The original Barbie cake will make a children's holiday a real event. Two in one - a treat + a toy will bring joy to the girl, and if the cake is made personally from quality home-made products, then this is a double pleasure for all participants in the celebration.

How to make a cake in the form of a Barbie doll

The idea of ​​an unusual treat is simple: the main decorative element of the cake is a real Barbie doll, inserted in the center into a fluffy "skirt" consisting of several cakes layered with cream. A variety of sugar jewelry and intricate details made of cream or mastic add to the edible along with sophistication and believability.

Pay attention to the important nuances for the assembly of the cake:

  1. Bake cakes at once of different diameters in order to lay them in the form of a pyramid. Another way: bake 1 or 2 high cakes and cut them lengthwise into the desired number of layers.
  2. Any dough for the base: biscuit, custard, shortbread or puff pastry.
  3. Spread the finished cakes with cream and collect in the form of a slide, leave in the refrigerator overnight to soak them.
  4. In the morning, work on aligning the Barbie cake with your own hands, trimming it in the form of a rounded pyramid or hemisphere. Mash the trimmer with a fork and use it to grease bumps and crevices.
  5. The size of the cake should correspond to the height of the doll so that the necessary proportions are observed.
  6. If you plan a small cake, for these purposes you need to choose a suitable dummy doll (without the lower part) or find a model of a toy where you can detach the torso.
  7. When using the whole doll, its lower part must be wrapped with cling film to prevent contact of the plastic with the finished product.
  8. In the center of the pyramid of cakes, make a hole of round diameter, where you insert Barbie.
  9. Decorate the cake according to your own taste and the chosen recipe.

Cake "Barbie doll" from cream, for the girl

 

This is the most affordable option in terms of products and easy to execute; even a novice confectioner will cook it. You will need:

For biscuit:

  • 6 eggs;
  • 2/3 Art. Sahara;
  • 1 tbsp. flour;
  • vanillin - 1 pack;
  • grease to lubricate the mold.

Important! On a large cake, the number of products must be counted.

For Charlotte Butter Cream:

  • 3 tbsp. milk;
  • 3 tbsp. Sahara;
  • 3 eggs;
  • 0.5 kg of butter (good quality - not a spread!).

Advice! Remove the food from the refrigerator a few hours before cooking so that it has the same temperature. It is advisable to bake a biscuit in advance so that it can "rest" for 5-6 hours before assembly.

  1. Beat the eggs in the foam, gradually adding sugar. At the end of whipping, put vanillin into the mixture.
  2. After the mass becomes light, thick and homogeneous (the sugar is completely dissolved), introduce the sifted flour in 2-3 doses, carefully mixing.
  3. Grease a baking dish with fat and lightly sprinkle with flour, then put the biscuit mixture in it. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C for about 40 minutes without opening the cabinet door for the first 20 minutes.
  4. Cut chilled biscuit into layers with a strong thread or a thin long knife.
  5. For cream, take a pan with a thick bottom and heat milk in it.
  6. Add sugar and bring the mixture to a boil.
  7. In another bowl, beat the eggs well and, without stopping beating, pour hot milk-sugar syrup into them in a thin stream.
  8. When everything is mixed, put the saucepan with the mixture in a water bath and slowly warm until the mixture thickens, preventing it from boiling. Chill.
  9. Beat softened butter in a mixer, gradually adding the resulting mixture to it. After stirring, put the cream in the refrigerator for 1-1.5 hours. After that, you can proceed to the assembly of the cake.
  10. Before decorating the product, coat its surface with a thin layer of cream and cool again. Use confectionery nozzles of different shapes and sizes to create a beautiful relief of the surface of the cake.

Do it yourself mastic

The main difference between the recipe and the previous one is the way to decorate the finished cake. One caveat: if you want to use other options, then know that the decor of mastic is not compatible with wet creams, which means sour cream, milk custard or cream cream will not work, you just need oil.

Alternative: make a dense coating of the cake with softened butter to prevent contact of the mastic with the cream from the layer.

Mastic recipe

  • 200 g marshmallows;
  • 250 g of powdered sugar;
  • 100 g of corn starch;
  • 2 tbsp. l butter;
  • 1-2 tsp lemon juice.

