Hi All
I have to make one doll cake.
What shape can I make for bar-bee doll cake and how?
Any special mold is recommended? Or just I have to carve the base for bar-bee out of our regular small round cake?

Need all info. about making doll cake.
Thanks for helping me.

Nitu

I have never made this cake by carving the dress. I have always used the wonder mold pan. It saves a lot of time. I don't know how to tell you to do it any other way. Sorry.

Maybe someone else would know better!

Hi,
you can use the wonder mold for the skirt and use doll pick on top...or i know there is wilton barbie pans...or use a princess wilton pan....

good luck...

I have never made a doll cake but my nanny (grandma) loved to make them. She always used the wonder mold pan and a doll pick. Both of these you can get at Micheal's or other craft store. She always said they weren't too hard to make. She loved to do these and for her birthday next year I think that's what I'll make for her! Good luck and don't forget to post a picture.

I make my doll cakes using a cake baked in a pyrex bowl and under that I layer a cake baked in a tube pan...both the same diameter. I have the wonder mold but the shape and height weren't right for what I wanted to do. There's some instructions here if you need them...

http://cakefun.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-make-barbie-doll-cake.html

I don't have wonder mold pan right now. I have to buy that.
But I really really need this tutorial.

Thanks everybody for this quick help.

Nitu

You can use pyrex or the Pampered Chef glass mixing bowl. Somewhere on the PC website there are directions for baking a cake in that bowl.

Deb

I like this pyrex bowl idea.
Now I can't wait to make the Doll.

Thanks
Nitu

Here is the link for the recipe on pampered chef:
http://www.pamperedchef.com/our_products/recipesearch/recipedetail.jsp

Thanks dodibug ~ I knew it was there but I didn't have time to look for it yesterday.

Debbie

I use the wondermold pan for doll cakes.

One important thing to know before you get started... If you are using a real Barbie doll and not the pics you put in the top, the doll will be taller than the wondermold cake. What I do is make a 9" round cake to put under the wondermold cake, which make it tall enough.

Sammy

I also used a pyrex bowl, had one that was shaped almost like the wonder mold. I found that it helped with the baking to put a flower nail in the bottom of the bowl. My mother used to make them with both an angel food cake and a small bundt cake pan.

I already have the wonder mold, but I am curious to see what the pyrex bowl looks like.

Does anyone have a link to a picture of it?

Thanks.

It'll end up looking just like the one in the tutorial as long as you layer another cake under the bowl cake which is what I do.

http://cakefun.blogspot.com/2005/08/how-to-make-barbie-doll-cake.html

I have used an 8 inch bundt pan with a bundt single on top. Covered it with fondant and "pleated" around the bundt shape- worked very well in a pinch!

The most important thing about the skirt of a dollcake is to keep it in proportion to the doll's height.

When you add another layer to the dollcake, the layer should either be an obvious base or added to the skirt to make it the correct length. An 11 1/2" doll with a shorter [skirt due to a smaller cake pan] can look like a bad case of "short " legs.

Do an image search on-line for other decorator's interpretations of dollcakes.

OK so the pyrex "glass" bowl will not break,? I know you can put it in the microwave but my aunt told me not to put it in the oven. But I take your word for it since you have already done it

I would reccomend the wonder mold, but if you don't have that pan, I would do what lisa was saying. I have a friend that uses just an Angel food pan, it turns out pretty good. Good Luck !!
If you're too nervous to use a pyrex bowl try a metal bowl. The pyrex shouldn't break, though

i think the pyrex is fine...they are made for the oven...

NOT a regular glass bowl...but a PYREX bowl is fine

Thanks everyone.
I really appreciated.

Nitu

I hope this is not a silly question... But I am making a doll cake for a bridal shower, what is the correct way to cut the cake? If there is one! This is the first time that I will make a doll cake and I will be the one cutting it as well!

Thanks for your help!

Finally I made my first doll cake.
It was for my daughters birthday.
I carved her bottom from two 8-4cakes.
It was fun to make it.
I couldnt decorate her dress properly but still I am happy with my first try.

Thanks everyone for helping me.
I learned a lot form CC and still learning.

Thanks for watching my cake.
Nitu