Food art with creating shaped cakes is made easy with these directions and perfect for a child's birthday party, bride-to-be or wedding shower, and even for baby showers with just a few creative ideas you may have.
We happen to have a crisis in the family with two of my nieces having cancer and since it was October and Breast Cancer Awareness month plus Halloween we made cakes to support both a holiday and support the cause of cancer in this month.
This family project was a huge success inspiring hope and giving joy to be together during a stressful time in our lives.
These special cakes can be transformed for just about any holiday or party event you have going on in your busy lifestyle and will surely impress your friends and family.
The memories that were made making these doll cakes together will last a lifetime.
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Doll Cake Inspirations
My inspiration for these cakes was to support two nieces who were diagnosed with Breast Cancer and other Thyroid at a very young age in their 30s and 40s.
As a family we all got together and made a pink cake to Support Breast Cancer Awareness and the other was Halloween Fun for the little ones to enjoy.
The cake for cancer was not only to support but for fundraising for others and to be aware, Cancer warrants no one and can happen at any age.
It's not only stressful for the one afflicted with this dreadful disease but the family feels helpless, all we can do is pray for a good outcome.
In our case, both have been in complete remission for 5 years.
Family Support for Cancer is Important for Healing
This project brought everyone together, we made two cakes that would be a joint effort of creativity and love as we collaborated on our thoughts.
Not only was this fun it surely kept our minds off the impending surgeries and made lots of great memories together thankfully through God's hands and love.
Tools To Have Ready
- electric mixer for the cake
- metal icing offset spatula
- 4 cup glass measuring cup
- dollar store generic doll that comes apart easily
- ribbon to match the theme
- sprinkles and sanding sugars for decorating
- bowls
- measuring cup
- measuring spoons and wooden skewers (the cake is deep you will need to ensure you use this for testing the doneness of the cake
- cardboard round serving tray for the cake
- wax paper
- parchment paper
Creative Fun Cakes
Her mom Pam was so proud to see how her Breast Cancer awareness cake came out, it was hard to cut and eat it Samantha made it so beautiful.
This was such a pretty creation.
Halloween Cakes
Vinny used the legs to make a Halloween cake, crumbled cookies for the top to look like dirt, and decorated it with the legs upside down, nothing went to waste with the dolls and cake batter!
Witch Doll Cake
The witch was a little trickier making a hat out of thick ribbon and finding some eery-looking sprinkles to add to her purple dress.
Adriana's cake came together perfectly and made it look easier to make than it looked!
Events, Benefits, and Holiday Doll Cakes
I had a blast making such fun memories with Samantha, Vinnie, and Adriana
Their minds got beyond creative making cakes for Halloween, for Fund Raiser Benefits and these adorable Doll Cakes have endless possibilities
Doll Cakes, can be used for birthdays, events, Christmas, Easter, Weddings, baby showers, the perfect way fundraiser, and for any kind of party.
Tips for Making Doll Cakes
- Heavily grease a 4-cup glass oven PROOF baking measuring cup or line with parchment paper for easy cleanup and removal
- use piping cake decorating tools to make Bride cakes and fancy cakes
- for smooth frosting dip a metal spreading knife in boiling water to smooth out the icing on the cake
- pound cake works great for this deep-baked cake
- use a long kabob wooden skewer stick to ensure the middle is cooked (or metal cake tester)
- cool for 4 minutes before inverting
- invert on wax paper on a cupboard round platform (wax paper cut in two pieces) place the cake on top, decorate, and pull the two halves of wax paper out from the bottom of the cake when completed icing it
- Note: Instead of using a glass measuring cup (we had one on hand you can also purchase a doll cake baking pan made by Wiltons.
Cakes and Frosting to Use
- Store Bought Boxed Cakes of any flavor or Homemade Pound Cake from Scratch (we used our Lemon Loaf Recipe)
- Make Our Homemade Fluffy Buttercream instead of canned frosting
- Brownie mixPound Cake recipes
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Yield: 2
Doll Cakes
These are cakes made into holiday dolls and event benefits to raise money these are terrific to raffle off. The bottom is made with cake and then decorated with frosting.
Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 40 MinTotal time: 55 Min
Ingredients
- 1- 4 cup glass measuring cup oven proof heavily greased
- 1 cake mix made to package instructions any flavor or make our homemade lemon loaf pound cake
- 1 can of colored store-bought frosting to match your themed cake or make our homemade buttercream
- colorful sprinkles of choice to match the theme or sanding colorful sugar
- coordinating ribbons to match the theme
- generic Barbie dolls bought from the dollar store that comes apart at the waist ( you will only need from the waist up)
- Popsicle sticks
- Shortening, flour, and oil (1/2 cup each mixed together for greasing the glass for easy removal of the cakes)
Instructions
- Pour the cake batter into a heavily greased and floured measuring glass cup or cut out parchment paper to fit the glass.
- Only fill the glass measuring cup around halfway into the measuring up.
- Bake to package instructions.
- Cool for a few minutes and dump onto a wax-papered cookie sheet to decorate. Cool completely.
- Take the doll head to the waist off the plastic generic doll and insert this into the cake.
- Note: I used the legs for a graveyard cake in this post with the leftover batter baked into a smaller-inch pan. We decorated that cake with crushed chocolate-filled cookies to look like dirt and gummy worms with chocolate frosting on top. The put the legs upside down in the cake shoes up for an eery graveyard cake.
- Frost and decorate to whatever theme you like. I am sure you will get creative!
- For the Pink Breast Cancer Awareness doll cake, I used a breast cancer awareness ribbon from the dollar store and pink frosting.
- I bought the ribbon from the dollar stores cut a portion to make a witch hat and did purple and black frosting to make the witch.
Notes
Tips for Making Doll Cakes
- Heavily grease a 4-cup glass oven PROOF baking measuring cup or line with parchment paper for easy cleanup and removal
- use piping cake decorating tools to make Bride cakes and fancy cakes
- for smooth frosting dip a metal spreading knife in boiling water to smooth out the icing on the cake
- pound cake works great for this deep-baked cake
- use a long kabob wooden skewer stick to ensure the middle is cooked (or metal cake tester)
- cool for 4 minutes before inverting
- invert on wax paper on a cupboard round platform (wax paper cut in two pieces) place the cake on top, decorate, and pull the two halves of wax paper out from the bottom of the cake when completed icing it
- Note: Instead of using a glass measuring cup (we had one on hand you can also purchase a doll cake baking pan made by Wiltons.
Tools To Have Ready
- electric mixer for the cake
- metal icing offset spatula
- 4 cup glass measuring cup
- dollar store generic doll that comes apart easily
- ribbon to match the theme
- sprinkles and sanding sugars for decorating
- bowls
- measuring cup
- measuring spoons and wooden skewers (the cake is deep you will need to ensure you use this for testing the doneness of the cake
- cardboard round serving tray for the cake
- wax paper
- parchment paper
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