My DD is going to be 4 this weekend.

She says she really wants a Cinderella cake. I can't stand the commercial Disney ones, so I have had the following idea:
[comments / tips/ suggestions welcome]

Buy a rectangular sponge. Carve out a shoe shape. Cover with white ready roll royal icing (?). Dot some edible pearls (or something similar) around the opening of the shoe, and possibly on the toe.

Popping on a cake board. Maybe put a Cinderella doll sitting beside the shoe (or maybe sitting on top of the shoe?)

I am not particularly skilled, but happy to give anything a try. I plan to to a dry run before the party.

What do you think?

These are mini ones but is this the kind of thing you are thinking?

Oh Skramble - these are PERFECT!

How did you find them?

I never thought of putting the slipper on top of a cake / cushion. Do you think they carved the slippers out of cake? I wonder what sort of icing that is?

Those are cup cakes, and I have no idea how to put it all together sorry.

Sounds lovely!

Another option would be a princess cake a la Nigella. Make a fairly deep round sponge cake, and wodge a Barbie doll into the cake up to her waist, so that the cake forms her big princess skirt. Make a little sugar paste bodice (think she suggests apricot jam to glue it on) and decorate skirt to your heart's content with jelly diamonds and pearls and smarties and....you get the idea!

I can't remember if she uses a special tin for the skirt, but I imagine you could possibly use an ovenproof pudding basin, or use a normal cake tin and do a bit of trimming to make the correct shape!

I think I'd be inclined to do her one of these princess cakes with the doll.
They have a mould for the dress here as well as doll picks....but I think the pyrex bowl idea in the first recipe would look great once decorated Cinderella dress.

Just an idea

Or what about a pillow cake with something like this on it

Barbie cake thread - check out iMum's pictures!

Or a very simple cake with these round the edge.

The barbie doll cakes look fab, but my DD was a bit traumatised watching the scary bit in Five Children and It a few weeks ago - when the horrid cousin put the doll in caustic soda, burning off her legs - I can just imagine the petrified screams of my DD at her party at seeing either a pick doll or a dismembered barbie, and the large bill for psychonalysis once she reaches adulthood.

I really like the suggestions of the shoes on a pillow - I may give these a try.

I will let you know how I get on.