Doll Cake - help

[kamath]

Does anybody have any tips on how to make a doll cake. I am on a mission to try and make a doll cake for my super girly daughter ! I am looking for a simple , quick and easy way if possible !

[bawdy-nan]

Really easy for pretty spectacular results and buttercream is your friend ...

Bake victoria sponge - if you can do it in slightly smaller diameter than normal cake tins then so much the better - or you could bake it in a large pudding basin (AJ Farmers) or,probably better still one layer of round sponge with the basin sponge on top for height. If not using basin on top you'll need to build layers and trim down to shape - but buttercream is your forgiving friend.

Put cake on board.

Get a cheap doll / barbiealike. Either - wash the legs / wrap in cling film or remove legs! cover cake in a layer of butter icing then decorate all over with swirls of icing and silver balls (or flowers or some such other cake decorations) - doesn't need to be perfect and you can use an icing bag and go abstract or get those little pre filled tubes.

Ta da! You totally win!

[kamath]

Fab - that is perfect ! thank you

[melbourne groover]

Best tip I read when doing shaped cakes (which I don't very often) is to do a thin layer of icing then put in the fridge for 10 mins or so to harden the icing and then you can pile the rest on!

Worked a treat!!

[Convex]

I would do fondant ready to roll, you still do a layer of buttercream though.

I'd love to do a doll cake. Might do one for my own birthday!

[bawdy-nan]

fondant for a smooth finish but buttercream every time for the that'll-do bodger

[Nunheadfamily]

I watched 8hours of youtube videos and made a fine one!

Used a glass basin to bake the cake in and fondont (ready rolled).

http://i1117.photobucket.com/albums/k599/Vcloves/imagejpg1_zpsaf572d0d.jpg

Definitely worth it to see my friend's daughter's joy.

[tiddles]

I did the pudding basin version which worked perfectly. I used ready roll icing

Which worked a treat - and I am a useless baker. Got the details

From an annabel karma party cakes book. Best of luck!

[kamath]

Excellent - feel prepared and ready to go now! Thank you x

[ryedalema]

I made one for my daughter's 5th birthday...

Did normal sponge but had about six layers in the end for height with thin layer of buttercream between each (note the thinner the layer of filling the less likely the cake is to 'move').

Then I carved it into a skirt shape and thinly buttercreamed the whole outside.

Put in the fridge for approx 20 mins

Used an apple corer to get a hole all the way down the middle (you don't need a much bigger hole than this).

Bought a Barbie/Sindy with a moulded top (ie you can use the their top half as is and remove their lower clothes)

Popped 'Madam Barbie' through the hole - so she's covered to waist height.

Fondant iced the outside and decorated with flowers etc- AND GLITTERED.

Job's a good-un! :)