If you need mastic of different colors, enter food colors in the recipe at the stage of heating in a microwave oven. Dry - first dilute in a small amount of water. Do not add a lot of paint - from them the mastic becomes less ductile.

  1. Put in a bowl of marshmallows, melted butter and lemon juice, put in the microwave for 1 min. Slices of air marshmallows will double and become soft. Stir the mixture until smooth.
  2. Sift the icing sugar and starch through a fine sieve. Add to them the hot marshmallow-sugar mixture and knead the mastic. Knead until the mass stops sticking to the hands.
  3. Wrap the mastic in cling film and leave for half an hour.

What to look for when working with mastic:

  • Starting to work with mastic, cool the product in the refrigerator, and even better - in the freezer.
  • Prime the surface of the “skirt” very carefully - the mastic reveals the slightest bumps.
  • Use powdered sugar of the finest grinding for the preparation of the mastic mass, otherwise, when rolling the grains of sugar, the layer will tear.
  • The cooled mastic is poorly molded to restore the previous elasticity, set it for 1 min. in the microwave.
  • Roll mastic mass on starch or powder.
  • Carry large or long fragments by wrapping them on a rolling pin.
  • Glue all small parts with water - 1-2 drops on a brush, no more.

The order of decorating Barbie cake from mastic:

  1. First, pull the edible “corset” on the doll.
  2. Cut from the rolled mastic a long narrow strip with scallops around the edge - this will be the bottom frill of the “dress”. Attach it on the bottom of the cake, laying it with uniform forks.
  3. Make a large circle for the base of the “dress” (R = distance from the top of the pyramid to its base). Put a circle on the cake - smoothly fitting in the upper part and forming folds in the lower one.
  4. The quantity, length and color of the upper skirts depend on your desire.
  5. The joint of the "skirt" and "corset" mask with a belt of mastic, sugar beads, or other small edible jewelry.

This is just one of the options for a cake decorated with mastic, but nothing prevents you from being creative and designer savvy.

Based on chocolate cakes

Of course, if you add a couple of spoons of cocoa powder to the biscuit dough recipe, you get something “chocolate”, but do it differently: use natural chocolate in the butter biscuit, and specifically, use a regular dark bitter bar with the highest content of cocoa beans that you can find . And you will not regret it!

So, you will need:

  • 0.5 tbsp. flour;
  • 100 g butter;
  • 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
  • 4 eggs;
  • 1 pack vanillin (5 g);
  • 1 bar (100 g) of dark chocolate;
  • 10 g of baking powder.

Before starting work, preheat the oven, sift the flour with baking powder and separate the proteins from the yolks.

Next in order:

  1. Mix soft butter with vanilla.
  2. Break the bar of chocolate into slices and place the dishes with it in a water bath, melt to a liquid state, and then cool to room temperature.
  3. Mix chocolate with butter and vanilla.
  4. In the chocolate mass, with stirring, enter one at a time, yolks.
  5. Beat chilled proteins until a dense foam.
  6. Gradually add flour to the chocolate-butter mixture, kneading thoroughly.
  7. Mix the protein foam into the mass in small portions.
  8. Now is the time to grease the cake mold with fat, dust it with flour and put the chocolate dough there.
  9. Bake at 180-200 ° C for half an hour.

The incomparable aroma of natural chocolate will notify you that the biscuit is ready. Make a cream for the layer of shortcakes to your taste: delicate - custard from milk, simple - with condensed milk, gourmet - from whipped cream. Barbie cake decor is made from butter cream or mastic using the above technologies.

With edible picture

An unusual cake for girls can be made using food paper - waffle or sugar, on which a drawing with your favorite characters is applied.

First, attach the edible picture to a substrate of a thin layer of mastic using a special food gel or vodka. Do everything with dry hands, because a drop of moisture accidentally caught can ruin the picture.

Carefully smooth the surface of the food paper with your palm or a special iron so that there are no bubbles. Then crop the protruding edges of the mastic exactly along the contour of the edible picture. Transfer parts to baking paper and leave to dry for no more than a day.

Then you can proceed to the final design of the cake. Remember that mastic should not come into contact with wet surfaces, therefore, to coat the top layer of the product, use only oil-based creams. Along the edges of the product, apply ganache drips or cream decorations using the “star” confectionery nozzle.

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