While I was making the cake I had a question rumbling through my mind...
Should I be making a barbie cake with teenage boys in the house...naked barbie with icing covering her top parts and cake that was going to be cut away covering her bottom parts? I told myself not to worry about it, but sure enough comments were made about how to get the icing off barbie when we were cutting into the cake and exposing Barbie's d'arrière.
But the cake was good. I used the Swan's Down Cake Flour 1-2-3-4 Cake Recipe. For the icing I used the a simple pwdr sugar & butter recipe.
Elise specifically asked (several times) for an insulated tumbler like the starbucks one that Cathron got me a couple of years ago. I think she would have been happy if that was all she got. I found a floral one at Steinmart for $5. She also got an American Girl doll carrier that I found for $.95 at the Veterans Thrift store. Living Social Deals had a $10 deal for $20 worth of stuff at Learning Express toys so I picked up a Melissa and Doug sticker/paper doll pad and a mermaid doll for her there. It was a pretty inexpensive birthday, we'll see if I can do as well with Stewart's birthday next week and John-Thomas's birthday in another couple of weeks.
5 comments:
gorgeous cake! well done my friend. The sugar was tricky to get on the cake. But know that we've accomplished this cake, we can strive for more! I have 2 more cakes to make in a month. A mermaid and a Star Wars theme. Wish me luck.
Thank you, Stewart would like a Star Wars cake, what do you have in mind?
I'm thinking the easy thing to do is to buy one of those edible flat sheet cake toppers with a picture of star wars on a simple cake round or rectangle cake. I've seen some as cheap as $5 and some around $12 on etsy. But I'm still googling. The R2D2 cake looks really daunting. I've never done fondant, so it could either be fun, or frustrating...
Sooo funny about the naked Barbie! I totally understand that... preteen boy at our house!
Great job Emily!
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