Sunday Sweets: Pretty As A Princess
January 16, 2011 
Submitted by Cathy & found at the 2010 Royal Adelaide Show; baker unknown.
Sub'd by Shanna R., made by Jane Asher Party Cakes
Sub'd by Jessica P., made by Maria Luisa Mijares Arte y Reposteria(Seriously, how amazing is that painting? Gorgeous!)
I have to stop the story now, or else I may never get to this next fondant-free beauty:
By crazebake cakes and cupcakesOk, so she's not technically a Princess, but Tink and her forest cottage here are still royally awesome.
Now, clap your hands if you believe in eating fairies!!
Wait. I think that came out wrong.
Made by Say It With CakeWell, it's not.
'Cuz I still have to show you this FABULOUS fishbowl design for The Princess and the Frog:
Submitted by CW Reader Kathryn L. and made by her daughter and niece.I'm thinking of asking this cake to marry me. I hope John won't mind.
Next, a cutie-patooty mini-cake:
Sub'd by Tifany D., made by Cupcake EnvyNow, I realize that Disney has the corner on the Princess market, but we geek girls will always have a special place in our hearts for Mario's Princess Peach:
Sub'd by Vin, made by Chica And JoBob-OMB!
And check it out: the blue gems are handmade hard candies! Power up!
And finally, ONE SWEET TO RULE THEM ALL:
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CCC Final Tally!
However, I should point out there was a distinct downward trend: the first three days of the CCC each charity had over $3,000 donated, the next five or so, around $2,000, and after that, they just barely cleared $1,000 each.
Obviously we all were very busy, and many of us were away from our computers for the holiday, so this isn't surprising. Still, if you started off the countdown but weren't able to finish, please, feel free to catch up! All twelve donation pages are still live, and your dollars can still make a huge difference. Just go to the Cake Wrecks FirstGiving page to see the complete list, along with links to give a dollar to any you might have missed.
And thank you all again for your amazing generosity. John and I are proud beyond belief to count you among our loyal Wrecky henchpersons.
Now, back to conquering the world! If you please.
Update from john: Some people think the crown on the last one is Snow White's or the Evil Queen's. However, the Queen's didn't have rubies and, from what I can tell, Snow White's is a round diamond tiara. And I'm a large, scruffy man in construction clothes sitting at the computer researching Disney Princesses. Which is pretty darned cool. -j
Reader Comments (113)
The crown symbolizes the overall theme of the cake, royalty/princesses. The layers of princesses are so good, but yet it feels awkward...
...like someone took a slice of of each princess, stole a crown, and was going to feed it to a witch. BUT that's just me.
~Aaryn J.
Dude, that 5 year old has one awesome cake. I hope my wedding cake can compete to that. Geez!
Since when would Belle get top billing over the original Disney princess, Snow White?
The bottom layer is most definitely Snow White, red bow and all.
Wendy
Check out that Little Mermaid cake! See, cupcakes aren't evil by nature, they just tend to turn on people when they're mistreated.
Poking head out from under the table.
That Princess and the Frog cake has to be the prettiest thing I've ever seen! Wow!
Now I'm going back to hide from the Epcot!
Jen you can make your own Snow White crown. http://family.go.com/disney/pkg-disney-crafts/craft-598551-snow-white-crown-t/
My faith in airbrushing has been restored.
As a self-professed Disney-ophile (who should probably seek a 12 step program immediately!) this is my theory. The top of the multi layered princess cake IS the Evil Queen's crown, which would have logically become Snow White's after she fell off the cliff at the end of the movie. Every doll in our house of Snow White (that doesn't have her wearing the red bow) has her wearing a pointed gold crown decorated with a red stone of some sort, so I guess that makes sense. And I guess that would also make the bottom layer Belle, as Snow White's dress isn't ruffled like that anywhere on it.
I was thinking Ursula on the crown as well, and I don't know a thing about princesses. But someone pointed out that hers is sans jewels...
