a "Cinderella" cake for a 4th birthday - how?

[binkie]

Inspiration please?

Would a bought square sponge decorated with relevant scene do, do you think? For the scene, the Polly Pocket Cinderella figures playset Disney used to do would have been perfect but no longer produced - lots on ebay but no time for that now (party's this coming Sat.).

Any other ideas?

Please save dd and her friends from a cake with one clear plastic dressing up shoe stuck on top.

waitrose do one

sainsbury's do a multi-princess one, if she can bear cinders sharing a platform with low life like sleeping beauty, snow white...

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you can use ice cream cones for the towers

the mermaid one looks nice

lovely turkey coddy

OK i found it, sorry

turkey yourself

help! I can't find the Waitrose one - but the ones I did find all need 7 days notice ... only got 3 now

pph has done on before - she should beheere soon - calm down

i am pretty sure morrisons and tesco have them in

look here

M&S do one of a princess which dd had for her 2nd birthday - still gets talked about now .

Alternatively you could try making a sponge in a round pudding bowl, turn it out and then buy a very cheap doll and chop it off from the waist . Then stick it on to the upturned bowl cake (with me so far?) with icing, and then ice cake as a skirt and then ice a bodice onto the doll and there you have it! My mum did this for one of my birthdays when I was small and still has the doll to this day - it honestly looks a lot better than it sounds!

I always remember my mum making me a princess birthday cake when I was little. She made a sponge cake in a pudding bowl. THat was to be the skirt. THen she brought a doll, like barbie or sindy and stuck the legs into the sponge so that the sponge was the skirt. She then iced the cake and a top on Barbie. It was great. Must have been for me to still remember it #*! years on!!!

I was going to suggest the same woodpops. Theres one in the 30 minutes kids cakes by Hamlyn Book.....30 minutes to decorate that is. Let me know if your interested and I'll write out the details.

Well it's not Cinderella, but here's a Barbie Princess cake tin. I have used these Wilton cake tins for the past 3 of my girls' birthdays (Barbie, Blues Clues and Cinderella), and they've turned out pretty well. (I couldn't find the Cinderella tin on any UK sites.)

Your messages were an eye-opener - not having been a dolly child myself I had no idea about the memories-are-made-of-this doll-cake.

So just because you all said, I made one - and you were right, it was a sensation. Wish I could post a picture.

Thank you!!

(If anyone wants the detail: large sponge, baked in a ring mould, then outer half cut into bricks and built up (cemented with raspberry jam) into a tower up to waist of naked Cinderella Barbie inserted in (hollow) middle; bought rollable icing - pale pink to cover the tower (at which point, at 1.20 am, it looks like an irretrievable sack of potatoes) - then pink pink, in two triangles making a sort of crinoline overskirt to each side - after which thank heavens it starts looking like a dress - and stuffed in all round the middle to hold Barbie up; more pink pink glued onto the torso to make a bodice; lots of cake decoration sundry stuff - glitter and tiny stars & writing-icing squiggles covering up the many many bodged joins. And a pink heart squarely on the middle front of the dress with dd's initial, thereby distracting from remaining sack of vegetable effect.)

I've never done anything like this before, suspect I won't again. But now she's one of those with something to remember for ever. Hey and one of the mums said the cake was as good as her grandmother's!!

Well done Binkie - I'm very impressed!!

oh wow - my nana once made me a crinoline (sp?) lady cake......

sponge cake made in a pudding bowl as the skirt then a dolls head and body stuck in top
was fab!

not quite what you are looking for though I yes...

aha woodpops!!! you had the same!
lol