A cake decorating video tutorial making this detailed Anna princess cake from Frozen 2 with free custom stencils.
How I created this Princess Anna Frozen 2 Cake
Six years ago I threw my daughter a Frozen birthday party and of course for the centerpiece I made 2 cakes – both Anna and Elsa. Ever since I got into video I’ve wanted to redo those cakes and film them.
So when Frozen 2 came out I decided it was the perfect time to remake the original Anna and Elsa in addition to making updated NEW Anna and Elsa Cakes!
SO I filmed a video with both, Anna and Elsa from the first movie AND Anna and Elsa from the second movie! It’s a long video (down in the how-to card below) but it’s filled with tips and tricks and tons of detail!
Just take me to the how-to card and video already!
If you’d rather skip my tips and tricks for making princess cakes, along with links to other frozen cakes and recipes and get straight to this video tutorial– simply scroll to the bottom of the page where you can find the printable how-to card.
Tips for making princess cakes
– First off pick your princess doll – This will hep you determine the height you need your cake. I tend to go with the 13 inch barbie style.
– Design your cake! I like to sketch mine out. Decide what the shape of you want to carve the skirt (leave it full or carve an A-line). Then will you be adding slits, or ripples to the skirt…
– Decide what aspects of the skirt/dress will be fondant and what colors you’ll need as well as what other techniques will you be using? Airbrush, hand painting, stencils and royal icing, fondant (clay) extruder…
– To prepare your doll get it undressed and use plastic wrap to hold the legs together – this keeps the cake food safe, and makes it easier to slide into the cake.
– Wrap up her hair so it’s out of the way. You can use a rubber band or I just use more plastic wrap, it also protects her hair and face from the airbrush.
– Bake your cakes – I use this wonder mold pan to get the beginning of a dress shape but you can always stack round cakes and carve from there. The wonder mold is too short on it’s own so I also bake and stack a 2 -3 inch round 8 inch cake to the bottom.
– I recommend a nice dense cake for carving. If the cake is to fluffy and light it just crumbles as you carve. I use my Chocolate cake recipe (just the cake, not the frosting) One full recipe makes one wonder mold and one 8 inch cake.
– Cut a hole in the center of the cake, down to the bottom and slide the princess down inside. Then start carving your skirt
– For the frosting use a straight ganache (2 to 1 ratio), not the ganache buttercream. It goes on like frosting but as it cools and sets it gets firm and will hold the details of the cake as you add the fondant and other details later.
– Next determine the order of your decorating. Are you starting with the sleeves or the skirt. How thick or thin do you want each layer (super thin for sleeves, thicker for areas like the skirt).
– Mix any fondant colors or paint colors you need to make. Start by making small amounts of the color to test what mixture it takes to get the color you want. Then make enough for the whole cake – You don’t want to have to try to match a second batch after you’ve already started.
– Cut any stencils you want to use. I tried stencil material (that you use a wood burner to cut) it was too thick and stiff. Then I used my circut to cut some martha stewart sticky stencil material but it was also too stiff and wasn’t sticky enough. Finally I tried normal vinyl and it worked the best.
– Make and color your royal icing. You don’t want it to be thick. More on the color flow side of things so when you pull the stencil away it leaves it more smooth less rough. I always do a test run on some rolled out fondant to test it vs doing it right on the cake.
– When using an airbrush gun multiple light layers is always better than going to dark to begin with. Hold the gun further away for a wider spray, and super close for a distinct line.
– Also the airbrush over sprays a TON – like you’ll have a thin layer of paint mist over everything, I’d recommend covering everything with plastic wrap you can just ball up and toss, otherwise you’ll be wiping the counter a week later and still be getting up blue paint!
– If you are going to be doing any piping with the royal icing I recommend using parchment paper triangles to make the piping bag, you can get it very small and I find it easier to pipe details vs a large plastic bag.
– I use wafer paper for additions like capes – things that need to stand away from the body, or things that only partially attach to cakes. It’s still edible so I don’t mind using it!Paragraph
– To color the wafer paper to match I use an airbrush gun. Now liquid effects wafer paper, so do a light layer to start with – it will curl the paper. Just flip the paper over and paint another light layer on the other side and the paper will curl the other way. Repeat until you are happy with the color and let dry – the paper will flatten out!