I agree that the last cake is
Belle (yellow ruffles)
Snow White (red bow)
Cinderella (blue)
Arielle (seashells)
Aurora (pink/white)
Jasmine (headdress - some pictures do show her in green)
Maybe the crown is just supposed to be a generic princess crown? Can't seem to find a specific Disney princess that it fits.
(If you enlarge this picture below, Jasmine is definitely in green.)
http://www.drrobynsilverman.com/body-image/a-challenge-to-all-the-hype-over-disney-princesses/
I think the crown on the last cake looks like the one Snow White's stepmother wears, but of course, doesn't deserve.
The unknown crown actually looks the most like the one the Evil Queen from Snow White wears.
I think the green one is Princess Tiana. Isn't the crown Princess Jasmine? She's one of the main Princess's and hasn't even been mentioned.
They spelled my name wrong on the Ariel cake! It's Kaitlyn, not Caitlyn. Also, I'm not 3--but if we flip the 5 around the right way, we can fudge it to 23...
My guess is the green layer is for Jasmine and they screwed up. Does Jasmine ever wear green? I don't think so. But the design is exact excepting for the non-shiny stone. And the crown topper is most similar to the Evil Queen's except for the rubies.. huh.
The crown on the last cake looks like the evil queen's from Sleeping Beauty. That one and the Princess Peach are my FAVE!
The top tier is definitely Snow White, NOT the evil queen's crown. If you look up "Snow White's Crown" in Google, you can see that her red bow is replaced by a pointy gold tiara with red stones.
The next tier is definitely Tiana. I've never seen Jasmine get included in the "Disney Princess" line up, and that is green, not aqua!
The obvious ones are left: Aurora, Cinderella, Ariel, and Belle.
=D
Jasmine always gets included in the princess line up. As mom of 2 girls, I get inundated with princess crap. That top green tier is definitely Jasmine. That's her headband.
The crown is the evil stepmother's in Snow White!
The crown on top looks like the evil stepmother's in Snow White!
I refuse to like any of the Aurora ones. Her dress is the wrong darn color!
yup do agreed with Dragon on Aurora dress color. Nevertheless these photos do bring me back to my childhood memories :) thanks for the good job.
At the end when Snow White trades in her red bow for her crown it looks alot like that one. not the evil queen's.
Actually I thought the crown was Queen Malificent's from Snow Wite. I don't quite recognize the green top layer with the sash, is that supposed to represent a Dwarf?
Another gorgeous series of cakes for a Sunday. I do love Sunday Sweets!
I was never into princesses, when I was five or... um, let's just say "five-plus". But I agree with @Craig-- I want a cake like this for my next birthday. So, in order to increase the odds, I now declare myself FIVE! (going on 40?).
That airbrushing, wow! The decorator is a real artist. I guess the cakes pay for the acrylics/oils/watercolour supplies? Because that person needs to work in some permanent (and less tasty) media too!
And Tinkerbell's house is just stunning. The work and detail are gorgeous. Paige/Ariel is lovely-- I agree, that's how cupcakes should be presented! And the two-bite size is brilliant for little kids.
I'm not sure how that cute mini-cake fits in with the theme, but it's lovely. (And dress forms do have shoulders and necks, for fitting of collared garments, but I agree this version with the lovely portrait neckline works sooooo much better for cake!). As a sewer, I particularly appreciated that one :)
The last cake's nice (and even *I* know the bottom layer is Belle, in the final scene, dancing on the beautiful marble floor), but it's a bit too vague for my taste since there's debate even here about which layer represents which princess. Although, I concede that it does take a lot of talent to do each of those layers that well, and have a cake that colourful and busy and still look good!
John's Googling of Disney princesses-- love that!
And wow, that's an awesome tally for the donations. Which reminds me, I forgot to make mine... off to get the ol' credit card...
