Pink Princess Cake!!

Ok, the first thing I’m going to do for this cake is post the link to the Wilton Cake Pan Instructions. You aren’t going to necessarily follow them to a T–but enough of it comes from the instructions–that you should look them over. I will let you in on a little secret…this cake SHOCKED me! I think it’s amazing–and honestly, it took a little time–a failed attempt on fondant coloring–but seriously, this was one of the easiest cakes I’ve ever done. In fact, since the fondant is like playdough, I literally used scissors to cut the flairs on the top layer to make them hang how I wanted then to over the white ruffles. Everything on this doll is fondant, other than the pink strings of frosting, and the little rosettes scattered around the top of the skirt. I don’t have the fancy “air brushing” guns you see on some cake shows to color the fondant, so I used food coloring diluted in water–and I had a little paint brush to add a little dimension inside the folds of the dress, and some edible pink glitter over that.

To make the white ruffles I simply rolled the fondant out, and then used the “Fondant Cutter/Embosser” from Wilton. I can’t find a link to buy one–so I will just tell you what it is for now. It cuts in a squiggily line which gives the fondant the ruffle look. Then, I took a toothpick and inside of each of the downward loops I pushed the toothpick through the fondant and made a hole. I cut the fondant to about 1 inch wide and then made another ribbon doing the same thing. None of the white fondant is over 1 inch tall. There is one long ribbon going around the entire base of the doll. Then in the front you simply add the ribbon like you do shingles on a roof, from the bottom to the top, so that the next layer up–covers the rough edge of the ribbon below it. That’s it–all there was to the ruffles.

For the pink overlay I just cut a large circle in my rolled out fondant and laid it over the top of the skirt. I smoothed it over the cake and the folds and then took my scissors and started trimming it where I wanted it. A little shorter to show the ruffles at the bottom, but a little longer over the folds to get the flair. Then when I got to the front, I simply cut a triangle out of the fondant just wide enough to cover the edges of the ruffles. Truly…simple!The doll’s body was really easy too. I did the same thing with her top portion as I did for the ruffles, although I didn’t use the toothpick. With a little water on the paint brush, paint over the dolls body. This acts as glue for the fondant.

The bow on the back is fondant, the flowers are fondant–once you have your pieces made, you just adhere them to the dress with a little frosting. Like I said, it took a while to finish, but there was nothing difficult about it at all.

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