thanks Trace for the blog post below - however, Trace has encouraged me to do a little how to on the cake -
here's the disclaimer - i am no baker so i say this and it may sound a little cliched but if i can - anyone can!
what i have realised through my "fairy cake baking experience" is that all you need is to get started ....the idea's that make it simple ...so i give credit to "Cooper's grandmother" ..she is a lovely lady and the grandmother to a little friend of my son's from kinder....before i met her i really did not think i could pull this off ....
so i thought i would share this just in case you needed a starting point.....
firstly you will need:
a barbie - not an expensive barbie [i got mine for less the $10] - you may have one at home that looks "princess-ish" white icing - like the type used for christmas cakes - i bought mine from the supermarket [boxed and ready to go] fairy wings...2-dollar shops are a great source for picking up these sorts of bits & pieces 1/ Bake a cake in your pudding tin - I chose to use a chocolate cake rather then a sponge [well I love chocolate cake - oh and they seem to be a little more dense then the sponge cake and I thought it would make it easier to decorate]
2/ Prepare "Barbie" - not much involved here except that i had to "pull barbie's legs off" - they do come off by the way and i have managed to put them back. Get her dressed if you need to - I bought mine kind of ready to go so all i did was cut her dress and then used a piece of the cut-off bit for the sash!
3/Roll out white icing in a big circle - i used the instructions on the pack ...but basically it required me to roll out the white icing over a surface dusted with icing sugar [so you can lift it off the surface]. My hubby checked to see if it was going to be big enough [he did some circumference measures using a string and skewer].....we used a cookie cuter to make a small hole in the centre of our rolled out icing on where Barbie was going
4/Place rolled icing over chocolate cake - first you will need to brush the chocolate cake with a sugar syrup [i got the recipe for this from the back of the white icing pack]..... gently lift the rolled out white icing and place it over the cake...i needed help to do this [it takes two people]....once i dropped it over the cake i did not touch it ..however it fell is how i left it ...this gives the "dolls dress" a draped look. 5/Place Barbie in centre - scope out a little bit of the cake [deep enough to hold barbie] and place barbie inside cake. I tied a sash to cover the joins. 6/ Attach Fairy Wings
Enjoy
Sheena
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