Cheap brown-skinned doll (not a Barbie sidekick) that I can use to top a princess cake?

[franch]

I'm thinking of trying the bowl-shaped-cake-as-skirt thing with a doll stuck in the top - the DDs haven't got sucked into the whole Barbie thing YET so am postponing that as long as possible - what else is out there?

Brown skin and dark hair essential

not dark enough I don;t think

scary!

would the wooden dolls' house type dolls be any good? ELC has an Indian family...

Woah! Hi again MrsB

I'm thinking of using your blue buttercream idea to cover the skirt, and then plastering it with sparkly sprinkles and sugar flowers - might look a bit amateur but hey

It needs to be barbie-sized I think, so I can stick the legs down into the cake

It's a fairytale themed party but I'll be quite happy to go with the number-3 shaped cake with girly decorations (blue, not pink - DD2 is most definite on that )

Hmm I know I said no Barbie but I'm sorely tempted by this because of the fab hair ...

cool doll, franch, you should definitely bid!

Franch - take the legs off the barbie, did a hole in the top the cake and stick in up to the waist with icing - don't dig the legs in or it will collapse.

pound shop ? I made a cake with a hole in centre using a tin like this from Tchibo. then stuck a cheapy dolly in middle and iced.

Wow that's an interesting tin Lizs - does it make a doughnut-shaped cake? Do you have to get the right sized doll or it falls down the middle?!

Great tip Kbear, many thanks (unless I use Lizs's magic tin that is!)

But what about the doll?

Most dolls - even 'ethnic' ones - have long straight hair which is why I do love the ebay afro one ...

Yes it comes out a ring shape ! You can fit the doll(roughly a Barbie height) down the middle and if too small just put some screwed up foil down to raise it up . You can get push-in doll bodies for cakes too but not seen an ethnic one.

Bought the ebay one for 99p

What kind of icing do you all use?

I prob need to start a new thread about this.

Do I need a special tin, Lizs, or should I just use a big heatproof bowl?

The bloomin ebay doll didn't arrive so I'm back to square one

Oh thanks Califrau - I just started a new thread specifically for instructions

this one?

Bloody hell Califrau those pictures are all waaaaay beyond my abilities. Some of them look like the bodice of the dress is made with icing too ...?

Hmm LoveMyGirls she looks quite brown on that photo but on all the other pages I've seen she looks very white

Oh I wasn't planning to pipe!

"artfully" - now there's my stumbling block

Try po9undland - they have alsorts in!

No poundland near here

Have put a bid on another ebay one - not afro hair sadly but an ethnic princess so has a tiara and nice lilac dress - I guess even if I take her legs off I can stuff the dress down into the cake or even butcher it (don't fancy making a bodice out of icing)