Since I am now home all the time there is time to do things like make our own Birthday cakes! It may not be all glamor and perfectly perfect like the ones from the bakery but I think they are more special when they come from mom- or in this case from Mom and DAD. So I gotta share them both. The last one we did was for our 9 year old. I came up with a Barbie in bed with a "scrap quilt" for a cover.
I will show you the steps we took in making this cake. The easy way out was taken for the cake itself. This is a box cake mix! I normally make my cakes from scratch- no boxes for me. I let the hubby bake the cake though for this.
We cut the top off the cake and set it aside. (Do not throw this away!)
Then we laid Barbie down (no pic of this) and cut an outline around her. Then scooped out the cake to form a cavity for her to lay in.
Apply a partial "white sheet" (White Frosting) to the top part of the "mattress" that will be showing.
Cut a giant Marshmallow in half and use 1/2 for her pillow. Sorry no pillowcase!
Lay Barbie in her cavity now. We bought a $5.00 Barbie with a swimsuit on. We left her dressed so there was no obscene pictures taken! :)
Then we packed some of the chunks of cake back around her legs.
Then we put the unquilted blanket on top of her (the top of the cake we cut off.)
Then add a base of white.
Now for the "quilt". We put blobs of white frosting in 6 bowls. You know those stir in color/flavor packets that you can buy for frosting now? There were coupons out a while back for totally free packets. I had 6 coupons so I got all different flavors! I didnt think about possibly needing to only put part of a packet in each bowl so as not to over do it with flavor. Luckily it wasnt bad. Everybody said it tasted fine! ( I cant eat it because of my diabetes)
So the quilt was 6 flavor & color scraps.
Just ignore everything else for a minute in the pictur except for the licorice. We used licorice strings/laces for the quilt to frame each square in.
The hubby added the gummy bears beside Barbies pillow.
I think Barbies bed looked pretty comfy in the end!
Ok so for the cans of frosting and the bowl of gumballs you seen in one of the above pictures- well she wanted Birthday treats for her class at school....
First there comes mini cupcakes
Then comes the Ice cream cone cupcakes.
Then a dab of frosting on each cone and cupcake.
The mini cupcakes get flipped upside down on to the cones.
This is where the cans of frosting and gumballs come in to the picture! Ice cream cone cupcakes. No Icecream involved.
My next post will be the other cake we did for my 16 year old.
