Here is the Barbie Cake tutorial in case any of you would ever like to make one! It is a really easy cake to make, but makes a nice presentation. I made one for Madelyn a couple years ago and decided to make one for Caroline this year. I am by no means a professional cake decorator. I just have fun playing!
Keeping it real! Yes, I am a very messy cook much to my husbands
chagrin. : ) He usually follows behind me and cleans up my mess.
First, bake one cake in an oven safe bowl. I used a
Pyrex medium sized bowl and it held one cake mix perfectly. I also made two 8 inch round cakes as well with another mix. After the cakes have completely cooled, make your icing. Combine 1 1/2 c. shortening, 2 lbs sifted powdered sugar, 1/2 c. water and a little vanilla. Beat until blended. Add desired food coloring. I used the Wilton gel for a bolder color.
Now, start assembling the cake. I used store bought icing in between the layers. I wanted to make sure that I had enough of the blue icing to keep a uniform color on the cake. Stack the round cakes and then add the bowl cake on top.
The diameter of my round cakes was larger than the bowl cake so I trimmed them to match.
Now it's time to create a space for the doll. Using a knife, cut a circle out of the middle of the cake reserving leftover pieces. Ariel was still a little tall so I kind of just shoved her legs so she was kind of sitting in the cake. : )
Now you can fill in around her waist with reserved cake to fill in the hole. Oh - I also wrapped her legs with saran wrap to keep her clean!
I then covered the cake with the crumb layer, again using the store bought icing.
Now for the fun! Fill a pastry bag with your colored icing and using a star tip pipe onto the skirt. I started at her waist and worked down, leaving a triangular shape in the front to add detail to the dress.
After piping all the light blue, I added a little more food coloring to the remaining icing and piped the front triangular portion. I had some icing left so I added little dark blue stars over the skirt. Also pipe a top for the doll.
Since there is not really a good place for candles, I piped 4 large stars onto the cake stand to hold the candles.
The day of the party I sprinkled some blue edible glitter on the cake and added the candles.
Here is the Barbie Cake tutorial in case any of you would ever like to make one! It is a really easy cake to make, but makes a nice presentation. I made one for Madelyn a couple years ago and decided to make one for Caroline this year. I am by no means a professional cake decorator. I just have fun playing!
Keeping it real! Yes, I am a very messy cook much to my husbands chagrin. : ) He usually follows behind me and cleans up my mess.
First, bake one cake in an oven safe bowl. I used a Pyrex medium sized bowl and it held one cake mix perfectly. I also made two 8 inch round cakes as well with another mix. After the cakes have completely cooled, make your icing. Combine 1 1/2 c. shortening, 2 lbs sifted powdered sugar, 1/2 c. water and a little vanilla. Beat until blended. Add desired food coloring. I used the Wilton gel for a bolder color.
Now, start assembling the cake. I used store bought icing in between the layers. I wanted to make sure that I had enough of the blue icing to keep a uniform color on the cake. Stack the round cakes and then add the bowl cake on top.
The diameter of my round cakes was larger than the bowl cake so I trimmed them to match.
Now it's time to create a space for the doll. Using a knife, cut a circle out of the middle of the cake reserving leftover pieces. Ariel was still a little tall so I kind of just shoved her legs so she was kind of sitting in the cake. : ) 
Now you can fill in around her waist with reserved cake to fill in the hole. Oh - I also wrapped her legs with saran wrap to keep her clean!
I then covered the cake with the crumb layer, again using the store bought icing.
Now for the fun! Fill a pastry bag with your colored icing and using a star tip pipe onto the skirt. I started at her waist and worked down, leaving a triangular shape in the front to add detail to the dress.
After piping all the light blue, I added a little more food coloring to the remaining icing and piped the front triangular portion. I had some icing left so I added little dark blue stars over the skirt. Also pipe a top for the doll.
Since there is not really a good place for candles, I piped 4 large stars onto the cake stand to hold the candles.
The day of the party I sprinkled some blue edible glitter on the cake and added the candles.
7 comments:
Awesome! Looks like fun, and yummy too! I so remember this from my childhood!
You make it look so easy, but it would SO not look like that if I tried! LOL Looks like Caroline had a great princess party!
So cool! I know Leslie would love a cake like this...just not sure I'm talented enough to pull it off! :)
I remember this cake from childhood too and I always wondered how it was made. Of course as I child I thought it was magic or something! You did a terrific job!
What a cute cake! Too bad Katherine is not very girly.....she gets excited over power tools! ha! ;-)
Well I enjoyed reading how to make it though I hope none of my boys ever asks for a barbie cake!!! Barbie's arms cracked me up, they kept moving! Especially at the end, like she was saying "ta-da!".
Great job! The boys had fun at the party!
Very impressive Cara!
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