* thick sponge cake * buttercream * jam * sugarpaste icing * sugar decorations * a plastic doll * cling film
Step 2: Shape the cake Use a sharp knife to trim the top rim of the cake at an angle to create a dome. Cut an indent into the top of the dome.
Step 3: Buttercream Cover the whole cake in buttercream using a pallette knife. The buttercream will help the sugarpaste to stick to the cake.
Step 4: Icing Roll out a sheet of sugarpaste icing. When it's flat, roll enough back onto the pin so that you can pick it up. Carefully drape the sheet of icing over the cake, leaving it hanging loose to the edge of the board. If you need to, tweak the loose icing to emphasis the folds and make it look more like a skirt.
Step 5: The princess Remove the doll's legs - they should just pop off quite easily. Roll her skirt up on itself, and wrap her lower torso in cling film. Make an incision in the icing above the indent at the top of the dome. Push the doll through this incision, into the top of the cake.
Step 6: Decorate Decorate the princess's skirt using sugar decorations. We've used some sugar roses around her waist, and sugar hearts and crystals on the body of the skirt. Stick them to the icing using edible sugar glue - this is available from any good sugarcraft or baking supplier.
Note From Grandpa Mike
Jan:
Your Princess doll cake is very creative.
Imagine your little princess having this special cake at their birthday party.
Here are birthday party supplies for themes that work perfectly with this Princess doll cake.
1st Birthday Princes
Your little one's 1st birthday will make lots of great memories for you, your birthday child and your entire family.
Cinderella
Cinderella would be proud to have this fun cake. Take a look at these Cinderella party supplies.
Disney Princess
And here are some colorful party supplies for a Disney Princess birthday party.
Pink Princess
Oh-so-cute, and pretty in pink, these Pink Princess birthday party supplies will match your Princess doll cake just right.
