My niece turned four this month and since she is very into the Disney Princesses these days, it was an easy decision for her to choose that theme for her party ware. I knew instantly that her birthday cake needed to be all about Princesses, too, so I decided to blow her little mind by making her two 3-D standing princess cakes.
I started with the Wilton Wonder Mold Kit
My niece’s two favorite princesses are Snow White and Cinderella, so they became the subjects of the two cakes. I borrowed her existing dolls, removed their clothes, and washed the dolls well. I then wrapped their legs in plastic wrap and stuck them right down into the cake “dress”. The plastic wrap serves two purposes — to keep the doll clean and to keep the cake clean! With hardly any work so far, I already had the cakes looking like real dolls!
The next step was to apply icing to the cake and the dolls to make them fully dressed in their typical attire. The skirts were easy — I just used a small icing spatula
For Cinderella, I used the same blue icing from her skirt and put it in a disposable decorator bag
Cornstarch is an essential tool for when you need to handle icing without having it stick to you (and it has no taste). A little on your fingertip will do wonders when trying to tame errant icing!
For Snow White, I used a dark blue icing in and again used the size 16 “star” decorator tip to create the bodice. I switched to a lighter blue for her rounded cap sleeves, which I created by just applying icing with the same size 16 “star” tip in short vertical bars over and over until I had built up the size I wanted. I then put small dots of red on the sleeves. The finishing touch was the collar, which I created with white icing and a size 104 “rose petal” tip.
With not much effort and pretty simple cake decorating techniques, I had two adorable princess cakes ready for my niece’s birthday party. She was absolutely thrilled when she saw them, and even more excited when she found out she could eat them!
16 comments so far:
Adorable! And thanks so much for giving such easy-to-follow, detailed instructions on how to make this cake. I’m going to post a link on my blog:
http://critterandcricketcakes.blogspot.com/
Well done!
sooo cute… i was actually gonna use a bundt cake pan for the skirt (like they use for the barbie cakes) until i cam across your blog.. Thanks sooo much for posting the link to the wilton pan… am going to have to see if our party store carries it A.S.A.P
Thanks, Sue!
“mommy”, good luck with your cake. I’m glad you found our pan suggestion in time. We’d love to see how your cake comes out
I absolutely love the cakes! You make it sound so easy! I am sure it isn’t though.
I am going to try and replicate snow white for my daughter’s birthday and since we don’t get the doll mold in India I will just use a pyrex bowl. What i wanted to know was exactly how you iced the skirt in that pretty scalloped fashion and how you got the hair to look exactly like that.
Hope you will help me out!
Hi Smita, thanks for stopping by. For the scalloped skirt, I just used an offset spatula to sort of sweep the frosting on in smooth strokes, overlapping each one over the one before.
As for the hair, I used a Snow White doll that already had the right hair style, so I didn’t have to do a thing. I hope you can find something similar in India, but if not, maybe you can try twisting a regular doll’s hair into a bun and put a little rubber band on it?
Let us know how it goes!
Hi there,
I have another question. Did you use a cake mix or did you bake the cake from scratch? if from scratch then can you please please give me the recipe cause i tried it with mine and it was a goopy sticky mess.
Also Did you bake it on the lowest rack of the oven? cause it doesn’t fit in the middle rack.
Looking forward to your reply! really worried!
Hello again, Smita! I’m sorry to hear that you’re having a hard time. I use a cake mix for almost every cake I make. As much as I love homemade stuff, nothing can beat good old Betty Crocker SuperMoist, in my opinion.
You should definitely use a lower rack in your oven so that the cake itself is in the middle of the oven space.
Hi there,
Thanks so much for your reply…I will let you know how it turns out!!
Thanks
Smita
Hey just thought i’d let you know that my snow white cake came out perfectly …thanks for the inspiration
Smita
That’s wonderful, Smita! Thanks for letting us know!
Hey Chica,
Love your work.How many servings you can get from this cake?
Hi radha! According to Wilton, the Wilton Wonder Mold Kit serves 12.
Love the cakes! If I use a pyrex bowl and use one BC cakemix packet how long do I have to bake it? Never done it in a bowl before!
Hi Zana. So glad you like the cakes! I have never tried baking in a Pyrex bowl, so I can’t really give you a time estimate for baking. One of our readers, Smita, wrote in some comments above about using a bowl, but she didn’t mention the baking time.
However, most cakes can be tested for doneness by inserting a toothpick in the top. If it comes out clean, the cake is done. Good luck and please let us know how it goes
Hey there,
Thank you very much for such a helpful blog.I just want to ask which icing did you use for doing all this stuff?
Hi Anna, and thanks for the compliment! I used my regular decorator icing recipe, which you can see in this post.