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Grease and flour your cake pans. You want to use 3 8-inch round cake pans and one ovenproof glass bowl. Frost the top layer of your cake. Place a layer on top. Frost it. Place a layer on top. Frost it. Place the cake made in the bowl on top of it so the dome side is up.
I covered the pretty section with some luster dust and then to bring out the detail I painted the lines with a paint brush and clear vanilla! (notice I rolled up her 16 inch long hair and using a twist tie kept it out of her face, and out of the way while I worked on the dress!)
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Get creative with decorations! You can use sprinkles or any shape or size, piping gels, or any other fun sugary ingredients you can find. I think I might have impressed myself with this one. At least at 2 a.m. when I finished up, I thought it might be my best culinary masterpiece to date. BONUS DIY PROJECT – Make Gerbera Daisy Flower Hair clips (I got some alligator clips and hot glued them on and gave them to all the girls at the party, and used the others on the Rapunzel braid we made)
Separate your frosting into bowls, color with food coloring, then cover with a damp cloth until ready to use so the frosting doesn’t dry out. Find your “molds”.The “skirt” of the cake is baked in one or two 8″ cake pans and an oven-safe glass bowl (or two glass bowls, one medium-sized and one small sized). That’s all you’ll need for the base of the cake, or the skirt. Get creative with what you have. Just make sure the bowls you are using are oven safe. A ceramic or stoneware mixing bowl will work great. The size of cake will fit any Barbie-size princess doll or Barbie doll.
While planning for a LOT of frosting on the outside, I decided that a lighter filling would be best. I made a batch of my mascarpone whipped cream. The cake would be frosted purple, so what better accent color inside the cake – than homemade blueberry jam filling! Whipped cream and blueberries – YUM! Don’t let the frosting of this cake intimidate you. We made this basic 4-ingredient, 10-minute fondant recipe, colored it bright pink, and draped it over the cake. We used a small decorating tip to pipe some buttercream “pearls” on the dress and kept it very simple. You can add ribbon, icing, sprinkles, or any other edible decorations you like! What Frosting is Best?
Photo Disclaimer: – Images used in this article are owned by the respective individuals, artists, or other parties who post on their private social media accounts. These images only serve as an inspiration and cannot be copied (images or designs) for personal use. When using a fruit filling such as this blueberry jam, it’s important to keep it contained by piping a circle of frosting around the cake, before adding the jam, then top with a thin layer of whipped topping. Too much, and this will leak out the sides of the cake! Less is more! Now using a sharp knife trim the bodice into shape! Remember you can do any princess you want, so use the colors and bodice shape of the princess your trying to make. For the skirt, we did 2 colors. The top color was more heavy on the blue and the bottom was heavier on the lavender color. To get the “hombre” look, we filled one pastry bag with the blue, another one with the purple and then put BOTH bags (no tips in either bag) in one bag with the star tip. That way the two colors combined without mixing too much. It gave it more of a swirled look.Easy project, Fast (my nearly 4 year old and I made it together. We laid out all the yarn across the house and made a giant braid, then added some flowers…) For the Elsa Barbie doll birthday cake we used a Barbie that had a painted on body and a skirt (instead of a full dress). This made it super easy to decorate. We mixed Sky Blue and Lavender food coloring to get the right colors. We kept adding color a drop at a time until it matched Elsa’s bodice colors. Stir flour mixture into the batter alternating with the milk. Do NOT FORGET TO ADD ALL THE MILK. I did, and they were a little on the dhry side. For the skirt, we did 2 colors. The top color was more heavy on the blue and the bottom was heavier on the lavender color. To get the “ombre” look, we filled one pastry bag with the blue, another one with the purple and then put BOTH bags (no tips in either bag) in one bag with the star tip. That way the two colors combined without mixing too much. It gave it more of a swirled look. In your big bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and dry strawberry gelatin until light and fluffy chunks.
I’ve seen some amazing characters created for cakes – most made out of fondant. They are truly works of art! But few can sculpt these beauties for their own cakes made at home. So for this cake, I used a toddler doll version of Rapunzel, which I bought at my local Walmart. It even came with her adorable little chameleon friend Pascal!! This helped create an amazing cake for a 3 year old, and she can have the doll and toy to play with later! You can also use our homemade cake mix recipe if you don’t want to use store-bought. This easy recipe just uses cake flour (or all purpose flour), sugar, baking powder, salt, and shortening. Add eggs, milk, and butter to the mixture to make your cake batter. Lightly frost the cake before piping or decorating. This is called a “crumb coat”. It adds strength to the cake once the decorating icing is applied and keeps unwanted crumbs from being seen. Next up? The sleeves. Her dress has sheer sleeves. Since I can’t get completely sheer I did roll it out as thin as I could, see… You can see the writing through the fondant. Cut it down to strips, about the width of the arm. Paint it with clear vanilla and carefully wrap it around her arms. Trim the edges under the arm!
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I filled my squishy cake decorating tubes with frosting and put the princess dress that was my pattern, next to me on the counter. I started with the inside fold of her skirt and used a spatula with the lighter frosting to create the triangle. I covered the rest of the cake with the darker color. Instead of angleing the legs I make one additional 9″ round cake layer and put it below the wilton mold cake. This usually means doubling the recipe. Shear the tops of your cakes so that they have an even surface. A serrated knife works best, and if you freeze them for about 45 minutes, that will help keep crumbs to a minimum. DON’T freeze these overnight, and DON’T wrap them in waxed paper and freeze together until they are completely cooled. Even if they feel like they are, don’t believe it. As you might guess, I did both of the above and spent a considerable amount of time (and cut myself repeatedly in the process) of trying to separate the frozen cakes. I had to overcome a few structural issues in constructing this cake. First of all, I had to secure a long wooden skewer to the doll, under her dress. This would be inserted deep into the cake (about 3″), so I wouldn’t have to worry about the doll tipping over! I secured it with 2 zip ties, TIGHTLY under the dress. For any of the Barbie cakes what we need to start with is start at the inside/bottom and work your way out/up! So the underskirt is where we’re starting.
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