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Coolest Southern Belle Doll Birthday Cake 253
by Marge H.
(Park Rapids, MN)
Homemade Southern Belle Doll Birthday Cake
My Granddaughter turned 3 this year. Several months ago I purchased a beautiful Collectible Porcelain Doll for her. It had a frilly lavender dress with a matching hat and purse. Of course it had her blond hair. So for her birthday I wanted to stay with that theme for the cake.
She wanted pink and purple on her homemade southern belle doll birthday cake. I started by sewing a white hat and added pink and purple lace to add the frill. Rather than using frosting for the bodice, I made a peasant style blouse for the doll and a pearl necklace out of craft beads. I mixed up 2 cake mixes and put about 1 1/2 in the dome shaped cake pan and the rest in a 9" round pan. I set the dome cake on the 9"round cake so the skirt would be longer (that way I didn't have to take the legs off the doll and I could just poke it into the cake).
I mixed up the butter cream frosting and covered the front of the skirt with smooth white frosting. Then used a small plain round tip to cover it with a white lacy design. I used a flower tip for the pink flowers on the skirt and added a pink ruffle on the bottom using the rose tip with little dots above the ruffle to add to the lacy effect.
The back overlay part of the skirt is all purple stars. It looks fancy but not really that difficult to decorate. I think most anyone could get an "Ah" from a special little (or big) girl.
