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Princess Barbie Cake 104
by Elaine Penner
(Niverville, MB, Canada)
Princess with Birthday Cake
I made this princess Barbie cake for my daughter's 4th birthday party. I used some ideas from this website and some tips I learned in the Wilton books.
I made a cherry box cake in the Wilton pan (make sure you grease and flour the pan and core really really well). I put the dolls hair up using saran wrap so it was out of the way. Using buttercream icing, I iced the doll pick's bodice with a very small butter knife.
I set the doll pick in a piece of Styrofoam to 'dry'. I placed the cake on a tall pedestal cake stand to give it an elegant look, this also helped with decorating and saved my back. I smooth iced the cake and then set in the doll pick. Once the dress part set up a little I used a piece of parchment paper to smooth out the icing a little more and then began the detail decorating.
Using a petal tip I made the ruffle around the bottom of the skirt and created the bustle at the back of the cake. Using the flat side of a very small basket weave tip I piped the trim on the top of the dress and around the waist. I then used a #1 tip and piped a series of 'c's and 's's to create the dress detail. I worked from the top down in small sections and filled in the areas that needed it at the end.
I took a dollar store birthday cake shaped candle and glued it to a foil wrapped piece of cardboard. I secured it to the cake with wooden skewers cut down to fit and criss-crossed at the cake. Make sure you do this far enough down the cake so there is more skewer in the cake then out and don't put the cut/broken ends into the cake.
I also added a few extra toothpicks just to be sure nothing was visible from the front of the cake. I used the #1 tip and piped a necklace and bracelet on the doll and took her hair out of the saran wrap. I styled her hair and added a crown from a knockoff Barbie I had bought. All in all this was a fairly easy cake to make and the girls loved it.