WV "readise". What one has to do in order to figure out what the inscriptions on Cake Wrecks says. Except for on Sundays :) (Cross between "read" and "surmise")
I liked the cake with blue-brown-orange girls the most. Beautiful!
I wonder if there are any Mulan or Pocahontas...they're like semi-princesses or something, often included with them but not technical princesses. And now we have Tangled...can't wait to see what it inspires.
I don't like that Kiara seems to get left out all the time...she wasn't human but she was still a princess.
Oh, the Tiana cake is BEAUTIFUL. The theme fits so well with the film, with the water lily sand cat tails.
I think the top crown is supposed to be Belle's(sorry if I spelled that wrong) crown from beauty and the beast
The crown looks the most like Princess Aurora's (sleeping beauty) to me! Hers is gold with rubies on the 50th anniversary cover and I instantly recognized it, although it's a little different.
I want all those cakes. So pretty. I would put them behind glass and keep them pretty lol. Just like I suspect half these bakeries do with some display cakes that they use year after year..
Okay so I guess I will clear this up,the Princesses from top to bottom are-
Jasmine
Aurora
Ariel
Cinderella
Snow White
The crown is your everyday run of the mill crown, it doesn't represent any particular princess ,just added it as a cute topper.
Jasmines tier was made using Turquoise colored fondant.
When compared to Ariel's tier it is clearly not just *green*. Making her tier darker balanced out the cake and kept it from looking too pastel and washed out.
That's the beauty of my job, I get to be creative and switch things up when I want too, it's awesome.
So there you have it, the mystery of the Princess cake is solved.
Thank you for posting it on Sunday Sweets ,and thank you all for the lovely comments makes me feel all famous and stuff :)
Jessica aka It's A Piece Of Cake
the crown on the last cake looks kind of like the one the evil queen (from snow white) wears...
I had to look twice...isn't the little mermaid cake technically a *cupcake* cake?
i desperately want that aurora dress cake to turn around and be the exact same dress in blue!
I'm SO not a Disney chick, but I love the Fairies, and that cake ROCKS. I also love the Princess and the Frog one...too cute!
Love, Love, Love Tink's cottage! Too pretty to eat!
I agree with Jessica-Its a piece of Cake. That was the exact order I thought which caused me to say "Hey, where the hell is Belle?" Belle and Jasmine were always my favs. Other princesses that seem to be forgot are Pocahantas (her dad was chief) and Nahla! So what if she was a lion, she was still a princess!
I want it!!!
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THANK YOU Jessica for clearing that up! :) it was kinda making us all a little crazy. Your cake is BEAUTIFUL and I wish I wasn't all the way in Alaska for the next 4 years so I could have one similar to it. Maybe the Air Force will send us closer to civilization next time? :)
The crown in the last one is the crown of the evil queen from Snowwhite
I love the ladys reflection in the first picture lol. Priceless
Thanks so much for including our Princess Peach cake in your collection! Those gems you see on the cake are actually hard candy that we made ourselves. (Visit our site for free tutorial!)
they left out jasmine! she is my favorite disney princess!
I'm envious of anyone who receives one of these cakes, but most of all I'm envious of Jane Asher. Not only does she get to make fabulously gorgeous cakes, but she got to date Paul McCartney when he was the Cute Beatle! Sigh...
There are 10 official Disney Princesses. Mental_Floss even did a quiz based on it. I could only come up with 9 on my own, but my 3 year-old niece helped me with the last one. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/74744
I'm going to join the other posters in pointing out that dress forms do have necks. That one looks like a homemade pincushion- a cardboard cutout bodice and a gathered "skirt" over something round. It doesn't look one jot like it's on a dress form.
the green dress near the top is Tina and the crown reminds me of Malifisant from sleeping breuty, but I think its ment to remind us their all princesses.
Peg: yellow= snow-white
bule = cinderalla
pink aura ( sleeping beauty)
green Tina ...I think
I love these cakes!
I think the crown is an all-purpose crown to top off all the layers of princesses.
Absolutely love that forest scene.