Has anyone made a 'doll cake'?

[nondomesticgoddess]

I'm thinking of making a Snow White cake for dd's 4th birthday. Has anyone made a doll type cake and have you got any top tips?? Thanks!

My mum made one for me when I was little, It was simple and I still remember it to this day, I was 6 at the time that was 30 yrs ago-she made the cake using a large pyrex pudding basin (i now own the very same pudding basin) turned it out upside down so it was dome upwards. She then rolled out sheets of icing and draped it like fabric over the dome and and decorated it like the dress of a ball gown-she then got an 10inch cheap barbie type dolly (I have seen them in £1 land) and got my dad to hacksaw her in half at the waist (gruesome, I know) and topped the cake with that- the dressed her top half out of icing and rice paper.

I would think with the gorgeous edible glitters, iridescent powders and gems and things you can get nowadays it would be quite easy to make this method look pretty special.

I made one today!

my friend makes these for her DDs. She uses a barbie type doll and a large pudding basin, just as mrspir8 suggests.

She says it is pretty easy, just the decoration can be a little fiddly, but you can get sheets of icing and icing pens and glitter.

It was a Dora doll. Bigger cake needed. So i used an 8inch round cake and pyrex bowl.

Split both cakes in 2, buttercream inside and crumb layer over whole cake.

Fridge for 24hrs. New butter cream layer on top. Doll in middle of cake (hollowed out earlier)

Decorate with whatever you fancy. It looked ace!

Ok - it sounds like it can be done. Thanks for the tips and wish me luck!

Am off to find/create a creepy bottomless doll...

I just clingfilmed the doll's feet and put her in the cake.

You tube have some demos. They are very good.

Ooh, my first thought had been to wrap the legs up. Did it work?

Now off to watch random youtube videos!

DOne a few.... I just wash the doll and then clingfilm her legs.
I have used a pudding basin but had to make another cake underneath as the dolls legs were too long . I then bought a tin from decuisne. The recipe provided was naf and the cake was soooo hard.So now I just do a simple sponge and it works well.
I also use the trimmings to shove between her wasit and the hole made it makes it easier to ice.
Have done butter cream and fondant skirts and both have been fab.

I clingfilmed the legs too - worked really well. Found the cake took ages to cook - I bought a bell shaped tin. Also had fun with the fondant icing when trying to roll out a piece big enough, it welded itself to the kitchen worktop - make sure you use plenty of icing sugar!

I'm a bit late to this thread but it might help future visitors........I made a mermaid barbie cake once for dd. It was really easy. Used the pudding basin, legs shoved into a hole cut in the middle method, then used ready made icing to make the pudding basin into a rock and cut semi circles out of pink icing to make the scales for the tail which went down one side of the rock and stuck small shells on with icing as a top. I am no artist and I have no patience but it turned out brilliantly and I enjoyed making it.