A Barbie cake will delight a girl who loves the dolls.
A little girl who is wild about Barbies may love a Barbie cake for her birthday or another special occasion. Rather than spending a lot of money to arrange for a bakery to make a specialty cake, you can save the cash and make a Barbie cake yourself. With the help of a few supplies, making the cake will be well worth the time spent. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Follow the instructions to bake one 9 inch by 13 inch sheet-cake mix. Do not bake the cake in a sheet-cake pan, however. Use a greased, curved pan because the cake will later become the bottom of Barbie's dress. If you do not have a curved pan, use a deep rectangular pan that you can cut in the shape of a dress bottom after the cake is baked.
2. After the cake has cooled, loosen it in the pan by running a butter knife along the sides. Carefully unmold the cake from the pan onto a sheet of parchment paper. Freeze the cake on the parchment paper for 15-20 minutes or until it feels firm.
Wipe the cake free of crumbs with a damp cloth. Keeping it on the sheet of parchment paper, use a sharp serrated knife to cut the sides of the cake at a curved angle. Your object is to form the cake into a curved cone, with the top being the point of the cone. Cut off the four corners of the cake first. Then use the serrated knife to shave off long pieces of cake until you are left with a long, curved cone.
When your cake is shaped properly, set it on a smooth surface or on parchment paper. Cut a narrow void of several inches deep in the center of the cake. Undress Barbie Island Princess completely and place her in the center of the cake. Her torso should be visible.
3. Wipe the cake free of crumbs again and freeze it for about 20 minutes. Mix two tones of blue buttercream icing, one light and one dark. You can do this by dividing premade vanilla buttercream icing into two bowls and tinting each with blue food coloring. Then, in the same way, mix two tones of pink buttercream icing. Use a flat spatula to spread light blue icing on the surface of the cake, completely covering it.
Transfer the light blue icing to a pastry bag to which you have attached a coupler and a round tip. Gently pipe icing on the top half of Barbie in the pattern and style of her Island Princess dress. Hold the pastry bag stiffly, squeeze gently and apply constant pressure. Make the wavy pattern on Barbie's dress by dipping the pastry bag up and down slowly to form the shape of ocean waves. Go all around the dress making one ring of waves, then pause. Make several rings up and down the dress.
4. Fill a pastry bag with light pink icing and use it to pipe frills on the dress. Frills can be made with a thin star pastry tip or a round tip. In the same up-and-down pattern that you used to make the waves, gently pipe frills on top of the blue waves. Make the frills slightly thicker than the blue waves by applying a bit more pressure to the pastry bag. Make more frills in the same way with dark pink icing to form a border around the light pink decorations. Add swirls or waves to the dress with the dark blue icing by using a star tip and piping gently in a circular motion before releasing the frosting. You can also pipe a message on the dress part of the cake by using a thin round tip. Apply gentle, constant pressure and write the message in cursive so that you can join each letter to the next.
5. Chill the cake if it was made in advance of the party. Before serving, let the cake sit at room temperature for at least two hours.
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