Oven Mini Cake Tutorial

How-to Easy Bake Oven CAKE

This week we are Mixing-It-Up in the kitchen with a retro inspired cake in the shape of an easybake oven. It’s the perfect cake to make for a birthday, house warming or just a fun idea!

LOOK DOWN BELOW for all the materials you’ll need.

WHAT YOU NEED:

Cake- 4 x 4″ squares (cut from a sheet pan)
Buttercream

MATERIALS
4-inch cardboard
Small serrated knife
*1 pound of Lt. Blue Fondant (I mixed Teal and Wedding white)
White fondant or gum paste
*Pre-dyed fondant: black, brown, (or dye with gels)
Brown gel
Vodka
Rolling pin
Cornstarch
Small ruler
Fondant smoothers
Vegetable shortening
Brushes
Paring Knife
Scalpel
Gum glue or egg whites
Pastry Tips #: 5, 12, 804, 806, 808, Wilton 2C
Silver luster dust
Lemon extract

*(Fondarific brand is suggested- http://fondarific.com)

STEPS:
1) Cut out cardboard
2) Cut out three 4 x 4-inch squares of cake
3) Fill with buttercream
4) Freeze cake
5) Trim cake to be a perfect square
6) Coat in buttercream and refrigerate
7) Roll-out (1 pound) Lt. Blue fondant and cover cake

8) Roll-out a square piece for the oven door- cut a square for the window, attach a black square of gum paste behind the window of the oven and attach.
9) Once attached emboss a line on top for “wooden” strip for knobs and make a line for “broiler drawer”
10) Make top of oven with left over Lt. Blue, make a rectangle detail with the back of a scalpel and vents on top of oven.
11) Cut-out all Silver details- door handle, knobs and clock
Use tip #804 for four small knobs, #806 for 2 large knobs and oven handle is 2.5-inches long
12) Cut-out all Black details-
Use tip #: #12 for four small knobs, #804 for two large knobs, Back of pastry tip #804 for four stove tops, clock, door handle strip, tip #5 for four extra buttons
13) Cut out white square for stove-top
14) Paint “wood” strip for front of oven
15) Assemble and make indents on “burners” with back of pastry tips

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