I'm going to do a Dora character cake for my DD's 3rd birthday at the end of this month. It'll be my first character cake. I have a question about it though..I know most everything is done in stars, but the cake around Dora is iced. But I dont understand....do you ice the whole cake and then do Dora in stars over the first coat of icing? Or just ice the outside part that needs to be iced, then put the stars over the Dora part, with no icing underneath? I hope this makes sense.
Michelle
Well you can do it either way. Pros and cons either way. If you dont ice it first, you might see cake through the stars if you dont have them close enough together. Plus sometimes the stars dont want to stick to the bare cake very well.
If you do a crumb coat it can be a little hard to see the lines. But your stars will stick better and you wont see the cake coming through. What i did was to crumb coat the cake, then I took a toothpick and trace the lines first, then when ahead and starred it.
I've done this cake twice so far and I would recommend not icing the whole thing. You could see the cake's imprints to see where all the colors go.
Beware that you will be mixing A LOT of colors!! I always say I'm not going to do that cake again because of the colors (I think there is something like 9 colors)!
Good luck!
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