Pink Princess Cake

Ingredients

• 250g (9oz) soft butter or margarine
• 250g (9oz) caster sugar
• 250g (9oz) self-raising flour, sifted
• 4 medium size eggs
• 2 level tsp Dr. Oetker Baking Powder

For the butter icing

• 1 x 325g tub Dr. Oetker EasyIce Vanilla Butter Icing

Or

• 100g (3 ½oz) butter, softened
• ½ tbsp hot water
• 150g (5 ½oz) icing sugar sifted

• To decorate

• 750g (1lb 8oz) pink roll out icing or Dr. Oetker White Ready to Roll Icing coloured with a few drops of Dr. Oetker Pink Food Colouring
• 25 Dr. Oetker Silver Balls
• Dr. Oetker Pink Food Colour
• Dr. Oetker Barbie™ Sprinkles
• 1 packet Dr. Oetker Barbie™ Glitter Writing Gel
• 1 Barbie-style doll, about 125cm (11 inches) high, unclothed
• Dr. Oetker 25cm (10 inch) round cake board
• blossom cutters

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC/350ºF/Gas Mark 4. Grease and flour 20cm (8 inch) square tin.
2. Put all the ingredients into a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon. Alternatively use a food processor and process on high speed for about 2 minutes or until smooth.
3. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and cook in the oven for approx. 1 ¼ - 1 ½ hours until firm to touch or the blade of a knife inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
4. Wrap clingfilm around the doll’s legs up to her waist and tie her hair back.  Cut the cake into three even sections horizontally. With a cutter or sharp knife, cut a hole in the centre of each section large enough for the doll’s legs.
5. Use EasyIce to sandwich the cake back together and stick the cake to the board with a little EasyIce. Alternatively, to make your own butter icing put the butter into a bowl with the hot water and mix together well. Beat in the sifted icing sugar a little at a time, until the mixture is light and creamy.
6. Place the doll in the hole and spread a thin layer of EasyIce or homemade butter icing all over the cake. Chill to firm.
7. Using 50g (1¾oz) of the pink icing, make eight thin sausages and stick them to the skirt (these will make the folds).
8. For the skirt, roll out 500g (1lb 2oz) pink icing into an oblong about 45 x 15cm (20 x 6 inches). Roll the icing onto a rolling pin and then unroll it around the cake making sure that the join is at the back. Trim off the excess down the join, the waist and around the base of the skirt and smooth down the icing with your thumbs to define the folds.
9. For the flowers, thinly roll out 50g (1¾ oz) pink icing. Cut out the flowers using the medium-sized blossom cutter and, with a little warm water, stick a row around her waist with a Silver Ball in the centre of each, or use ready-made sugar flowers.
10. For the top, roll out the remaining icing. Paint with Pink Food Colour mixed with a little water and scatter with sparkles. Cut out two 5cm (2 inch) squares and two 8 x 1.5cm (3 x 5/8 inch) strips. Brush a little water on the doll’s body. Place one square on the front of the torso and smooth down the edges. Using a little water, stick the other square on the back and then thin strips around the top.
11. Pipe decoration onto the dress with Barbie™ Glitter Writing Gel.
12. Undo the doll’s hair and sprinkle with pink iridescent sparkles.