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Barbie Cake- Step 1

I bought a brand new barbie doll, removed her new clothes (kept them in the box) and stripped her down

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I wrapped her body in 2 layers of clingfilm to protect her from cake and icing. Her head was wrapped...

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For this barbie I baked 3 sandwich cakes (18cm ish tin) and I also bought a dome-cake tin. It cost me...

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So, basically you have your cakes stacked like this.

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Then you put Barbie in, and push her in as far as you need to - pushing through the layers of cake. She doesn't need to touch the worktop.

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Then remove Barbie, and the top layer, and cut a circle out of the next layers. So Barbie goes in, not too loose, not too tight.

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Then put it all back together & check that Barbie fits. She should hip-height to the cakes, when...

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Next get a sensible adult to cut the excess cake from around Barbie's skirt. Mr Lisa does this better than me - i rasa better potong kembang ke bawah ...mcm dlm gambar ni skirt mcm kuncup plaks

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So now you have a smooth skirt shape

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Mix up buttercream icing and take some strawberry jam (I used homemade stuff). Get Barbie out of the...

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Take the cake apart again, jam the bottom and cream the top. Don't lick fingers!

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Restack the cake so it looks like this and squash down gently. Not too much otherwise you'll lose all of the cream and jam.

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Then put Barbie back inside, and you'll notice that the skirt has gained height.

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Cover the rest of the skirt in buttercream, slap it on with a spatula and smooth all over. Try and keep...

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Then smooth it over as smooth as smooth can be. TOP TIP: get a sheet of CLEAN paper, or card, hold...

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Roll out, cut and stick on the front panel of the skirt, this will be on display as an underskirt. If...

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This is the magic bit - making frills. Roll out a circle of icing - cut a circle out with a pastry/jam...

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You just need to cut the circle, so your frill is now a long strip. You don't have to make big ones, you can make several small ones instead.

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Wet the edge of the underskirt, using a small brush. Put the frill at the top of the skirt, pressing...

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I rolled out these pear-shapes for the skirt, I needed 4 for this skirt, if I'd done big circles I probably would only have needed 3.

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Then I got my crimper and crimped all around the edge of the skirt layers. It looks...

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The skirt layers were stuck on: wetting the frill on the front and bottom, so the icing could stick.

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Then when it was all decorated, I stamped a heart shaped cutter in the 2 front panels - careful not to...

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Then I crafted a bustier piece, made from a rectangular piece of icing, and frilled the bottom of it,...

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All that was needed was embellishment! I mixed up some water-icing with pink food colouring - making it...

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For each embellishment, apply the icing 'glue' and stick it on - it's up to you where you stick them.

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It gets a bit fiddly, but it looks really effective when they're stuck on.

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Then after a few minutes, go back to each embellishment and using the wooden skewer, gently scrape off...

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Ta dah!! Barbie complete. As you can see, I stuck coloured hearts all around the frill. See...

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Here's a front profile of Princess Barbie Cake, as I've now decided to call her, she kept her...

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And then I added the name of my niece on the cakeboard, with some flowers. In hindsight, I would have...

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