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Today we're looking at how to make a princess
cake, using buttercream and vanilla cake.
To start with, to make your cake, put all
the ingredients in the mixing bowl, and set
it on high and leave it for about 2 or 3 minutes,
until it is light and creamy.
While that is mixing, you need to take a bowl
that's about the size that you want the skirt
to be and spray it with some cooking oil,
and also you need one tin that also needs
to be sprayed with cooking oil.
Take some baking paper.
We're going to line the tin with baking paper.
Fold it in half, and fold it in half again.
Using one hand here, because I've got my baby
on my hip.
Then once you've folded it in half 4 times,
simply cut one corner around, in the shape
of your tin.
And then when you unfold it, you've got your
circle ready to go in the base of your tin.
And that is ready for your cake.
Check your mixture, it should be looking like
this light, fluffy and white-ish in colour.
You need to half fill your tin.
If you put anymore than that in there it's
going to overflow when it rises in the oven.
Then when I'm making my cakes that I want
to layer, I like to push more mixture towards
the edge and away from the middle.
Even though when you put it in the oven it's
going to flow back into the middle, this seems
to stop the large doming effect and the sides
being too low.
Put the rest of the mixture into the oven-proof
bowl and then push that towards the edge again.
Bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes
and then move both of them down to a lower
shelf in the oven and then put a baking tray
over the top, so they don't burn on top.
The bowl in particular is going to take a
while to cook.
You just need to keep checking it by placing
a knife in the middle to see if it's done.
If the knife comes out clean, it's done.
Once it's cooked, tip it out and allow it
to cool completely.
And then we want to trim around the top edge
of the bowl.
Cause we want it to be the shape of a skirt,
not the shape of a bowl turned upside down.
So you need to take a sharp knife and trim
off around the top.
Start doing little by little.
You can always take off more.
And then we're gonna cut this into 3 layers.
Being careful not to cut your hand.
There's one, and then there's two and three.
So you're doing two cuts through which gives
you the three layers.
Then take your cake, which I don't need to
level the top, because as I said, the way
of moving it away from the middle has meant
that we've got a flat cake on top.
So we're just cutting it into 2 layers for
our base layer.
There we go.
And then using a cookie cutter for each of
those layers in the middle, take out a centre
circle.
This is to allow room to put the legs of the
doll down the middle of the cake.
Then you can eat those bits.
Then we're going to take some simple syrup.
The recipe for that is on the website.
If you click on the link in the description
below the video you'll get all the quantities
for the cake and the Simple syrup and everything.
The purpose for the simple syrup is it keeps
the cake moist.
Often if you have an ice cake, it can come
out quite dry, but by adding some simple syrup,
which you can flavour how you like, it helps
keep the cake moist and it doesn't make the
cake soggy at all.
Put a layer of butter cream.
Again the butter cream recipe is also on the
website, just link in the description below
this video.
Then spread it.
It doesn't matter if it's overlapping on the
outside because we're going to put a layer
of butter cream on the outside.
We don't want too much overlapping into the
middle, because that's just going to be wasted.
On your next layer, just repeat what we've
already done.
So another squirt of your simple syrup, then
add your butter cream, spread it out and repeat
this, all the way, with all your layers, up
to the top.
And you're just doing the same thing.
As I said, don't worry about butter cream
sticking out on the outside edge.
Because we're gonna use that to help cover
the outside of the cake anyway.
And it's easier if you've actually got it
overlapping to the outside because then you
don't have lots of gaps and holes that you
need to fill.
So there's our final layer.
Then using a large knife or spatular if you've
got one, spread out that butter cream that
we had overlapping.
If you need to get extra, just get some extra
out of the bowl and spread that around.
So we're trying to get a really thin, what's
called a "crumb coat" over the whole cake.
And the purpose for that with this cake, is
it's gonna help us when we're piping on pretty
frills, to not get crumbs in our icing.
And also it'll help the icing stick to the
cake.
Now take your doll, put its hair up, and wrap
the body in plastic wrap to protect it.
Then take a zip-lock bag and make a cut as
shown.
Just a small cut, not too big.
And then take the very tip off your bag, just
a tiny bit, not a lot for taking that off.
And you want to do that twice cause we want
two bags, one for white butter cream and one
for our pink.
I'll just show you on an envelope in case
you couldn't see that.
Make a small cut into the bag.
And take the very tip off the end.
Then fill your bag with your butter cream
and put one layer of white butter cream around
the bottom.
Then this is your pink.
Just showing you the direction that you hold
the bag.
And put a, just above the white layer, just
overlaping slightly.
Go around, just slightly going in and out
with your pink icing.
And continue to do that all the way around.
To make it easy to turn, if you put the base
on a bowl, you can then get your hand underneath
to turn easily.
Now you've got a few choices of bodice types.
For this particular one, bend your dolls legs
and pop the doll into the cake.
Then get a zip-lock bag.
Make a very small cut off the corner and a
small cut in.
Start with your straps, over the shoulder
and around the back.
This is your classic sort of bodice that you
see on these cakes.
I have given you a couple more options of
different ones after this, if you prefer a
different sort of a style.
So follow around the line of the top of the
dress with your butter cream, giving a line.
And then just do little spots of butter cream.
Just push it in, give a little squeeze, and
pull back and move along.
Repeat this all over the the whole bodice.
And you've got your classic butter cream bodice
for your cake.
Then take your bag that you had your frill
butter cream in, and just put a frill the
whole way around to fill any gap between the
doll and the cake and finish it off.
And then finally, we'll take some silver decorations
and just pop those at the neck line of the
cake.
And that's one bodice option.
Your other option, you need to do this before
you put the doll into the cake.
Just make an outline of your dress, and some
stripes going downwards.
Make it go further down the body than you
think you need, so that way you don't have
to come back and top it up if you've missed
some.
All the way around.
Then what we're going to do is, hold the doll
over a bowl, and cover it in sprinkles of
your choice.
I've used pink here, but you can use multi-coloured
or whatever you'd like.
Shake off any excess, do the back and the
sides.
And then take your butter cream again, and
fill in the holes that you left the lines.
So it gives us a striped bodice effect to
your cake.
Which can look pretty.
It give a bit of variation to it.
Once you've finished doing that, again bend
the doll's legs to get it to the right height.
And because you've already covered the body,
you hold it by the head, and push it in.
And then do the frill around the top.
The last one, which is my favourite one.
Again do your outline, going around the doll.
Then placing it over a bowl, using some white,
longer style spinkles, so it looks a bit like
white fur, cover over the icing that you've
already done, and shake off any excess.
And then take your butter cream, and just
following straight down, doing lines all the
way down, finish off your bodice, and do that
all the way round and on the other side.
And then put your doll into your cake, and
do the frill around to finish any gap.
I've also done a tutorial on how to do a princess
doll using fondant which you can click on,
or the easy butter cream rose cupcakes for
you there as well.
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