Frozen cake tutorial

So, I like making my daughter's cakes. They aren't professional but they're personal.
#1 1st
I bought the sheet cake but made the igloo and the critters .

2nd was cupcakes. I don't remember, I was pregnant. I probably put on a shit ton of frosting and called it good. She was 2, what is better than frosting?

3rd bday
She had a joint robot party with her cousin

For #2's first
All from scratch because of food allergies

This year she wanted a "pink cake with blue frosting " found a pink box cake for 99 cents that my younger daughter could also eat, and went from there. I could have left it at that. We were just doing cake at home. Easy right ?

I am a baking masochist. I went on Pinterest.

Since she's 4 I found a lot of adorable Frozen ideas. Next day she tells me"pink cake, blue frosting, with Starwars !"
Have you looked up Starwars cakes ? NOPE!! so far above my skill set. So I talked her into a cake with lego frozen and Starwars characters lol.

So first I made the sugar glass for the castle

Corn syrup, sugar , food coloring, vanilla, cream of tartar, heated up. No big deal right?

This made me nervous. My tutorial didn't have pictures. How the hell was this going to work??? This was a grainy, clumpy, mess.

Well hello there beautiful blue molten sugar. This was just a few minutes later. However in the length of time it took to take this picture it went from 300* to around 315. And it burned slightly giving the sugar a yellow gloss and making the glass green. Whatever. Was kind of funny eating something that was beer bottle green. (Note. It is also sharp. I stepped on a piece and actually drew blood. Be careful)
I poured it out on a baking sheet lined with sil pat and ignored it for an hour or so . I poured mine a little thick, but preferred working with the thin outer pieces . They still had opacity, the thicker ones really were like bottle glass.

So after this was frosting. You've made frosting yes? Awesome. Make frosting. Open a can. Whatever you'd like, and dye it blue.

So to make her cake I took a standard 9x13 and cut it like so

shoved the 2 ends together and put the square on top. (no, I cannot cut a straight line. And this cake was really fucking crumbly )
The 2 remaining pieces were sacrificed.
A moment of silence please.
Anyways, I threw a thin layer of frosting on to catch the crumbles and tossed it in the fridge.

Ok. So at this time I made at royal icing and spent an hour piping little snow flakes onto wax paper.

I also piped out "Happy birthday Brianna"
I also didn't know how long it took to dry and wound up breaking
Every.
Fucking.
One.
Don't do that.
Be patient .

Thankfully it wound up being over kill. And I had enough left in my bag to pipe it on the cake.

Oh and just to be clear I don't have fancy cake stuff. My "piping bags" are zip locks with a corner cut off, and the cake was frosted with a toddler butter knife from Ikea (surprisingly no assembly required).

So after your cake sits an hour, finish frosting it. I'm a pretty bad froster, and had 0 intention of making fondant. I had found a tutorial for using donut icing to look like snow icicles. I was getting lazy and tired and i didn't want to make donut icing, but I had some royal icing left over from the snowflakes. So I thinned it out and starting piping it on.
And then I regretted it immediately .
I texted some friends "this looks like someone splooged on the cake... what do I do?"

Thankfully with sanding sugar, some little white bead things , Lego characters, and the sugar glass castle, it all worked out in the end.

She loved it
It was delicious
Tada
Disney's 2 biggest money makers, in one cake.