My daughter loves the Little Mermaid, so I made a mermaid cake for her second birthday. The top half of the mermaid is a real doll that I stuck in the cake--everything else is cream cheese buttercream. I used half of the ball pan and placed it onto the 9" petal pan (single layer). My daughter started getting excited about her birthday when I let her pick out the doll for her cake. She fell asleep before I finished decorating her cake last night, but she woke up in the middle of the night to see it.