Here is the Rapunzel cake I made last week for a birthday party. The techniques I’m going to show you can work for any of the princesses or other women doll cakes you’d like to make yourself. Practice piping on wax paper until you get comfortable creating your designs. Hereis a great post on some simple piping techniques to try.

Cut a small hole in the center of each. You are going to drop your doll into this hole. Make it as small as possible. I couldn’t find a cookie cutter the right size, so I actually make my circle cut pattern with a soft-boiled egg holder lid that my mother-in-law gave us. (First time I found legitimate use for it.)

Gradually add the sugar, beating until smooth before adding more. Both of the above were from AllRecipes.com. Thank you!!! I made this beautiful cake for my granddaughter Zoe’s 3rd birthday. She requested a “Rapunzel” cake – part of her love of all things “Princess”!! In fact, a REAL PRINCESS was invited to her party – how fun was that??

Strip your doll while the cake is in the freezer. Wrap the doll in saran wrap – or if you don’t have that, use waxed paper with a rubber band. It doesn’t work nearly as well and gives her a bit of a bumpy waist, but you can work around it. I did. If you are using a Rapunzel doll, you also want to wrap her hair up so it doesn’t get in your way. I secured it on top of her head with another rubber band. The cake itself, has 5 thin layers of vanilla cake, 3 – 8″ layers, and 1 – 6″ cake sliced in half. For these, I used my favorite Golden Vanilla cake mix from King Arthur Flour. In your big bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and dry strawberry gelatin until light and fluffy chunks. I love using fondant or our homemade buttercream frosting when I am decorating cakes with beautiful detail like these princess cakes. Fondant is great to get the smooth, flowy look. Buttercream frosting holds its shape well and it is easy to pipe so you can do all kinds of fun designs for your Barbie birthday cake. You will want about 6-7 cups of frosting to cover your cake if you are wanting to pipe the entire cake. This allows for some extra for dividing and color mixing. Tips for Decorating a Barbie CakeUse gel food coloring from the craft store. These types of food coloring are far superior to the water food coloring at the grocery story. You will get brighter colors and the perfect tint to match your princess. Cover the seam where the bodice and skirt meet… And now time to add the criss crossing of the ribbon onto the bodice. I rolled out the pink really thin, and then using a pizza cutter cut it really narrow. This way I didn’t have to try to roll it evenly into such a small snake! I painted the bodice with clear vanilla (see, you can’t even see it!). Now one strip at a time start cutting and building the criss crossing! I think I might have impressed myself with this one. At least at 2 a.m. when I finished up, I thought it might be my best culinary masterpiece to date.

For any of the Barbie cakes what we need to start with is start at the inside/bottom and work your way out/up! So the underskirt is where we’re starting. You can also use fondant or marzipan to decorate the cake like with our Barbie cake recipe. Just roll it out thin and cover the cake.Rapunzel’s underskirt has a lot of detailing in it so I decided to roll the fondant out onto an impression mat and then used that to cover the cake! As you cover a cake the fondant tends to stretch a bit so to keep the details I just focused on keeping one section pretty, the rest I didn’t mind if the impression got stretched and warped. Separate your frosting into bowls, color with food coloring, then cover with a damp cloth until ready to use so the frosting doesn’t dry out. I love using our homemade buttercream frosting or fondant when I am decorating cakes with beautiful detail like these princess cakes. Fondant is great to get the smooth, flowy look. Buttercream frosting holds its shape well and it is easy to pipe so you can do all kinds of fun designs for your Disney princess cake. You will want about 6-7 cups of frosting to cover your cake if you are wanting to pipe the entire cake. This allows for some extra for dividing and color mixing. How to Decorate a Princess Cake

I let the cake sit over night to let the frosting harden so the long hair from the doll wouldn’t get glued in. In the morning I let Rapunzel’s hair down, added the extension and draped it around the cake. Instead of buying an expensive Disney princess cake, you can make your own at home! It’s so easy and doesn’t take any more time than a regular birthday cake. Dress up Ariel, Cinderella, Tiana, Aurora, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel or any other Disney princess these easy techniques. Use your favorite piping tips to create your own dress design. Be creative! Your little princess will love it! What You Need for a Disney Princess Cake Today I am trying to make a Belle cake BUT my sons friend wants a vanilla cake. I use the Traditional Vanilla Bithday cake recipe from the same book but the cake fell. The middle simply did not bake evenly ;( You can also use our homemade cake mix recipe if you don’t want to use store-bought. This easy recipe just uses cake flour (or all purpose flour), sugar, baking powder, salt, and shortening. Add eggs, milk, and butter to the mixture to make your cake batter. Update: Here’s a photo of the cake Lori — one of my awesome readers — made for her girls! LOVE it!!!For the Elsa Barbie doll birthday cake we used a Barbie that had a painted on body and a skirt (instead of a full dress). This made it super easy to decorate. We mixed Sky Blue and Lavender food coloring to get the right colors. We kept adding color a drop at a time until it matched Elsa’s bodice colors. Drop your doll into the middle of the cake. Use frosting to fill in the gaps. Or, if you’re like me and have a large gap on both sides to fill, use the cut cake that you had trimmed from the 9” round cakes that you made instead of the 8” because that’s what size cake pans you have. I filled in the holes with that and then frosted over it. You could probably fill it in with anything edible… bread maybe? … if you actually made the right size cakes to begin with and didn’t have any leftovers. room temperature eggs (you can speed this process up by putting them in a bowl of hot – not boiling – water for 5 minutes)