For Best Results Put The Butter

For best results put the butter, oil and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat for 3 minutes on high speed until pale and fluffy. Add all of the remaining ingredients at once and beat on low speed for 1 minute only so it is just combined. Just over half fill a 20cm (7.87 inches) round cake tin and spread mixture over to the sides so dips slightly in centre. Pour remaining mixture into an ovenproof mixing bowl, mine was 20cm (7.87 inches) diameter at the top of the bowl. Bake in moderate oven until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Heat sugar and water stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, allow to cool completely and put into squeezy bottle. Turn your cakes out of their baking dishes and allow to cool completely (warm cakes will melt the buttercream). To shape the bowl cake place it flat side down and then slice off the bulging round bits at the top edge so that it looks more like flowing hooped skirt and not a bowl. Hooped skirts are tailored in towards the waistline. Cut this cake into 3 layers - that is make two cuts through the cake. Take your other cake and cut into two layers. Then take a round cookie cutter and cut a circle out of the centre of all of these cake layers.

To construct the cake, first brush each layer with syrup before you place buttercream between the layers and stack. Make a very thin ‘crumb coat’ of buttercream on the outside of the cake and place it in the fridge to harden - this will help the piped buttercream to stick to your cake. Do not worry too much if it is not perfectly smooth or beautiful looking just do your best. Place in the fridge to firm up. Cut your ziplock bag in the way shown in the video above and fill one bag with pink and the other with plain buttercream. Using the plain buttercream pipe a ruffle around the base of the cake.

Then taking the pink buttercream and starting just above the line you just did pipe a pink ruffle around the cake. Repeat up to the top of the cake. Take your doll and make the hair how you want it to be - this is easier to do while you can hold the doll rather than when it is covered in icing. If you are having the hair down then you may like to loosely put it up while you are icing. Surround the legs of the doll in plastic wrap. Choose which bodice style you prefer and pipe the buttercream onto the body of the doll (see video for demonstration) allowing it to come lower than you need. Then holding the doll by the head place it into the center of the cake - bending the legs slightly if it needs to sit lower in the cake.



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