Barbie Doll Cake

It's my first time to bake this Barbie Doll Cake for my daughter, Ashley, whom celebrated her 5th b'day on March 21, 2009 (Saturday).  I bought myself a Wilton doll cake set & I used my daughter's Barbie doll instead.

The Wilton doll cake pan is not tall enough for the whole Barbie Doll, so I needed to bake 2 set of deep round cakes for the bottom dress.  Else my doll cake might look funny as the doll & dress are not proportionate.

I baked this Barbie Doll Cake on the day itself early morning.   As my fridge is not big enough to put the whole Barbie Doll cake in it.  Give yourself a try!

Ingredients:
3 Boxes Premix Cake (Yellow cake) – Read Instruction for baking

Butter Icing

3 Blocks of butter ~ softened

1 tbsp vanilla essence

3-4 tbsp milk (your preference)

3 ¼ cups confectioners sugar

Directions:

1. Baked 3 premix cake as per the box’s instruction.  1 cake for the skirts (Wilton mould) & 2 deep round cake for the bottom skirts.
2. Invert the cake to completely cool & chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.  Using a serrated knife, trim tops of cakes to make level; brush off crumbs.
3. Make the butter icing:  Cream together butter, vanilla & milk.  Slowly beat in confectioners’ sugar, adding more if need to make a nice fluffy.
4. Place four strips of parchment paper around perimeter of a serving plate.  Place the first thin layer on the cake plate & spread top with ¾ cup of icing.  Place the second layer on top, bottom side up & spread with icing; repeat process with the third layer which is the skirt.   Spread thin layer entire cake with icing & chill in the fridge for 15-20 minutes.
5. Once the icing is hard, insert the Barbie doll in the middle of the cake.   Spread entire cake with remaining icing & decorate to your own desire.

Note:
Before spread icing, insert the Barbie to be sure that the Barbie is fix right in the cake, if not you can cut the middle of the cake to fix the Barbie doll in.