The do it yourself Barbie Doll Princess Cake

Ok people. This is how you make the Barbie Cake:


First you bake three cakes in three sizes, one bigger than the other, so that you can stack them one on top of the other...




Then you mix some cream and butter with sugar and whip it all up really smooth. This is going to be the "glue" for your cake.



Now to make the "fondant icing" or the edible sugar play dough to wrap all over the cake- You take quarter cup water and dissolve a tablespoon of gelatin in it ( by warming it in the microwave). Then, in a saucepan, boil one and a quarter cup sugar with one third cup water. This is thick sugar syrup. To this, add a teaspoon of vanila essence, and a tablespoon of glycerine. Mix all this together. So basically, you have a mixture of gelatin, sugar syrup, vanilla essence, and glycerine.



Put a kilo of icing sugar into a bowl and make a hole in the centre. Pour the liquid mixture ino the centre of this and start kneading...

Tada! Here is your sugar play dough.

Now make the fondant into balls and put a bit of food colour into them. I wanted light pink and dark pink, so have accordingly added colour...

The fondant should be kneaded till the food colour mixes completely and is even.




It is very important to seal the fondant in cling wrap or a plastic bag to prevent it from drying out.


Now let's prep the cakes. Take the biggest round first and coat it with the butter-cream-sugar mixture.


Be generous with the coating.


Stack the next round on top of the base.


By the way, to make sure the cake holds together well, it is a good idea to put some toothpicks into the cakes and poke them down. Make sure you don't choke on the toothpicks though, heh heh...


There is the last round going on top of the stack.


Now take a clean plastic sheet. I didn't have one available, so I cut open a large plastic bag.


Roll out the fondant. It will be like chapathi dough.


To make sure that the skirt "undulates", take strip of rolled fondant and make little pillars. Line the sides of the cake.



Here is the dark pink fondant for the front of the doll's skirt.


Put it on one side of the cake. It will drap well and the butter-cream icing will act like a glue.


Now roll out and cut the light pink fondant and cover the sides of the cake.


At this point, your cake should look like this.



Now cut a little hole in the centre of the cake. Remove the legs of the doll and insert it into the hole. Roll a little fondant and wrap it around the doll's hip to make a belt.


Tada! Now go impress people with your cake! Happy Baking everyone! :-)