When making a Barbie cake do you have to use the doll pics or can you use the whole Barbie doll? If so how do you get the doll in the cake? A friend at work would like to have one for her daughter's birthday. I have plenty of time to practice as the birthday is months away

I used a whole Skipper once for the flowergirl in a whole bunch of bride and bridesmaids Barbie cakes. No problem. Just carve out the cavity where she's going to be and then fill with buttercream to hold her in place.

Wowza, those are fabulous!!!

Thank you everyone for the info.

Here are instructions that I had copied and saved from another post not too long ago (sorry, I couldn't find the original thread). These instructions were posted by SquirrellyCakes in response to another members question on how to do a doll cake with a full size barbie. HTH.

Barbie Cakes


The Wondermold isn't deep enough on its own for a Barbie cake, so you need an extra layer or two of cake underneath so that Barbie can go inside the cake and the cake starts at her waist. I use petal pans. A 9 inch and sometimes a larger one - up to the 15 inch size. Of course you can do it with the round or even place the Wondermold - on a dowelled sheet cake.
First of all, the top of the extra layer or layers of cake has to be iced. Also fill if you are using more than one layer as your bottom cake that the Wondermold will sit on.

I found a great way of keeping Barbie clean and also coring the cake and keeping her enclosed and stable. An empty paper towel roll - well two actually. You are best off boarding the Wondermold and also using a strong cake base for the whole cake. So you mark the centre of the underneath of the double covered boards that the Wondermold will sit on, I places them covered sides out and glue gun the two together. Then I cut a hole large enough for a paper towel inner tube to fit through the centre. So you work the paper towel cardboard roll straight up through the bottom or underneath side of the boarded Wondermold cake and then remove. This will core your cake. Alternately, you can just fill with icing between the Wondermold cake and the additional layer, no boards and core from the top down. I have found that this works well, undowelled too. It just makes the cakes slices a little more awkward because of the height of them. Ok, so if you boarded the Wondermold, and now you have cored it, you also need to core the layer cake this is sitting on. So you centre a board the same size as the boarded cake on the lower cake and mark off the centre of the lower cake, then core the centre again using the paper towel roll. You will want to put 5 dowels in the centre of the marked area on the lower cake around the cored hole. Place some icing sugar in the area where the Wondermold will sit on the lower cake. So now you place the cored Wondermold cake over the dowelled lower cake and line up the holes. So now you are going to take a fresh paper towel inner cardboard tube. Insert Barbie so that the tube starts at her waist - it is a tight fit - Barbie's hip's will make it a really tight fit. So You check to see if the paper towel roll when inserted with the Barbie, will be too long for the height of your lower cake and the Wondermold combined, and you slice off the correct amount from the bottom of the paper towel roll. Now cover the roll with foil or plastic wrap and reinsert the Barbie up to her waist. If the height of your combined lower levels and the Wondermold, will be much more than the enclosed Barbie in the paper towel roll, then you will want to also place a dowel inside of the enclosed Barbie/roll so that you have a centre dowel that goes though all of the layers to the bottom . Otherwise the Barbie in the roll acts as your centre dowel. So now you are ready to decorate.

I transport these doll cakes using a moving box. I cut the front flap all the way down. Then I completely line the box with foil and tape it well. I line the bottom with that rubbery shelf liner that stops any movement - I get it from the Dollar Store. You can cut off the top flaps if the box is high enough to enclose Barbie or tape them all up in a vertical position. So you tape the front flap back in place. Then I take another piece of foil and tape it in place over the top of the opened box. When delivered, a utility knife is used to cut the front flap that was taped, open.

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Wow! Great... I'm glad you posted this information. I would have been very disappointed if I found out while I was making the cake that Barbie wouldn't fit

Hi Susan,

I like using the pic doll because I use a separator plate.

The regular Barbie dolls are tall so you have to make an extra layer of cake to allow for this or either cut her legs off...ouch

I just use round layers 8-8-7-6 (I think) or what ever similar pan sizes you have. Put together frozen & cut a hole straight down through your layers so she is lightly snug. Trim the top layer or two so that the dress looks right around her hips with a nice full skirt. Do a crumb coat and let it thaw. Ice and decorate as normal...

..just a thought but can't you just snap off the legs before putting it in the cake and then re-attach the legs later? Hope that doesn't sound dumb..I honestly haven't played with a Barbie doll for sometime! LOL!!

It has been a long time since I used a Barbie for the doll cake But I use to take the legs off. I haven't checked lately, but you could twist them off and then but them back on easy. My DD is now 36 so it was awhile ago, but if this is still possible and you don't want the extra cake it works very well.

Susan...I have never used an extra pan underneath the wondermold pan...I just did a mermaid this past weekend. You need to wrap the doll's legs in plastic wrap and make sure your hole it cut wide enough in your cake so the doll can fit. Place her in as far as she will go...you can then start decorating. When I did my doll's dess... I made it kind of thin at the top and then it lookd to have a fuller skirt. You can see it in my photos...it is the barbie that is decorated with a pink dress. Good luck!