Homebaked Barbie cake
…So one of the girls turned up to school at 9am with a pink cakeboard and two packs of fondant icing announcing she needed to make a cake for a four year old’s birthday by 1.30pm when school finished. This is my second attempt at a Barbie cake (my first attempt is pictured at the end of this post); this is the homebaked chocolate cake with chocolate ganache we created…
Ingredients
- 3 Layers of 8 inch homebaked chocolate sponge cakes, sandwiched together with chocolate ganache
- 200-250g Vanilla buttercream icing
- 10 inch cakeboard
- Barbie torso (you can buy these in cake shops)
- 8cm ribbon to style Barbie’s hair
- Edible glue
- 2.5g Pot of edible glitter (2 pots if you won’t be super-careful at making it last for the whole cake)
- Handmade fondant icing bow (approx 10cm x 4cm)
- 500g White fondant icing (plus 150g extra if you want to create a ‘train’)
- 650g fondant icing for main dress (pale pink in the photo)
- 250g fondant icing for the corset and top of dress (bright pink in the photo)
- Ribbon or edible gems / flowers / sugarpaste roses to decorate
Method
- Sandwich your three layers of sponge cake with the chocolate ganache
- Using a knife, shape your sponge tower to resemble a dome
- Cover in vanilla buttercream
- Using the white fondant icing, cover the cake entirely
- Create your fondant icing bow
- Create a ‘corset’ for the Barbie torso (it is easier to shape once on the torso and I remove the arms to make it easier)
- Create a ‘top layer’ of fondant icing for the dress of whatever design you wish
- Using the edible glue; cover the bow, corset and top layer for the dress in edible glitter
- Style the Barbie’s hair
- Roll out the icing for the base of the dress and cover the cake with it, making sure not to make the icing smooth all the way to the bottom – create folds to enhance the image of a dress. Trim the icing at the bottom to resemble the shape of the dress hem you want
- Attach the top layer of the dress using a little buttercream or edible glue
- Insert the Barbie torso into the top middle of the cake
- Decorate where the torso meets the top of the dress as desired (ribbon, edible flowers etc)
- If desired create and attach a ‘train’ for the dress
- Using edible glue, attach the fondant bow
- Finish off with any decorations you choose
Enjoy!
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