How to Give Your Doll Cake A "Barbie" Look

A doll cake...one of the popular type of birthday cakes for girls. It is important for it to be of 'Barbie' proportions as little girls play with Barbie all the time and has an expectation on what a doll should be like.

This is the mold I used to bake the cake. Its Wilton's Classic Wonder Mold. It comes together with a Teen Doll Pick. I have inserted it into the mold so you can see the outcome after baking. The effect is a Victorian style of ballroom gown, Cinderella type. However, it could do with a little more height.

Here is an idea for the cake and filling. Its chocolate butter cake. I have this thing about chocolate and blueberries...so I have given it alternate layers of chocolate ganache and blueberry buttercream filling.

Next, place an upside down cupcake on top of the cake. The cupcake here is a normal butter cake to give a clear colour contrast for this tutorial. Two advantages here...you get a tapered waist as well as add height to the doll. The height problem might be caused by cake not raising or cake recipe insufficient to fill up the mold. The sharp edges from the cupcake bottom need to be trimmed before covering with fondant.

Once dressed up, this is what you will get. A doll cake with Barbie's statistics. It makes designing and creating the doll's dresses much more enjoyable. Have fun!

Cookie Decorating Class

Date : Saturday, 31st October 2009

Venue : Wah Seng, Ipoh

Time : 10:00 am - 12:30pm or 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Fee : RM100.00 per person

Syllabus : 1) make and bake basic Sugar Cookies

2) Color Flow icing recipe

3) hands-on decorating 6 different types of cookie

cut-outs with Color Flow and Fondant

Bring back 6 decorated cookies on that day.

6 Free Wilton cookie cutters worth RM3.80 each for each participant, courtesy of Wah Seng.

Wilton Course 3 - The Wedding Cake

This is the completion of my first Wilton Course 3 class, which is also the first batch of students graduating from Wah Seng, Ipoh. Have a closer look below at some of the wonderful graduation cakes done by students of this class.

Congratulations to everyone! And keep on baking and creating more beautiful cakes!

Related post:

• Wilton Course 3 - The Fondant Ribbon Cake

Squires Kitchen's 24th Annual Cake Decorating, Chocolate & Sugarcraft Exhibition

ICCA will be organizing a Malaysian entourage to attend the Squires Kitchen Annual Exhibition 2010 from 12th to 14th March, 2010.

Highlights of the event includes:

• The Wedding Cake Showroom
• Meet the Experts
• 5-Day International School
• Have-A-Go
• FREE Demonstrations
• FREE Goody Bags!
• Competitions
• Mini Classes
• Workshops
• Displays
• Show Offers
• Chocolate Area
• New Products
• Trade stands
• NEW Book

The Malaysian entourage under ICCA will be looking forward to additional benefits such as:

• Free 3 Day admission tickets worth 26 Sterling Pounds
• Special Table Space for the Malaysian entries at the Exhibition & Competition
• A free specially customized Chocolate class with Mark Tilling, the UK Chocolate Master 2006-2009 for just the Malaysian entourage.

Google searches for happenings of past years' events have not been successful. Most post are on pre-event promotions and pictures of individual cakes submitted for the competition. Would love to do a blog post on post-event here...guess I'm signing up to go! Will be making it my 2010 goal for further development of skills and exposure. So much to see, learn and just soak-up the happenings there!

Wilton Course 3 - The Fondant Ribbon Cake

The first half of Wilton Course 3 includes covering of the cake using fondant, making the fondant ribbon, flower cutouts and bead border. The above is done by me in class specially for a friend who just delivered a baby boy...that's the reason for the blue ribbon.

Class finished late as it was the first time for some working with fondant. Part 2 of the class this Saturday would see us completing a 3-tiered dummy wedding cake, incorporating all that was learnt in Course 1, 2 and 3. How exciting!

Wilton Course 2 (Sept 2009)

Wilton Course 2 has come and gone for my batch of 8 students who most of them will attending my Wilton Course 3 on October 3rd and 10th. An introduction here is appropriate.

Meet (from left to right)

Saras: who has been baking and decorating at every opportunity she get after completed her Course 1

Vinatha: will be wowing her husband and friends with her new skills when she gets back to Kuwait.

Syila: a supplier of steamed fruit cakes.

Evelyn: who has been waiting since last year for Course 2.

Janice: check-out her 25th wedding anniversary cake below.

Yeok Ping: runs a cafe up in Tanah Rata, Camerons.

Vivian: our official photographer.

Kelly: daughter of Mrs Lai who also blogs for Wah Seng

Graduating Course 2: The Basketweave Cake

Janice's cake.

East meets West 2009

The annual East Meets West demo is here! This is the time to be in touch with the latest decorating techinques and tools brought to you by ICCA. Rosalind Chan represents the west, demonstrating the latest cake decorating techniques from ICES convention in Chicago, and Alex Tan See Fong introducing his new range of tools and decorating techniques.

A fondant cake by Rosalind using Tan See Fong's new imprint below.

Fairy wings given a touch of Disco Dust, a new dusting powder that adds glitter.

Gelatine flower.

A cake with the above elements combined.

Tan See Fong's creations.