Little girls love Cinderella; she is the epitome of princess style and grace. Celebrate a birthday with your little Cinderella fan by making a Cinderella cake that she will adore. Using some simple ideas and creative construction, you can build a cake that is worthy of any princess. Does this Spark an idea?
Cinderella's Cake Dress
One way to bake a Cinderella cake is to make Cinderella into the cake. In this case, you should make a dome-shaped birthday cake using a bundt pan or something similar. The cake can be any flavor your little princess desires.
Cut a portion off a paper towel roll and stick it inside the Bundt cake hole; use this to hold a Cinderella doll in place. The goal here is to get the doll's waist to line up with the top of the cake, so you should cut the tube to be as tall or short as needed for her to stand at the correct height.
You will now combine the cake and the doll using icing. Use blue icing to match Cinderella's dress and ice your cake, so that it becomes an extension of the doll; the cake is now her skirt, and her head and torso stick out on top. Add sparkly sprinkles or white icing around the edges for trim.
Castle Cake
You can build a cake castle in a similar fashion to the way you would build a sand castle. Start with some basic sheet cakes; bake three of them. Layer two for the base of your castle, and cut the third into two smaller squares to make castle tops (you're kind of making a Mayan pyramid-style cake now). Frost the whole cake, and then add ice cream cones for towers; you can paint icing around these to match the cake as well. Use candies in your cake colors to decorate, and you can even get a little image of Cinderella to stick in one of the windows.
Paint a Cake Scene
You can also go with a traditional rectangular cake and decorate it with a movie scene. Use Cinderella figurines (possibly with her mice friends or her prince) to add interest. Paint the cake blue and green to make an outdoor background, and add a circle of light blue icing for her pumpkin carriage. Add darker blue piping icing to make the wheels and details.
For an even simpler idea, purchase a Cinderella tiara and wand at your local toy store. Ice your cake with white frosting and pink and blue roses, and then place the crown and wand on top. Your little lady can keep the accessories after she blows out the candles (and washes the icing off them).
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