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Learn how to decorate a Mickey Mouse Cake even if you aren’t a cake decorator! This easy cake decoration is something ANYONE can do easily without any special tools – you just need a few easy ingredients and a love for Mickey Mouse!

A white frosted cake with a chocolate drip, decorated with red and yellow icing, chocolate pieces, and colorful sprinkles on the base, displayed on a white cake stand against a marble background.

I have so many feels about this cake, even more this morning than I did when I made it a few weeks ago.

A friend’s daughter was turning 10 and Disney is her favorite thing. She wanted a Mickey Mouse Disney cake, so I offered to make it for her. Putting this cake together, dreaming up how to decorate it, building my own sprinkle mix: it gave me so much happiness.

It turns out that a Mickey Mouse Cake is not only magical because everything Disney is magical, but because it’s a fun and sweet cake for anyone’s birthday.

A round cake with white frosting, chocolate ganache drips, red swirled icing, chocolate cookies on top, and colorful sprinkles around the base, displayed on a white cake stand.

How to make a Mickey Mouse Cake

All products you need to make this cake are linked in the bottom of this post.
I started with my yellow cake recipe. You could use any cake you want (maybe chocolate or red velvet) and you can even add sprinkles to make it a funfetti cake. Use my recipes or use a box, just make sure you end up with two 8-inch or 9-inch round cakes.
Fill them as desired with frosting or filling and then crumb coat the cake with some vanilla frosting. (Sometimes I cheat and crumb coat my cakes with canned frosting!)
How do you make a rosette on a cake? I am amazing at making a rosette cake – I use them on all my cake and cupcake recipes. Use a Wilton 1M tip to make the swirl, building it up as you go.
The Mickey frosting has two yellow dots of yellow frosting (or you can use two yellow pearl sprinkles).
The Minnie frosting has white pearl sprinkles to represent the dots on her dress.
Each rosette has two mini Oreo ears to make the Mickey Mouse ears!

What is a crumb coat?

A crumb coat on a cake is just a very thin layer of frosting that you use to make sure all the crumbs don’t show through on the final product. Check out my friend Lindsay’s post on how to frost a smooth cake. Her tips are also how I was able to get the outside of this cake so smooth!

A crumb coat isn’t as important on a vanilla cake, but it’s super important if you’re making a chocolate cake or using vanilla frosting because every little crumb will show.

Once you have a crumb coat on, chill it until set, and then frosting the outside is easy as pie.

A round cake with white frosting, a chocolate drip topping, and colorful sprinkles at the base. The top is decorated with red icing swirls, chocolate cookies, and edible pearls, resembling a Mickey Mouse theme.

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How do you make ganache for cakes?

I based my ganache on this ganache recipe. I now have a post on how to make chocolate ganache, but the formula for the drippy kind is a little bit different. Her recipe is thin enough to drizzle but thick enough to stop partway down. It’s perfect!

You can use any color melting chocolate for the ganache if you wanted a fun color on top, but the chocolate ganache drizzle fit right in with my theme. Lindsay’s videos even show you how to drizzle the chocolate over the cake.

Tips

Don’t want to make a cake? Buy a plain layer cake from the bakery and just decorate it yourself.
If you can’t find sprinkles you like, make your own sprinkle mix! I mixed the Mickey Mouse Sprinkles and the jimmies to make my own colorful mix.
This cake was done in traditional Mickey colors but you can swap this to easily make a Minnie Mouse Cake by using shades of pink.
Since it can be hard to get food coloring to be really red, head to your local craft store and get some already-made red frosting. It comes in a can and has the perfect color. This is so much easier than making your own red frosting!

Tools to Make a Mickey Cake