It's been Frozen cake mania for me. I made two Frozen chiffon cakes the previous week, one for my jc's bestie and another for my lovely mummy friend, and will have another two coming up, including one for my son. Yes his birthday is coming this week and he loves Frozen too! But so do I ;).
The side profile of the cake with the Frozen toppers:
The top view of the cake:
Similar to my previous Navy Stripes Chiffon Cake, I have used blue pea flowers to reduce the amount of blue coloring used, and here also reduced the amount of egg yolks by half (to 2 egg yolks with 5 egg whites) to obtain a whiter chiffon cake. I found it many many times easier to make 'waves' simulating the snow-capped mountains at the sides than straight lines in the Navy Stripes cake! Just need to scoop the batter into 'humps' without much care :D.
My snowflake cutters came in very useful this time. I had to manually cut snowflakes (from layer vanilla chiffon cake) in my previous Frozen cake which was incredibly difficult! The snowflakes cutters are really beautiful. I also made some white snow-covered Christmas trees to make the backdrop for the toppers. I had shared how to make chiffon Christmas trees before.
I also experimented with making sugar glass. I only made a small amount to try. They are really easy to make.
Easy Sugar Glass (from Pam's Party Tips - Elsa's Ice Candy)
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup
1/3 cup water
A pinch of salt
Blue pea flower extract (or blue food coloring)
1. Cook the sugar, syrup, and water on medium heat, stirring to make sure that all of the sugar dissolves.
2. Boil the sugar mixture until it reaches 300°C, or until it hardens into threads when a dropped into cold water.
3. Remove from the heat, and add a few drops of blue pea flower extract (or blue food coloring).
4. Pour into a baking paper-lined baking tray.
5. Allow to cool (picture below) and then break into pieces.
The blue sugar glass was meant for the backdrop of Olaf to contrast his white body, while the white Christmas trees for contrasting the blue dresses of Elsa and Anna.
Thank God my bestie and mummy friend both shared everyone loved the cakes!
I may also take this time to share that I may be blogging/writing less due to the demands of family (I have 3 young children), baking and blogging. It's been difficult juggling all three. However, I will continue to share my passion as and when I have the energy. Thanks for journeying with me the past year :).
With lots of love,
Susanne
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