Disney’s Frozen movie is still making waves, as evidenced by all the Elsa and Anna costumes and party ideas popping up all over Pinterest.  My daughter is one of those Frozen fans, and this week we had a Frozen birthday party, complete with this easy to make Frozen-themed birthday cake.

How to make a Disney Frozen birthday cake:

I used two cake mixes for our cake.  The first one I cooked in a large glass measuring cup (like this one), much like I did for her tea pot birthday cake.

The second I cooked in a 9 inch round cake pan and a cupcake pan.  (I only needed the round cake; the cupcakes I put up in the freezer to enjoy later.)

I assembled the two cakes like the picture below, using plenty of icing between them to hold them together.

Originally my daughter wanted steps on her Frozen cake.  After watching the movie once again, and seeing how the stairs curved, I decided to use half of a waffle bowl (like you use for ice cream sundaes) to build a curving bridge to act as the stairs for our dear Anna to stand on.

To keep the bridge from sagging beneath Anna’s weight once it was decorated with icing, I squished two large marshmallows beneath it, resting on the round cake below.

(In the picture above you’ll notice our waffle bowl bridge, waiting for icing.  You’ll also notice two other waffle bowl halves that I originally used to build Elsa’s castle.  Unfortunately, the icing made them too soft and they eventually sagged down to the cake.  Thankfully I had time to remove them and had plenty of left over icing to touch the cake up before party time!)

Once we had plenty of white icing on the cake, we used lots of tiny candy pearls and large silver sugar crystals to decorate the ice castle.

Light blue rock candy sticks and Elsa and Anna dolls finished off of our cake.  (A little powder sugar snow on the cake stand completed our look.) 

I wish I had a picture of the birthday girl’s face when she first saw the cake.  It’s exactly why I spend time creating the birthday cakes they ask for.

Do you have a Frozen fan at home?  Or have your kids let it go….

If you have a Frozen fan, check out the easy Rock Trolls craft we did at the party!

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This past week my daughter celebrated her 7th birthday, and like so many girls, she loves the movie Frozen, so she asked to  have a Frozen-themed birthday party.

We made a simple DIY Frozen birthday cake.  This fun and simple Frozen-themed craft: make rock trolls, was a huge hit with all the kids.  It would also be fun just as a garden craft or for anyone that loves Trolls.

Frozen-Themed Craft:  Rock Trolls

This Frozen craft is so much fun, and the rock trolls look cute in the flower bed. 

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Materials Needed:

• Rocks
• Hot Glue Gun
• Craft Glue
• Wiggly Eyes
• Permanent Markers
• Felt (optional)
• Terrarium Moss

You will need plenty of 3-4 inch tall rocks. Make sure they have a fairly flat bottom to stand on.

Wash the rocks ahead of time and make sure they are dry before making your trolls.

Then let the kids get creative!

Use a hot glue gun to add on fun wiggly eyes.

Permanent markers work great for adding noses, mouths, and other details for this troll craft.

Terrarium Moss makes the perfect hair for rock trolls.  I originally used the hot glue to stick it on, but regular craft glue actually worked better for this.  

If you want to go a bit further, felt can be cut into clothing and glued onto the rocks.

I love how unique each of the rock trolls from our Frozen party turned out.

The kids had fun creating their trolls and couldn’t wait to show off their Frozen craft to their parents at pick-up time.

Plus, it was a little something special to remember the party by — much more fun than just a goodie bag of candy.

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• DIY Frozen Cake
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• Awesome Camp Crafts

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As promised, I have directions for our teapot cake and the coordinating cupcakes we served at Peanut’s 5th birthday party…

When we first decided on a tea party theme, I was thinking, “No big deal.  I’ll make some cupcakes, decorate them like teacups.  Easy-Peesy.”

But, I should know by now, my little girl is always challenging my creative side.  Right away she asked me, “But, Mommy, what about the teapot?”

I suggested I make a teapot by cutting the shape out of a sheet cake, but she wanted one that stood up, 3-dimensional, just like the teacup cupcakes would.   So this is what I came up with:

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It really turned out to be quite simple.

I remembered that the 8 cup measuring cup I have can be used in the oven.  (Have you seen those princess doll cakes where they use the measuring cup to make the doll’s dress and stick a Barbie in it?)   A light bulb went off when I thought about that…  I just had to figure out the handle and spout.  (To bake it in the measuring cup:  First make sure it is one that can go in the oven!  Pyrex and Pampered Chef both have them.  Then just follow the cake mix directions.  You will need to cook it quite a bit longer than the box says, I think mine cooked 15 minutes longer.)

I had quite a few crazy suggestions (from cooking it in a teapot and then cutting it out, to using styrofoam and icing it…)  I decided an ice-cream cone would work, and I was really excited when I found out they had small waffle cones at the grocer’s because they were angled just right to be a spout!

I didn’t have to cut the top part of the cone at all… I did saw off the tip with my bread knife.  Super easy.

After icing the teapot’s body (pink, of course), I spread a thin layer of icing on the waffle cone.  Then I rolled it in some red decorator sugar (after all, little girl’s love lots of sparkle) and used a table knife to cut a 1/4″ deep circle on the cake where the spout would be going.  (Basically I traced the cone.)  Then I just stuck it in and touched up the icing.

For the handle I opted for candy.  Can’t go wrong there!

I bought a bag of Twizzlers Pull-n-Peels to do the teapot and teacup handles.  I used one piece for the teapot’s handle, sticking both ends into the cake to form the handle.  I pulled another apart leaving 2 strands stuck together to circle the top of the teapot and make the “lid.”  A purple lollipop formed the knob for the lid.

You could stop right there… But I added some candy “pearls” I found in the cake decorating area, a little more of the red sugar, and the number 5 on the side, since it was her 5th birthday.

Teacup cupcakes:

Now for the cupcakes, I mean teacups…

Pretty easy…

Once they cooled I popped them in the freezer for a few minutes.  Then, working with 4-5 at a time, keeping the rest in the freezer, I used my bread knife to saw off the tops and make them flat. (That bread knife got a workout for the tea party — if you think of all the finger sandwiches I cut crusts off of…)

Then I held each cupcake between my thumb and index finger and iced just the sides of the cupcake.  (Oh, did I mention you have to take the wrappers off for these?)

Once they were iced, I sat them on the tray and used decorator icing to draw the cup’s rim on the top.  Then I pulled a bunch of those Twizzlers Pull-n-Peels apart so there were 2 strands together and cut them in 2 1/2″ lengths.  These were stuck into the cupcake’s sides to form the teacup’s handle.  I could have decorated the sides more, but honestly, at that point I was getting tired of looking at cake stuff…

There you have it, a tray full of edible teacups!

(One thing to note:  If you do your cake and cupcakes the night before (like I did), the Twizzlers will break some.  You’ll notice the teapot handle in the picture with the birthday girl doesn’t look as nice.  Adding the handles the day of the party may be a better bet.)

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