Tips on making a hideous 'barbie popping out of a cake' cake...

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DD has decided she really wants one of these and its the first year I had decided to buy the cake because I will be 7.5 months pg. But, Waitrose are charging £50 so I am going to have to don a pinny and sort it out.

So..... Any tips please ???

make a cake in a pudding bowl - normal sponge mixture, but cook it for a bit longer. Then pull the legs off the barbie if you can, cling film her hips and shove her in to the upturned cake about 2 inches. butter ice all over the cake thinly, to help the roll on icing to stick, then either buy some ready rolled out fondant icing and cut it in half, drape over the front and back of the bowl cake, so it hangs in folds (a lot easier than it sounds), and then put decorations (eg little icing flowers) in a pattern over the dress.

thank you - how big a pudding bowl would one do ? and is a pyrex one ok ??

I'll do the dismembering if you like.

Have a look at my profile. I didn't dismember the Barbie, tempting though it was - I sunk a glass into the cake and stood her in that - which had the side-effect of making the cake more stable for transport.

Pyrex bowl is perfect - you might want to put a normal round sponge underneath it to make her a bit taller.

Ive a picture of one I made on my profile, if it is the sort of thing you are after I can talk you through it.

i made on of these once ( and once only) i used a pudding bowl bit stuck barbies legs into the cake, the pudding bowel wasn't deep enough so barbie emerged from the cake mid thigh, so had to make a square cake and cut circles out to pile original cake on !! so measure depth of bowl against barbie legs first

Thanks everyone ! LOL at the dismembering - I too think that will be the good bit although have you seen the price of barbies !? I remember htinking a while ago I ought to get one of the cheapo rip offs from woolies for this purpose but didn't and now its too late.

Imum and stealth - that's exactly the sort of thing - your cakes look amazing...

Mine was adapted from a book (trying to remember which one) - it does in fact start with a square cake, but even at the time I thought a pudding bowl + round cake would be easier/more economical on cake.

I bought the cheapest possibly doll, which turned out to be a Barbie (about £5 from Tesco) and then I gave the clothes to the recipient so that she could keep the doll.

Top tips - it's all in the layering! No one layer of her skirt needs to be perfect because there are several, IYSWIM. Any faults that show can be hidden with strategically placed flowers.

oh, I also made another cake for the girl's dad - with the legs upside down poking out of the top of the cake - burlesque fashion - now THAT was funny.....

I am watching TV so skim read active convos and read this as "barbie pooping out of a cake" Not a good mental image!!!!!!!!!!