MARIE ANTOINETTE DOLL CAKE

Steps:

• Find and buy a Barbie Doll with long curly hair. I am using Barbie Fashionista Doll #70.
• Turn the doll upside down.
• Place a ball of cling wrap into the middle of the dolls hair. Surround the ball with hair and tie it together with a rubber band.
• Paint the Barbie's hair with a mixer of white food coloring and hairspray.
• Once the hairspray has hardened, cut away the excess hair.
• Bake 2 boxes of cake mix in a Wilton doll cake pan.
• Remove the cakes from the pan and slice the cake into three equal layers.
• Stack the cakes with buttercream between each layer.
• Crumb coat the entire cake and place into the fridge for 30 minutes.
• Add a second coat of buttercream.
• Cut a hole big enough to fit a Barbie doll's legs into the top layer of cake.
• Cover the doll cake in a 14-inch circle of white fondant.
• Enhance the folds at the bottom of the cake.
• Place your doll in the middle of the cake.
• Wrap fondant around the doll's waist.
• Add defining lines to the front of the cake to make it look like fabric.
• Roll out the white fondant and cut it into a 6-inch trapezoid shape.
• Loosely add a trapezoid to the middle part of the gown.
• Use fondant sculpting tools to create fabric lines on the trapezoid.
• Add fabric lines to the bottom of the cake to match the trapezoids.
• Add a smaller trapezoid of fondant on top of the 6-inch one and add fabric texture.
• Wrap the back and the sides of the cake with a large panel of baby blue fondant.
• Cut away the excess blue fondant and leave the trapezoid panels exposed.
• Use a fondant roller to add large fabric lines to the blue panels.
• Roll out blue fondant and cut out the penguin pattern shape.
• Fold the pattern over at a diagonal to create the penguin fold.
• Apply the penguin fold to the edge of the blue panel.
• Add fabric texture with sculpting tools.
• Repeat the process on the other side of the blue fondant.
• Create the top of the barbie by wrapping a rectangle of blue fondant around the top of the doll.
• Cut away the extra fondant at the bottom.
• Wrap both arms with long rectangles of blue fondant.
• Cover the front of the dolls bust area with a trapezoid of fondant that is one shade lighter than the blue panels.
• Use soft sculpting tools to add detail to the bust area.
• Add trim to the top with a lighter shade of fondant.
• Use soft sculpting tools to add detail to the trim.
• Add a trim of light blue fondant to create a square neckline.
• Create bell sleeves using light blue fondant.
• Add texture to waist using soft sculpting tools.
• Create Fondant flowers using an impression mold.
• Place a fondant bow at the front of her waist by using two triangles and a fondant rose.
• Use blue luster dust and vodka to add some shine to the gown.
• Add white luster dust to the penguin pattern to add depth to the dress.
• Add fondant flowers to the middle of the top.
• Use grey buttercream in a piping bag with a Wilton 10 tip to add a border to the blue panels.
• Add a smaller border sing a Wilton 5 round tip.
• Add gold luster dust to the roses as well as the bottom of the white trapezoid panels.
• Add three pink flowers to the doll's hair.