Help with Princess Doll Cake and Transporting It

[mst]

My daughter is about to have her fourth birthday party, and she wants a Princess theme. She wants all of the Disney Princesses, with an emphasis on Cinderella and Tiana. For those of you whose whole lives do not revolve around the Princesses- she is the newest Princess whose movie will be coming out in December.

I was thinking of making one of those cakes where you buy a barbie-type doll, wrap the bottom in saran wrap, bake a cake in a pyrex and decorate it as a dress. I have never done this, and was wondering if anyone had advice. Especially things like if it serves less people because of the shape of the dress. I was thinking of doing one of each of her favorite princesses.

Also, how do I transport these cakes to the place where the party is?

[avariell]

Can you wait to jab the doll into the cake until you get to the location of the party? Heh... bad visual, sorry

[tbb113]

They make the Barbie doll pins specifically for the cake. You can buy it at Michael's. If you want to use a real Barbie doll, make sure that your pan is deep enough to bury her legs. Seems like some people have that problem.

Transporting them...I would think you could put them in a cake box with out putting the lid down and transport them that way.

[LaraW]

I made a cake for my DD for her 4th birthday. If I recall, I made it all the night before, and just carefully set it into a box and sort of draped a dishtowel over the head so DD would not see it. I put it on the floor of the car (or if it was on the seat, I may have put the seat belt around the box). It was open, but with the dishtowel over it.

This is the cake I made:



I baked it in a bowl, but then had to make more cake (maybe I did a bundt cake? I can't remember) because I did use an actual Barbie doll. I knew that DD would not accept a cake topper in this instance. I bought the Cinderella Barbie and then I just kind of did my own thing with the cake.

I wrapped Barbie from the waist down in saran wrap, and I used a paper towel tube to hollow out the inside of the cake. Barbie fit in there nicely. I decorated the whole thing with buttercream and a star tip, I did a crumb coat (well, tried to but I suck at decorating and so the crumb coat didn't really work). I did set it in the garage overnight (her b-day is in December, so it was similar to refrigerating). We did have plenty of cake for everyone, adults and kids, but I don't remember how many we had.

I just remembered that I used this thread for some instruction as well. Good luck, feel free to PM if you want any more info. I will do my best to remember!

ETA, I think we also used a cupcake for the candles because we were afraid of setting Barbie's hair on fire

[Bawstinn]

That cake came out great! I am anticipating having to do one myself next June.

[CoconutKisses]

wow what a great idea for a cake...this came out awesome!

[mst]

Thanks everyone.

Lara- she came out beautiful. When my little crazy girls go to sleep, I am looking forward to reading the other thread...