I made 2 trays of chocolate or vanilla cake for this Homemade Disney Princess Birthday Cake. Cut out circles of chocolate cake so that you can stack the various sizes on top of each other to create a ‘ballgown dress’ shape. I used buttercream to sandwich them together. Make sure you cut out a circle … Read more
I decided to try and make this Barbie Doll Birthday Cake Idea after my 4 year old saw one in the store and asked for it for her birthday. The cost of the cake in the store was $40, so I thought after the initial investment, I’d be able to save money in the long … Read more
I made this Homemade 7th Birthday Princess Doll Cake for my adopted daughter’s 7th birthday. I made one for my own daughter at about the same age, many years ago. I made layers of cake using a metal bowl to get the shape (about ¾ full) and ordinary round tins for the other layers. There … Read more
I made this Birthday Barbie Cake following the Betty Crocker Recipe. This was my first attempt to make one of these cakes. My daughter was turning 7 and said :Mom I would love to have a Barbie birthday party. So I saw this website and saw how everyone tried this. I didn’t use the Fondant. … Read more
This was a Princess Genevieve birthday cake for my daughter’s 5th birthday. For the cake I used a glass Anchor hocking medium sized bowl. I used 1.5 box cakes and added 2 extra eggs to increase the firmness. I made the top of the dress from colored fondant. The bodice was a rectangle piece of … Read more
I thought a Barbie cake with a pom-pom type dress would be easy and look nice. I used two boxed cake mixes, but would recommend 3 to make it. Use two round cake pans, and a 2 Qt. glass Pyrex bowl to make the rounded top. This combo will also give you identical size bottoms … Read more
Every little girl loves these types of Barbie cakes! My niece Lylah loved this one. First I took her shopping to pick out her doll. (The doll should always be brand new of course! And then you can give her the doll as part of her birthday present!) Wilton sells a cake pan specifically designed … Read more
Everything on this Barbie birthday cake is done with icing excluding the hat and the dolls upper body.s upper body.
I used a basic Madeira mix for the cake itself. I used double quantity. It took about 2 hours to bake. Once the cake was cooled I dug out a small hole in the top of the cake, just for the Barbie doll to fit in. I removed the legs and pushed her in. I … Read more
I made this Barbie skirt cake for my daughters second birthday (hence it’s only the second cake I’ve done). It is made using a normal round cake tin and then a molded ring tin on top to give the dress its shape. Barbie (minus her legs) then just sat in the hole in the top … Read more
I combined a lot of the ideas I found on this site for a Barbie doll birthday cake along with the ideas of a professional cake decorator. For the very bottom I used half a yellow cake mix (which crumbles less than other cake types) baked in a standard 9″ round cake pan. The middle … Read more
I made this Bratz cake for a friend’s daughter’s 5th birthday. It was quite daunting as a mum of 2 boys but I found lots of inspiration from this website. I baked 2 9inch cakes and sandwiched them with jam and buttercream. I coloured fondant icing pink and covered it. I then drew a picture … Read more