I made this little Mermaid cake for my daughters 6th birthday. It is made of a Pyrex bowl with a Barbie pick inserted. I used fondant for this cake. The tail is totally made of fondant with scales carved in with an apple corer. HINT: I found it really easy to color fondant in a … Read more
This mermaid cake was made using a doll pick. To get a realistic and interesting wave, I added two different shades when I piped it. The mermaid was shaped using fondant; the scales were marbleized fondant glued together.
I used butter cream to decorate this beautiful Lavender Lady Cake Design. I made the flowers for the hair and the border of the dress with parchment. It came out pretty good. I had fun making this cake for one of my friend’s daughter’s first birthday. Getting out the lavender color was pretty challenging for … Read more
First I found the most perfect Barbie for my sister in law because she loves fairies! This is a Mariposa Barbie but her wings were so beautiful I thought she would pass for a “fairy”! I used my standing mixer bowl and filled it with 3 cake mixes. I wasn’t prepared that the cake would … Read more
I used a dome cake mold and a star tip for all of the icing. I painted the Barbie’s face green! I made the hat out of orange construction paper! My friends all loved it and wanted to know how I did it.
For this Barbie Princess cake I started with two heart shaped pans and made the base (small heart on top of large heart). I then used a small dress pan that bakes four dresses at a time. I also purchased the small doll torso from Michaels. I tried matching hair color for each princess I … Read more
My daughter turned 3 this year and was very excited. Before bed she said to me “I’d really like a Barbie cake for when Grandma and Grandpa come tomorrow”. This was at 7:30 pm. How was I going to pull this off?! (I had been planning some cupcakes but this I was not ready for!) … Read more
This is a Theresa Barbie Birthday cake.I made 2 chocolate sponges and bought a small sandwich cake. I used jam to stick them together. I also trimmed the cakes to make them ‘dress-shaped’ and then smothered them in butter icing. I made a hole at the top of the cake to put Theresa in. Found … Read more
I made this Barbie cake for my cousin’s 6th birthday as she loves everything princess and pink! I cooked the cake in a Pyrex bowl, as we didn’t have a Wilton doll pan like most others on this site used. It took a lot longer to cook than my other cakes as the bowl was … Read more
I made this Barbie Doll cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. She LOVED it! I knew she would since she just adores Sleeping Beauty. I used this site for all my ideas & helpful tips. I used the Pampered Chef mixing bowl for the dress. I baked 2 cakes with it & cut the bottom … Read more
This Princess Doll Cake is a cake I made for a little girl’s communion. I made a chocolate cake (using 2 boxes of Betty Crocker’s Devil food cake) in a large Pyrex bowl. I then spread cake with choc fudge butter cream and covered it with white rolled out fondant. I modeled a bustier and … Read more
This Barbie Princess Cake was made for some friend’s twins 5th birthday. I used a pudding bowl for the base, used a Barbie doll with her legs removed, and secured her with lolly sticks. I then covered the cake in buttecream, and started building the frills up of the skirt from the bottom. I made … Read more