Frozen themed chocolate cake

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DD is looking forward to a Frozen themed cake for her birthday (after seeing one for a party last weekend), I'm not so much as I'm going to have to try and make the thing.

However she also wants it to be chocolate and I'd prefer not to use royal icing as no one likes it.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a chocolate cake suitable for decorating and any ideas about whether I can get buttercream to look ok? Or maybe some sort of cream cheese frosting?

I did a princess castle cake for her last year which she was hugely impressed by and now thinks I can bake. (I knew I should have done something easier last year as lots of under my breath swearing involved last year).

www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Cake-Decorating-/57211/i.html?_from=R40&_dcat=57211&Type=Cake%2520Toppers&_nkw=frozen&rt=nc&LH_PrefLoc=1

White chocolate buttercream and white chocolate curls (DF had a wedding cake that looked a bit like a spiky ice castle done like this)

Big cake, small cake, bun (or piece Swiss roll) lots of white chocolate curls. Elsa on the castle the others on the cake board looking up. Loads of white sparkle dust from a cake shop. Brilliant stuff lasts forever and comes out every Christmas.

I usually add cocoa powder to a vanilla cake mix to make it chocolate.

You could cover the cake with fondant icing (sometimes called ready to roll or regal ice). I do a crumb coat which is a thin layer of buttercream over the outside which is left to set before putting the fondant on. It stops crumbs getting on the icing and gives it something to stick to.

There are frozen cake toppers on eBay. You could cover the cake in light blue fondant with some edible glitter and then put the figures on top.

Thanks for the replies.

I've some Frozen figures now on order from ebay to put on the top of the cake. (DD birthday isn't for a while I'm just getting ready early!).

I hadn't thought of white chocolate buttercream - DD would like that. I'm sure I've seen blue and white glitter dust, in Asda last year, so that would look good.

I think it's a balancing act with birthday cakes.

When they are 4/5/6 they were show off pieces to make the children and the other mum's say that looks good (I'm not good enough for wow, but I've done some reasonable ones). Decoration can be all over coloured shop fond an as it just goes in party bags to be binned or fed to dad's.

However once we swapped to smaller house parties, we tended to go with butter cream, chocolates and sweets. Cakes that tasted good as the guests ate them while their crafts dried.

Fondant (why does autocorrect split words)