making a barbie cake - help!!!!

[sez2068]

hi any advice gratefullly recieved -

want to make a barbie cake but cant find any specific instructions online - i will be using a pyrex bowl not a proper mould -

any hints on quantity of cake mix to use - how much flour, eggs etc - times to cook, any hints at all!!

has anyone successfully done this with a bowl?! i am having a shot at it for my dps dd aged 6 and i want to get it right!! my dd is not a girly girl so my cakes to date have always been fairly simple affairs!!

thanks so much

How about getting a real Barbie and sticking her in the top of a cake that you have decorated with pink frilly icing to make it look like a skirt?
Or would that look too much like Granny's loo roll cover...

Nigella tells you how to do this in the domestic goddess book.

ok - she suggests using a conical mould tin (like we all have time to go hunting for that sort of thing) I reckon a bowl will work ok. The recipe is 250 PLAIN flour, 1.5 tsp baking posder, 1/2 tsp bicarb, 1/4 tsp salt, 200ml buttermilk or 75g yoghurt mixed with 125ml semi skim milk, 1 1/2tsp vanilla extract, 125g unsalted butter (soft), 200g caster sugar and 3 large eggs. You sieve the flour and stuff together, seperately cream the butter and sugar and seperately again mix the buttermilk and vanilla then combine the lot a bit at a time beating well. Temerature 180 for about an hour for a cone of sponge for Barbie. Let it coll totally then shove her it it and decorate her with rolled out ready made icing (you get many shades of pink) using warm apricot jam to get it to stick to the naked doll (hmmmmm) and don't forget to tie her hair out of the way hth

If the bowl's a bit shallow, pop out Barbie's legs and just stick her torso in. They should go back on.

thank you all, fingers crossed!

You can also use ready made butter cream to cover the cake and then stick cut in half marshmallows to it.

you can get the conical mould on amazon, ebay etc - not hard to find. although some have said it's not that good anyway.