Hello and welcome to In The Kitchen With Matt.
I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to be making a Barbie doll cake for a
friend of mine.
Her daughter just turned six today and she loves Barbies.
So this cake is going to be for her.
It's pretty easy to do.
If I can do it, you can do it.
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Let's get started down below.
In the description box, you'll find a list of the
ingredients and their amounts.
Begin by baking your cakes.
Now I use three funfetti cake mixes so three boxes worth.
You can probably get away with just two and you don't have to
use a cake mix.
You can use any of my from scratch cakes if you like or
whatever your favorite cake recipe is, but you'll need at
least double or maybe even triple, depending on the
height of your Barbie.
And once you bake them, make sure you let
them cool completely.
And now it's time to decorate.
So this tutorial is more like decorating the Barbie cake,
not actual the cake itself, because I have plenty other
videos that show you how to make an actual cake.
All right.
And so this is the Barbie I'm going to be using
Dream Topia Barbie.
I don't know anything about Barbie, but anyway,
this one, I found that I thought it would be nice
to do, and this is her normal, normal dress.
And then what you want to do is you want to wrap the Barbie
from her waist down in some plastic wrap because the Barbie
is going to stick in the cake.
And now I have.
I baked four eight inch cakes and then one six inch
cake again, that took three boxes, but I'm going to
need probably two and a half.
And now we want to cut out the middle.
So put that right in the middle here
and I'm just using a biscuit cutter.
And then you can save these and you make them cake pops
with them, whatever you want to do, but save the cake and
then I want to make sure to take off this parchment paper.
And then I have some buttercream frosting, you'll be
using a lot of frosting, and I have a recipe for buttercream
frosting here on my channel, or you can
just use Store-Bought.
I'm going to come over here and just put a little bit down.
Just so my kid can stick to it.
And I am using a take board on a rotating turntable and just
makes it easier to to frost this style of cake.
And now I want to put some frosting all on the top here,
so I'm just going to go like this.
And that's just for us, the top here, and you can make
this frosting as thick as you want
or thin as you want in the middle.
Also, I want to mention if your cake is really domed quite
a bit, then you'll want to level it with a knife.
Now we take the next layer.
This is a thicker layer, still eight inch, but I just
put more batter into it to make this one thicker.
And in this one, I'm going to put down this side down.
I think I'm going to pipe some in the corners here.
All right, got some more frosting on the top.
Take out that middle.
This one is dumb, just a little too much.
I'm going to come in here
with my bread knife and just flatten out that dome
a little bit.
Now, this one, I don't mind if there's a dome on the top,
because that's going to be perfect.
It helps with the bell shape of our cake dress.
And so I just want to go right in the middle here.
And that looks perfect.
And now we want to start trimming it and dumping it,
which is kind of like a dome or like a bell shape.
And so you can use a bread knife or like a carving knife
, and
I'm just going to kind of go down here.
And the extra cake bits you can use for cake box.
So then just trim it until you're happy with it.
You know how sometimes dresses are puffier in the back and
in the front.
So you can do like a more gradual angle on the backs of
like this is the back of a dress.
And then more of a sharp down angle in the front.
It's kind of looked and I'm going for it here.
So that's probably pretty good.
Let me clean up this bottom here coming off of some paper
towel and wipe the bottom of the skateboard and then come in
with some clean hands, very clean hands, and you want
to just kind of push around and kind of stick any
extra crumbs, make sure they're sticking there and then wear
gloves if you don't want to touch this with your hands.
But my hands are very clean.
We're just going to shape it a little bit, too.
And now we want to frost the whole thing.
I'm just going to use the same buttercream frosting.
Once you have a bunch of frosting all over it, you can
use your cake spatula and just go around and smooth it
out or.
I have one of these.
Just a plastic thing, you can just come in here and just go
like this
to try to just smooth it out
and just you can just go really light with it so you can see
how a a turntable works really well.
Also, there's another tool that's plastic like this that
you can also use.
Helps me with everything else.
And then I'm going to take the Barbie.
And put her right down in there.
Now I want to mix up some frosting,
some purple frosting, and I just have this purple
gel food coloring.
I'm just going to put some in there right now.
And I'm going to put this in my piping bag, and I have the
Wilton 1:00 am tip, it's a very popular tip for
making flowers.
Or you can also use a different one, which is the
Wilton 2D this one.
And so what I'm going to do, I mean, double bagged a
double bag technique.
That way, you can swap the bags out and not mess up and leave
the tip where it is.
And so I'm going to put this in here.
OK, and then I'll take this one
and this will go right in there.
I'm just going to do a basic little flower pattern.
And so I'm going to just take my bag here
and to do that, I'm going to kneel down here just so it's
a little easier.
You want to be perpendicular.
You can go right here in the middle
and go around like that.
And it just takes a little practice, I'm not the
best designer by any means.
Now I'm going to switch to the strawberry and you want to make
sure that you go right on the cake before you draw because
the flower needs something to hold on to.
I mean, the motion again for this is you go straight down
perpendicular and then squeeze and turn.
And they are going to switch back to purple.
All right, and then I have another color, this pink,
neon pink.
I'm going to do a little bit different flower to.
Wash it off.
OK, so there we go, and then you'll notice there might
be some gaps.
And what you can do is I'm going to come in here again
with this little star tip
and I'm just going to go straight down
and just punch in this film.
Those gaps appear.
And then I switched to a white colour and I can fill in more
gaps with the white if there are any.
I kind of like the weight it makes it look like the stars
from that dress and now to finish it off, I have these
they're called sugar pearls.
Wilton makes them again.
This is purely optional, just makes it look kind
of neat.
I'm going to just start dropping these.
In a variety of places.
All right, there we go.
I am done.
Now I'm going to take this little.
Twist the tie off of her hair so we can let her hair down and
then put her the tiara.
I think that's what it's called or crown or whatever we want to
call it,
right on top.
And there we go.
That is the Barbie doll cake.
Again, there's a lot of different designs that you can
do with it.
You know, they take some practice.
I'm not the best designer, but you can have fun with it
and practice on your own.
I'm Matt Taylor.
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