for writing and creating white dots.
How much does this Minnie Mouse cake last?
This Minnie Mouse cake is large enough to feed all 25 to 30 of our guests, in case you were wondering how many people it will serve.
We used two box cake mixes and two cans of frosting (plus about half a can of white frosting for labeling and decorating).
If you want to make a smaller cake, you can use a box of cake mix and a jar of frosting – you may just want to use smaller cake pans than the ones we used.
How to Bake a Minnie Mouse Cake
Using a box mix made this Minnie Mouse cake really simple to make.
You can make your favorite flavor: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry – anything works because the dark chocolate glaze covers it.
If you prefer a homemade cake recipe
TIP: If you don’t have two small pans, bake in shifts and reuse the 6-inch pan instead of buying two.
Allow the cookies to cool completely before cutting off the tops. You want all three cookies to be the same height. Do NOT throw away the excess cookie as you will use it up within a minute.
Arrange your cookies: The large cookie is the head and the two smaller cookies are the ears. Cover them all with dark chocolate frosting.
Remember how there are still excess cookies left over after you cut your cookies? Make Minnie’s bow on the big cake.
Once you’ve found the right shape for the bow, cover it with pink icing.
Finally, pour the rest of the white icing into a piping bag and pipe dots onto the pink rose. You can also write a birthday message in the middle of the cake.
Isn’t this Minnie Mouse cake just the cutest?!
How to put Minnie Mouse ears on a cake
Since we made our Minnie Mouse birthday cake for a party where we invited lots of family and friends, we wanted our cake design to be functional.
A cake with raised ears would be fragile and could only be picked up at the party.
I love the outcome of our Minnie Mouse birthday cake and all of our guests instantly recognized the Minnie ears and white polka dot bow!
It’s one of my favorite birthday cake ideas we’ve ever done!
Bonus Party Idea: Simple Minnie Mouse Goodie Bags
I didn’t want to waste a lot of time on fancy goodie bags because the kids would just tear them up, but I still wanted them to be festive and fit the theme.
How to bake a Minnie Mouse birthday cake?
Ingredients
1. 2 boxes of chocolate cake mix
2. 4 cups chocolate frosting
3. Red gel food coloring
4. 1 cup white frosting
Instructions
1. Follow the directions on the package to prepare the cake batter. Pour batter into two tiny and one large circular molds.
2. After the cookies have cooled completely, trim the tops of the three cookies so they are the same height.
3. Arrange in the shape of head and ears. Cover the cake with dark chocolate glaze.
4. Use scraps cut from the top of your cake to form an arch shape.
5. In a small mixing bowl, mix half a can of white frosting with a few drops of red food coloring. Stir and add more food coloring if needed to create a nice shade of pink.
6. Cover your bow with pink icing,
7. Use the remaining white icing to form dots on the bow and decorate the cake with them.
Power supply Calories:
411 kcal | Carbohydrates: 67g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 16g | Saturated fat: 4g | Sodium: 459 mg | Potassium: 234 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 49g | Calcium: 68 mg | Iron: 2.6 mg
She is also known as Princess Minnie and Maestro Minnie. Minnie’s favorite foods are cheese, chocolate and cake. She loves listening to jazz music, cooking, baking, shopping and makeup. She was voiced by Walt Disney from 1928 to 1929, then by Marcelite Garner, and then voiced by Russi Taylor.
As the longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue (or pink or red) polka-dotted dress, white bloomers and low-heeled shoes occasionally with ribbons on them.
Minnie is an anthropomorphic mouse with black fur and ears and pale skin (originally white skin). Her trademark outfit is usually a dress revealing her frilly white bloomers with a large bow and high heel shoes that all are one color (depending on the cartoon).