Princess Doll Birthday Cake

[TruthSweet]

DD1 has decided she wants a doll princess cake for her birthday - a toilet roll holder style one (I blame my collection of 60's & 70's cake decorating books grin]).

I've got the plastic doll, the pudding basin, the 7" sponge cake tin to raise the basin cake up high enough for the doll's legs to fit (will be wrapped in clingfilm before inserting for hygiene's sake).

BUT I don't have a great cake recipe for it nor do I know how much batter to make - the cake basin is a 2 pint on and the cake tin is a 7" victoria sponge tin.

Any suggestions?

I've got a recipe in my perfect party cakes book. Just hold on, I'll go and get it and tell you the quantities.

Can you take the legs off of the doll? You won't need to push it too far into the cake then :)

Okay, 1 litre (1 3/4 pint) pudding bowl cake recipe:
230g Self raising flour
170g caster sugar
170g soft marg or butter
3 eggs
30ml milk

1. Preheat at gas 2. Grease and line bowl.

1. Sift flour into a bowl and add all the other ingredients. Bind all the ingredients together using a slow setting on your mixer (I don't have one so I always just use the humble wooden spoon and elbow grease)

1. Spoon the mixture into the dish and smooth the top.

1. Cook in the centre of the oven for approximately 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. Do the skewer test to be extra sure. Leave in the tin for five minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack.

Thanks for the recipes. I'll give it a whirl