Beauty and the Beast Belle Cake
I watched the old Disney cartoon version of Beauty and the Beast last night. I love that it doesn’t follow the traditional ‘princess model’. Belle is well read, not obsessed with looks, loves her dad and is willing to lay down her own freedom to rescue him. “Greater love has no one than to lay down his/her life for a friend” (the bible).
To make this Belle cake you will need:
9″ round cake board
2 x 8″ round cake tins
1L (0.26 gallons) heat proof bowl
One a a half x rich chocolate cake recipe
2 x Vanilla butter cream mixed with 1 teaspoon of pink food coloring and 1 tablespoon rose water
White chocolate ganache made with 150g (5.29 ounces) white chocolate and 50mL (1.69 fluid ounces) cream (heat for 30 second intervals stirring after each until the chocolate is melted)
600g (21.16 ounces) yellow fondant
50g (1.76 ounces) white fondant
100g (3.53 ounces) blue fondant to cover the board (optional)
simple syrup (heat 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water in the microwave until the sugar has dissolved, once cooled add 1 tablespoon of rose water).
Belle doll
Beast doll (optional)
Yellow or gold sugar pearls x 7
Wrap your dolls hair in plastic wrap to protect it from frosting and wash and dry the body.
Place your first cake onto the cake board, brush with simple syrup and then a smother the top with buttercream. Repeat with the next layer and place the bowl cake to one side.
Cut a skinny rectangle just smaller than the dolls waist out of the top of one side of the cake. Using a fork scoop out the cake from the hole. Then push the doll down into the cake.
Carve the cake as shown in the video and create the up part for the dress that is in Bell’s hand.
Mix the white chocolate ganache into the buttercream frosting mixing it through well. Cover the dress in frosting and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Use strips of white fondant to cover the area of the dress tac will be exposed when the yellow dress is lifted up. (not I did this step later int eh video but decided it would be easier to do it first so you don’t damage the yellow fondant).
Wrap a rectangle of yellow frosting around the cake. Trim off the excess at the bottom and use a piece of fondant to smooth down the dress. Squeeze it in at the waist and use a trim off the excess.
Pull and shape the fondant up towards her hand so that it looks like she is holding the dress. Trim off some of the fondant at the hem line where the is pulling it up.
Trim around the rest of the dress at the cake board.
Make a small indent in each crease about two thirds of the way up the skirt. Take a thin rectangle of yellow and fold it like and accordion. Pinch it at one end and push into one of the indents. Gently stretch to the next indent then pinch it and push in. Repeat all the way around the dress. Add a gold sugar pearl to the top of each swirl.
Cut a piece for the body that has a ‘v’ going down in the centre (see the video). Wrap that around the body and trim at the back.
Roll a snake of yellow then use your little finger to make it skinnier in the centre. Add it around belle’s shoulders. Then use a knife to indent it so that it looks like ruffles.
Optional – add blue fondant to the cake board.
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Can you make this into a tutorial with all buttercream in place of fondant? She’s beautiful in fondant but I. Awful with fondant.
Hi Ann!! I think that this cake is amazing!! And I really want to try it my self!!?
Super
Hi I am new to your channel and website/blog do you have a video on how to make fondant.
Hi Dayana, Check these ones out: https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/marshmallow-fondant-recipe-for-cake-decorating/ and https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/recipe-for-home-made-fondant-sugar-paste/ .
I would really like to make the belle cake but with the other chocolate cake recipe which was used for the teddy bear cake (tatty teddy) Could you please advise what the quantities of that cake recipe I would need to make the belle cake? Thank you!!x
Hi Debbie, You could use the given quantity of that lighter cake recipe. You may have a little extra.
Ann!! YES! I ADORE beauty and the beast! Especially with the new live action movie coming out so I was like? When I saw this!!
Hi Ann, what a wonderful cake!!! I can’t do it for my little boy though, maybe a friend from kindergarden! 😉
please, Anne, do the kitchen tour!
And, If I am not too cheeky, could you do a darth vader or stormtrooper cake, please?
Thanks
Gorgous cake, but I second the Darth Vader request! 3D, please! My son will love it!
Hi Ann, wow great video….. I wouldn’t want anyone to cut this cake…it looks like work but you always make it look easy…thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks Ana.
Hi ann,
Many thanks for sharing your great recipes.
Whatching your videos is ond of my favorite hobbies, that I count each single second for a new episode of HOW TO COOK THAT.
I love bakery even though I’m a 14 year old girl from Iran.
Because of your wounderful skills, my baking is proved that I baked and decorated my own birthday cake in January First.
I would like to learn more about baking, cake decorating and your kitchen, so…
I’m looking forward to see a new kitchen tour from you…
Waiting for seeing a new kitchen tour from a new kitchen.
What an amazing cake Marjan. You did a fantastic job especially given you are still quite young. Keep up the great work. Ann will no doubt post some pics of her new kitchen when all is complete.
Yes, please do a kitchen tour of your new kitchen.
That is such a pretty cake! Thanks for sharing.
Deepika ..
I like to much ur cake .I m just starte making cake business plz give me good tips
Where are the dolls from???
Hi Cassie, Belle & Beast dolls are already around in local department stores here. You can also find them online.