To make this Princess cake you’ll need
- Cake recipe
- Wonder mold cake pan
- Ganache recipe
- Fondant – I used satin ice purple, pink, black, orange, yellow, brown and green
- Fondant mat
- Fondant rolling pin
- Electric pasta roller
- Fondant tools
- Clay Extruder
- small shape knife
- Pizza cutter
- Paper towels
- Royal icing recipe – with gold gel food dye and black gel food dye
- Piping bag – I use parchment triangles for royal icing
- Stencil SVG files (below), with a cricut cutter and vinyl
- Fondant glue or clear alcohol
- Small angled frosting spatula
- Paint brushes (ones I only use for cakes)
Frozen 2 Anna Princess Cake
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If you love This Anna Cake you’ll love these other Frozen recipes!
Frozen 2 Elsa Princess Cake | Frozen 1 Anna Princess Cake | Frozen 1 Elsa Princess Cake
Olaf Caramel Pears | Kristoff’s Jello Ice Blocks | Snow Globe Ring
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Frozen 2 Anna princess Cake tutorial
A cake decorating video tutorial making this detailed Anna princess cake from Frozen 2
Materials
- Cake recipe
- Ganache recipe
- Burgundy food airbrush paint - or burgundy gel dye watered down with alcohol
- Fondant - I used satin ice purple, black, orange, yellow brown, pink, and white
- Royal icing recipe - gold food dye, black food dye
- Fondant glue or clear alcohol
Tools
- Wonder mold cake pan
- Fondant mat
- Fondant rolling pin
- Electric pasta roller
- Fondant tools
- small shape knife
- Pizza cutter
- Clay extruder
- Paper towels
- Piping bag - I use parchment triangles for royal icing
- Stencil SVG files (below), with a cricut cutter and vinyl
- Small angled frosting spatula
- Paint brushes (ones I only use for cakes)
Instructions
- Level the cake and stick together with the ganache - freeze the cake for carving
- Cut out the center hole, about 1 1/2 inches through both cakes
- Wrap the doll's legs to easily insert into the cake
- Carve the skirt from the waist to the bottom edge creating an A-line shape to the skirt
- Carve the front of the skirt a little flatter than the rest.
- Carve a deep crevice on the right side for her skirt opening and add smaller cuts "ripples" around the skirt.
- Cover the cake with ganache and let it set completely.
- Roll out some chartreuse fondant (made with a orange, yellow and a touch of green) and using a fondant tool press it into the large crevice for the inside of her skirt opening.
- Roll out a thin gold fondant and add it as her blouse with the slit in the front and add her blouse high neck collar.
- Roll out a large sheet of black fondant and add around her skirt with the opening over by the crevice side. Smooth over the skirt, including into the small ripples, and trim around the crevice and along the bottom.
- smooth the cut edges, round the corners and flip the corners up a little for movement.
- Roll out more black fondant and cut and attach her bodice and sleeves.
- Take some light brown fondant and roll it thin cut a wide to thin belt and wrap it around your skirt, add some long end tags and a round little knot
- roll out some thing chartreuse fondant and attach a thin line down the sleeves and around the wrist, and for neckline details on the shirt.
- Thin down some burgundy edible paint and add diamonds at her wrist and neck.
- Take some chartreuse fondant and add some shortening to soften it. Using an extruder squeeze out a long thin rope and attache it all around the edges of the cake skirt - making sure to bring it up in spots for little rounded edging details.
- Make some royal icing and dye some black and some gold.
- Gently stick the stencils onto the cake (bodice and skirt) - fill out the form above to get the svg files sent to you
- Add a thin layer of gold royal icing over the stencil and pull away leaving the design on the cake
- Add more gold royal icing to a piping bag (I prefer parchment bags for royal icing) and pipe small dots down the sleeves and a larger dot at her neck (for a broach)
- Roll out some plum fondant (I used purple pink and a touch of black for this color) and attach the cape in 5 different pieces. I started at the back, then did both front pieces and finally the back side pieces. Attach at the top and bottom of each panel and make sure to ripple the bottom so it has movement. You can use paper towels to hold some in place while it dries.
- Now using the stencils again add the design to the back of the cape and along the bottom where you can.
- Take down her hair and your done!
Janice Gray
Hi, just watching your toffee recipe,being in Australia we don’t have corn syrup would golden syrup work as well, Jan
Ashlee Marie
you can actually leave it out – growing up I never used corn syrup in the recipe. It just helps keep it from getting grainy. I know golden syrup can be substituted for corn syrup in quite a few recipes I don’t know if it helps with candy making like corn syrup does. But it shouldn’t hurt anything.