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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Oh my gosh! What beautiful doll cakes! The girls did a much better job than me - and it looks like you had a lovely time doing it. I must say that my favorite part was your great-nephew's graveyard with the doll's legs!! So creative! I'm going to share this on my community page - it's just so cute!!
ReplyDeleteWould be cute next time to make the dolls witches for Halloween. :)
ReplyDeleteI was planning to take a graveyard cake to an office pot-luck the other day. I had made (and written out) cookie headstones, piped a chocolate gate, picked up other spooky candy decorations, etc., but when I inverted the cake out of the pan to frost and decorate it, it completely fell apart lol. Might have to try again for when I'm in the office on Friday.
Great doll cakes and family too, for sure. Love that graveyard cake!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun memories you made for your great nieces! Your whole family does well in the kitchen!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great creative activity for the family to do. I love that the legs did not go to waste! Being supportive together is vital in times as difficult as this, and I am glad to read that there is a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteOh God, these cakes look incredibly beautiful !! This is really a wonderful job! One of my favs. I can't WAIT to try this! Thank you
ReplyDeleteThese cakes bring back memories! My hubby made our daughter a Barbie cake like this when she was little. Also, my hubby is a survivor of thyroid cancer. My heart goes out to your family with best wishes for health.
ReplyDeleteFamily really is everything! What an amazing thing to do for them. Making memories! :)
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think that maybe I should have another baby and maybe it will be a girl so I can make pretty cakes and things....but then I remember the two boys I have are already driving me crazy enough and I'll just let them use the legs for Halloween cakes instead - great ideas!!!
ReplyDeleteCancer sucks... but I'm so happy to hear they are both still cancer free 5 years later!! These cakes are such a fun idea, and a great way to get the kids involved
ReplyDeleteThese cakes a super cute. It is my granddaughter's birthday next month. I bet she would love me to make one of these for her.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe in what I see - it is an incredible piece of art! I would never allow myself to destroy such a beauty lol! Fantastic work - thank you for the recipe!
ReplyDeleteThese cakes look so easy to make. I know my little girl would go crazy if I had this cake at her next party.
ReplyDeleteI love the tradition of baking with the family. These memorable moments will be cherished for years to come!
ReplyDeleteWow and Wow! These cakes are really impressive! Very nice! My children will be delighted with this.
ReplyDeleteThis is really a great job. They are incredible. My kids love interesting cakes. I think they like it. Good idea for a festive table. Thank you for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteWow, you've made some pretty doll cakes for family and friends. I bet there must be some really happy little girls who will always remember their little doll cakes.
ReplyDeleteThese cakes are so beautiful and I love how easy to make them! My both daughters want to make a doll cake!
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun idea for Halloween, Claudia! These look very pretty and creative. XO
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear about your relatives and the struggle before them. That was very sweet of you to go to support them and spend some time with all of them. This is when family is important. In our family we lost someone to cancer -- it's not easy. I miss her every day. Those cakes are super cute! They were certainly made for a good cause.
ReplyDeleteThose doll cakes look amazing - you make it sound very easy to make too :-) Will have to try this for my daughter some time. Thank you for sharing.
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