I have recently seen princess Dora cake in the gallery.
I am asking who ever did this please let me know what you used and how.
I have my twins 1st birhtday nov 19 and I am doing for the 2nd time ever a 3 tier sesame street cake. The problem is 9 days after this cake I have my niece 4th birthday and she ask me to make her a Dora cake I seen mnay Dora cakes and I have 3 in mind I want something pretty simple because I will be spending alot of time on my twins cake. Please help me I can not tell her no because she does not understand how hard and much time/$$$$ it takes to make cakes. Thanks

Hi Fawn. I did the Princess Dora cake. It's cut from a 12x18 sheet cake using a template. The same template was then printed on frosting sheets and applied to the cake as a pattern to follow. You could use a different method to get the pattern on the cake. One method I like to use is to trace the pattern on a piece of waxed paper using an edible ink marker. Place that on the frosted cake (use crusting BC) and use a toothpick to trace the design on the cake. When you lift off the waxed paper, you'll have an imprint to follow a lot like shaped cakes.

Here's the full sized templates I used. Save them and then print them out at draft quality on 4 sheets. Tape them together. Cut Dora out. Using toothpicks, attach the template to the top of a frozen 12x18 sheet cake and cut along the edge with a sharp serrated knife.

http://home.ripway.com/2005-2/266293/doraprincessupperleft.jpg

http://home.ripway.com/2005-2/266293/doraprincessupright.jpg

http://home.ripway.com/2005-2/266293/doraprincesslowerright.jpg

http://home.ripway.com/2005-2/266293/doraprincesslowerleft.jpg

When decorating, use whichever tips you're most comfortable with. A large star makes nice hair. I used the icer tip to do the sides. Finished that off with a specialty ruffle tip. This hid the seam left by the icer tip and made icing the sides a lot easier--no crumbs.

Good luck and just let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you very much that does not seem hard to do at all..
I have one question the whole cake has to be frozen for you to cut around the picture?
I have used the large star tip before it was fairly easy but very time consuming. I appreciate this and I will let you know how it turns out.
DId you only use the star tip on the whole cake? I also noticed that there are jewel on her dress are those edible or just for decorations? The bottom of her dress looks like it was used with thin icing and not the star tip. Thanks Fawn

The cake doesn't have to be frozen but it makes cutting it much easier and less crumbs.

You can use whichever tips you'd like...I used star tips and round tips to fill in the design. The jewels are made from buttercream too (just piped on). For the bottom of the dress (pink), I had a tube of wilton pink icing so I outlined the pink, microwaved the tube until the icing would flow and then quickly filled in the pink area with it...very easy.

Hi All,

Well, I made this cake and wanted to share. I decided not to cut the sheet cake because I needed someplace to write happy birthday. I tried using the icing writers on wax paper, but it wouldn't transfer. So I ended up doing a gel transfer. It was much harder than I expected, but in the end it all came out great. The gel transfer was hard because of the amount of detail.

I was thrilled with the final result though.

Thanks for all the help and the pictures!

Great cake!!!

You're an inspiration!, Those cakes are wonderful.