Do you know anyone who can make a birthday cake?

[LisaDrew]

Hi - I live in North London and am a hopeless baker. My daughter will be 3 in July and has her heart set on one of those cakes which has a barbie doll standing upright in the middle and skirt=cake. Anyone know someone who makes good cakes - not too expensive ( I visited a bakery who will do one to feed 15 kids for £60+ - too much!)

Sorry, don't live in London so can't recommend anyone. I I made a cake like that for my DD a few years ago. Just made a basic victoria sponge and cooked it in a bowl in the microwave to get the right shape. Slapped on some pink butter icing and flowers/silver baubles etc then stuck a doll in. It was great and the girls loved it. It really was very simple, and if you are worried that the cake won't taste too good, cut up a shop bought cake for the party bags.
Or hopefully this will bump for someone who does know someone in North London who can help!

o north london ui have a wicked best cake maker - my mate makes best cakes and is based in barnet, il send u the link on - one sec. she's fab.
www.fabulous-cakes.co.uk/Fabulous%20Cakes/Home.html

I don't think you will be able to buy one for much less than that, I'm afraid - novelty cakes are really expensive. But I'm sure you could make one yourself - you can either use a real Barbie, or cake decorating shops have spooky heads and torsos. The same shops have tons of cake glitter and ready made decorations. And pre coloured icing that you can roll out. So if you can bake a cake in a pudding bowl, roll out a circle of icing and drape it over like folds of a ball gown then stick the doll in the top you can then go to town on the decorations! Cake decorating is much easier than it looks - and 3 year old are a wonderfully uncritical audience. As long as it's pink and glittery she'll love it.

Ooops - just realized this is an ancient thread - sorry!

I made one for my DD when she was 5. It's easier than you think. Cake mixture (shop bought if you want) into a pudding bowl, cook until knife comes out clean. Remove the legs of cheap barbie type doll, dig a little well in the top and put some butter icing in to stick her into. Cover with cream butter icing (shop bought - ASDA, TESCO etc), cover with sugar flowers. Have a go, you might surprise yourself. If you need a foolproof sponge recipe I can give you that too.

that my dd is past the Barbie cakes stage!

if you want to contacty my mate on her site tell her budgety what u wanty and how many people for she can give you a quote