{"id":4611,"date":"2014-05-30T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T09:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2015-12-10T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T22:48:14","slug":"dora-explorer-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/dora-explorer-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Dora The Explorer Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\" align=\"center\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" alt=\"Dora cake decorating lesson by how to cook that\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dora-birthday-cake-550x335.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a super simple Dora the Explorer birthday cake idea. \u00a0Bright and beautifully colourful in the Dora logo colours, this dress is ready for any party or fiesta. \u00a0Making a gorgeous cake is fun but there&#8217;s always a big clean-up afterwards of course. The only issue is that our dishwasher broke this week, meaning all of Dora&#8217;s dishes plus the usual two or three loads per day suddenly piled up. \u00a0It was all a bit of a hassle &#8230; but then something interesting happened. \u00a0This week I discovered that doing dishes together is a great time to talk to your kids. \u00a0It&#8217;s like holding them captive with soapy water and a tea-towel and surprisingly effective at extending dinner conversations into the evening. \u00a0It&#8217;s funny how life&#8217;s little problems sometimes throw up unexpected pleasures.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gx39t-Yx8-k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"fn\">To make your Dora Cake you will need<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Cake:<\/strong><br \/>\nI used a double quantity of my <a title=\"Perfect Sponge Cake Recipe:  Light Fluffy Moist and Tall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/sponge-cake-recipe\/\">light fluffy sponge cake recipe<\/a>. Baked into two 20cm (7.87 inches) round cake tins and one 20cm (7.87 inches) pyrex oven proof bowl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frosting:<\/strong><br \/>\nOne quantity of white chocolate ganache cooled and whipped with one quantity of vanilla buttercream. See the <a title=\"7 Best Frosting Recipes Taste Tested\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/best-frosting-recipes\/\">frosting recipes<\/a> post for those recipes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fondant:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"ingredient\"><span class=\"amount\">60g (2.12 ounces)<\/span> <span class=\"name\">pink<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n60g (2.12 ounces) purple<br \/>\n60g (2.12 ounces) orange<br \/>\n60g (2.12 ounces) yellow<br \/>\n60g (2.12 ounces) green<br \/>\n60g (2.12 ounces) blue<br \/>\nIf you are colouring white fondant you will need red, blue and yellow gel colour to make these and I suggest you also buy purple colouring as it can be hard to mix a bright purple, it tends to look greyish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4613\" alt=\"Dora the explorer cake decorating class Ann Reardon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_1493-550x733.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_1493-550x733.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_1493-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_1493-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_1493-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_1493-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"updated\">2014<\/h5>\n<p>by Ann Reardon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/\" title=\"Welcome to How To Cook That\" target=\"_blank\">How To Cook That<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/dora-explorer-cake\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dora-birthday-cake-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dora cake decorating lesson by how to cook that\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dora-birthday-cake-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dora-birthday-cake-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dora-birthday-cake-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/dora-birthday-cake-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"4614\" \/><\/a><p>Here&#8217;s a super simple Dora the Explorer birthday cake idea. \u00a0Bright and beautifully colourful in the Dora logo colours, this dress is ready for any party or fiesta. \u00a0Making a gorgeous cake is fun but there&#8217;s always a big clean-up afterwards of course. The only issue is that our dishwasher broke this week, meaning all of Dora&#8217;s dishes plus the usual two or three loads per day suddenly piled up. \u00a0It was all a bit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,1652,748],"tags":[31,1774,1261,1768,1770,1772,1769,1771,1775,1777,1776,1116,952,1184,163,1115,281,1773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10085,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/10085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}