This one is for my DD birthday; it is my first attempt at a Barbie cake. I have been teaching myself cake decorating for the past year and I think this one is one of my best! I used 3 8″ rounds, stacked and frosted in-between each layer. The top layer was baked in my … Read more

My nieces are very into the Fairies. My niece Olivia wanted a Barbie Fairy Topia Birthday Cake. I have done other similar cakes, like Barbie using a special doll top that can be purchased at a craft store that is designed for use on a cake. They have as spike instead of legs. This would … Read more

I made this Belly Dance Barbie Birthday Cake for a 50th birthday party for a friend who is a professional belly dancer. The cake was chocolate and there was chocolate frosting under the plastic icing. I covered the skirt with edible glitter. The beaded bra and belt were both hand stitched. My friend’s favourite flowers … Read more

I made this Barbie Mariposa cake for a friend’s daughter. She is really into Barbie and Mariposa had just come out at the time. I used a fairy Barbie instead of the Mariposa Barbie because of the size of the wings on the Mariposa Barbie. I used the Wilton doll mold for this cake. I … Read more

This was my first Barbie cake. I’m kinda new to the whole cake decorating thing, especially fondant. The dress is made of an easy marshmallow fondant recipe. 1 cup mini marshmallows 1 tablespoon water microwave for 20 seconds add 1 1/2 cup confection sugar knead with a spoon until mixed then knead with hands until … Read more

I made this Barbie Princess Cake for a friend’s daughter’s 7th birthday. The cake itself is made of basic Madeira cake but I found that I needed more cake so I baked another pan of chocolate. The layers inside are therefore alternate yellow and chocolate with Swiss meringue buttercream for icing. The gown body is … Read more

I made this Homemade Dolly Cake for a teacher leaving school. It is a vanilla cake. The back is covered in fondant icing and the front in butter icing which I coloured. I then sprinkled the whole thing in masses of glitter. The cake I baked I did in a large perspex bowl to get … Read more

This Pink Barbie Birthday Cake Design is a cake I did for my partner’s niece for her 5th birthday. I started by baking a 10oz sponge in a sandwich tin, and a 6oz sponge in a glass bowl, and left these to cool for a day. To hold these together I used butter icing. Once … Read more

These Princesses Birthday Cake was a cake that a friend asked me to make for her daughter and her daughter’s girlfriend. They were sharing a birthday party at a playground and thought it would be nice to have both little girls on the cake. I decided that THEY should be the cake. It was a … Read more

I made this Barbie Doll birthday cake for my daughter’s 6th birthday, when she was still really into dolls, princesses and the like. The doll was purchased at a craft store, and it is torso-head, with no legs. This was important because I didn’t want to dismantle a Barbie doll or jam 2 legs into … Read more

This Barbie Doll 4th Birthday Cake was made for my eldest daughter’s 4th birthday (she is totally Barbie crazy). I started out by making a basic vanilla cake mix following a standard cake recipe and put it in a greased pyrex bowl. However, this cake did not turn out well and I couldn’t get it … Read more

I had one of these doll cakes as a little girl on my birthday. So my niece was turning 15 and I decided to make her a Barbie dress cake. First I purchased a Barbie doll. Next I gave her hair a beautiful updo. Then I added edible pearls to her tiara. Then I created … Read more