Anyone made their own Snow White birthday cake?

[nowwearefour]

Dd1 turns 5 this summer and LOVES snow white at the moment. The cake has to be snow white. I'd like to be able to make the cake myself but was looking for a bit of assistance! Anyone got any helpful sites or anything? I dont mind paying for a template or something!

You could make the cake in a pudding bowl, stick a snow white in the middle ten ice on her dress, or were you thinking more ofher lying on the bed surrounded by dwarfs

a bit like this

well any ideas are welcome! that one looks amazing!

I have instructions for making Snow White's cottage complete with a little model of Snow White. It does require a reasonable level of skill in sugarpaste though. If you want me to scan it and send it to you I will.

that was the first one that came up when I googled but there are loads more, you can buy the actual dolls without legs, with a spike to put in cake and if you google there are loads of videos for that type of cake, there is definitely one on the cake baker site

Olihan- that'd be brilliant if you are happy to do that. i am at helenainsworth at hotmail.com. thank you. i will look at the cakebaker site too

That one that PBM has linked to would be very easy to do, especially if you used one of the Snow White dolls that Tesco, etc do. (then you get a cake and present in one )

Have a look at this It's in a book by Debbie Brown called, i thinkm Enchanted Cakes and is MUCH easier than it looks. Her instructions are really clear and easy to follow.

oooooh some great ideas here!

nowwearefour, I made 2 snowwhite cakes for a friends DD's 3rd birthday party. Will email pics to you and would be happy to advise on anything you need to know if you would like me to?

Olihan just seen your post on other thread, must give that a go,

We will have to start another cake decorators chat/advice thread, I'm always hijacking someone elses

I got the top table wedding cake going to make a start on my figures this week

Oh, it's the one that Seeker linked to! Will fiddle about with scanner tomorrow and see what I can do.

nowwearefour, see my profile pics for cake pictures.

madcatsazz- yes please the pics if poss! sounds great. olihan. amazing coincidence!

nowwearefour, I promise that if you get the Debbie brown book, or the scanned pages, and if you gove yourself plenty of time and follow the instructions carefully, you will produce an amazing cake. The first one I ever made was one of hers - I went step by step and when i got to the last stage, I looked at what I had made and it was exactly like the picture. I was amazed - and so proud of myself it wasn't true!

I've made loads of hers since,and they always work. You need good scales, because she gives precise amounts of sugar paste - go for it!

Hiya, Just wante to add that I've recently made one similar to the one plumbummum linked to. I hired a special cake tin to do the job it was really good because it had a metal piece that ran through the middle - apparantly without that it doesn't cook well. Also I didn't buy the spike bummed dolly, they weren't very nice, I bought a barbie and snapped her legs off .

I can put a pic of it on my profile and open it to view if you want to see it. I am a total amateur btw, but it was much easier than I thought it would be

yes please kickarsequeen. great tip re cake tin....

kickarse where did you source your tin from?

They're called a Tiffin tin if you want to google. Or bake in a 4 pint pyrex bowl and trim the cake down a bit (it's a bit wide!).

Have scanned instructions but dongle-jobby-whatsit on that computer isn't letting me access the internet atm. Will get dh to do it as soon as he gets back tomorrow night!

Thanks so much. Will google that tin- had tried but without that information had not got v far!

I was about to come and say you could just do a princess (barbie-style one) cake and make it into Snow White but I see loads of people have said that already

at snapping the legs off though, and at hiring a special tin.

A pyrex bowl is perfect for the job (I put an ordinary sandwich cake underneath as well because Barbie's legs were too long) - but then cut a hole down through the middle and sink Barbie in legs and all (wrapped in cling film - or, as I did, sink a tall glass into the cake and stand her in that) - no need to chop the poor doll in half, and birthday girl gets to keep her afterwards.

You don't need to hire a tin, a litre pyrex bowl would do the job as Olihan & Stealth have said

heres the video I was talking about

FWIW, my princess (she's not snow white, but that is just a matter of dress and hair colour) is on my profile.

Hiya My pics on there now. LOL @ stealth, I tried to stick them back on but to no avail!

Wow. stealth your princes is amazing. hope mine turns out something like that!