hello i'm valerie from the decoratingroom all of us in the cake decorating world know that doll cakes are classic so as you can see here i have threedifferent varieties of cakes and this is just the starting point that the options are and endless so i usebuttercream you can use fondant and what i'm gonna show you today is howto do a really simple buttercream based doll cake so as youcan see here we use really simple techniques spatula icing, simple piping, and
just really comes out super nice youdon't have to put a lot and lot of hours into making your doll cakes i'mgonna show you how easy it is to do so let's get started so included in the the wonder mold pan set is everythingyou need to bake your cake you'll get your doll pic right here and you also get all the pieces toassemble so when you're baking it can rest on thestand and then this is a heating core that you'll stick into thecenter right here so when you're baking and helps to bakeevenly. so you don't over bake your cake
so what i did, i have one here is i took fondant, i rolled outfondant a pink color since that's what the cake is that will be showing you and i just wrapped it around her torsoarea and you can just put a little piping gel underneath to have it adhere you can also pipe it with buttercreamor royal icing this one simple but you can get asdetailed as you want to so the first thing you do once your cakeis baked, like we have here and because of the core there will be ahole already in the center
so you just going to stick your doll pic right in the center like that you can also put a little buttercreaminto the hole a little to hold it in place if you want to and we're going to ice it, so i have myicing here and we're just gonna do it pretty thick layer of icing because in order to do the technique that i'm gonna show youit's better to have your icing thicker because we're gonna take aspatula and go down like that as you can see there
once you get all the way to the top we can smooth it out with our spatula now i didn't do a crumb coat but you can. the reason i did not do a crumb coat because i didn't cut into the cake at all so there wasn't really any crumbsbut if you're adding flavor and layers or additional cakes to add height youcould certainly crumb coat it first so were going to ice thissmooth all the way around okay so to get this technique that yousee here the spatula iced look it almost giveslike a
ruffled layered look so what we'regonna do is take a smaller spatula an offset spatula i like to use and i like to start in the middle andwork my way around so basically are you gonna do is applypressure and pull downward you could go straight down if you wantedtoo. i like to go on an angle think it looks a little more naturalthat way and if you have a wet towel that's handy and were going to make these marks like this. you can be as if youwant a lot a definition you can
go deeper which will require a little more icing and now to get the second look so you get the ridge in between space it outjust slightly and then go back down again you need togo over a couple times to get a more defined look go up this way too the great thing about this method isit doesn't have to be perfect it looks more natural makes it look more edible. you reallywant to eat it when
you see the buttercream this way so you just gonna follow this method all the way around the cake alright so once you have all of your cake spatula iced, like this. thenext step is to do this ruffled part that you seehere so what i have here is a 127d tip, it's areally big petal tip and what we're going to do is pipe
ruffles on either side so we're gonnastart in the middle of the front of her andwe're gonna work downwards and come in meet in the backif you don't make it all the way to the back that's okay there's ways you can fix that in the end and becasue it's a little tricky to get all the way from the front to theback so let me show you how we do this so you want to have the thinner edge of your petal tip to be the bottom part and the fatterend to be what's
resting against the cake we're gonnastart here and you wanna drape it down just like this and move your cake stand if you can and then we're gonna bring it up to theback like that so that's your first. now we're going todo second part and try and have your next to ruffle where your starting point lineup with your first right there and then just drape it down like this and come up and meet in the
back then pull away, then we will do it again and then our last one so there's your first ruffle there.we're gonna start the second half and this part gets alittle tricky because you want to be able to meet the same height go down the same way curve around as the first half so going to take a little eye balling you wanna drape itdown pull it up
like that okay and then repeat the same thingagain okay so now that we have our rufflesdone week can do the finishing touches so herei have a tip a star tip, a number fourteen and what we are going to is pipe little stars around the bodice area and also around the bottom border sothis really helps to cover up any blemishes you may have or imperfections you don't have to use astart if you can use whatever
you think looks best so we're just gonnaget in there and pipe stars were gonna go all theway around and then also on the bottom okay so once you have your border done. now what i like to do like you see here isjust have maybe some gradual piping coming up along the side justadd a little more detail and also to cover up some some spots if you're not happy with theway the cake looks
so i use the same type and everythingyou can change your pressure to make the stars a little smaller asyou go up so basically i just randomly pipe a fewstars and some like that you can just do thisall the way around the cake again like you see the spot here you canjust pipe a star right in there and it's gone and you just do this all the way aroundyour cake you couldn't use different colors if you wanted to incorporate the ruffle you could use those colorsfor the stars whatever
whatever you think looks best so i'm going to go all around this cake and then it'll be done so for more tips and techniques go to wilton.com