Help!
DD1 has requested a 'Princess Fairy' cake for her birthday party next month. My plan was to bake the 'dress' in a 9" pyrex bowl (to be inverted and covered with icing), with a 9" round sandwich tin cake to go underneath for extra height. Then I just cut some holes, plunge my naked doll in, and ice the lot. Easy, right?
Except I had a trial run with Nigella's 'birthday cake' (from Dom Goddess) recipe last week, which she specifically recommends for this sort of cake. The bowl cake rose too much in the middle, but stayed low around the sides, and is quite a dense cake, so it sank down and lost even more of its height when cooling.
Delicious, but no use at all.
Before I give up and move onto Plan B (a patterned ring mold on top of a 11" springform, which will look much less 'dress like'), can anyone please recommend a reliable recipe for the pyrex bowl approach?
I'm moving house in 2 weeks so really need to get the baking done, and into my mums freezer, to be ready ahead of time.....
Thank you!!!!