{"id":2270,"date":"2012-08-05T20:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2017-07-21T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T00:57:00","slug":"how-to-make-a-princess-cake-using-fondant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/how-to-make-a-princess-cake-using-fondant\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make a Princess Cake Using Fondant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\" align=\"center\">\n<h2 class=\"fn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/homemade-princess-doll-cake-550x410.jpg\" alt=\"princess cake tutorial video how to\" width=\"550\" height=\"410\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"fn\">How to make a princess cake &#8211; Step 1<\/h2>\n<p>Make your cakes and gather what you need<\/p>\n<p><strong>You will need:<\/strong><br \/>\nA round and a bowl shaped cake &#8211; see recipe at end of post<br \/>\n1 quantity of buttercream &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"Buttercream Cupcake Frosting Recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/buttercream-cupcake-frosting-recipes\/\">see buttercream recipes here<\/a><br \/>\nDoll to go inside you cake &#8211; or you can make your own out of fondant. The video below shows you how to make a fondant face. \u00a0Lots of people seemed to be having trouble finding the reusable food grade molding gel, you can get it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/MlZg75\" target=\"_blank\">Food grade reusable mold making material<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wyjwY_DzFaE\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cake board or cake stand to put the cake on<br \/>\nLarge serrated knife to cut the layers<br \/>\nSimple syrup &#8211;\u00a0see recipe at end of post<br \/>\nFondant and red gel colour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/sugar-paste-fondant-cake-decorations\/\">FONDANT RECIPE CAN BE FOUND HERE<\/a> or you can purchase it ready made<br \/>\nRoyal Icing &#8211; <a title=\"Gingerbread House Recipe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/gingerbread-houses\/\">see royal icing recipe here<\/a><br \/>\nsilver cachous (edible little silver balls)<br \/>\nflower cutter or small round lid or icing tip that you can use for cutting a circle<br \/>\nfine paint brush<br \/>\nbaking paper<br \/>\nrolling pin<br \/>\nplastic wrap<br \/>\nsmall circle cookie cutter &#8211; you can use a knife to cut a circle if you do not have one<\/p>\n<h2>How to make a princess cake Step 2:<\/h2>\n<h2><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 21.125px; margin-top: 0.4em;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sfiOcsCe4Mo\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Vanilla Cake Recipe <\/strong><br \/>\n(you need to double this recipe to make the princess cake. If making cupcakes this recipe makes twenty)<\/p>\n<p>20mL (0.68 fluid ounces) or 2 Tbsp oil<br \/>\n120g (4.23 ounces) or 1\/2 cup plus 1 Tbsp margarine or butter<br \/>\n1 1\/2 cups or 324g (11.43 ounces) sugar (caster or super fine)<br \/>\n2 1\/4 cups or 360g (12.7 ounces) plain or all purpose flour<br \/>\n3 1\/2 tsp baking powder<br \/>\n1 tsp salt<br \/>\n1 1\/4 cups or 313mL (10.58 fluid ounces) milk (4% fat)<br \/>\n1 Tbsp vanilla essence<br \/>\n3 large eggs<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 180C (356 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">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. \u00a0Just over half fill a 20cm (7.87 inches) round cake tin and spread mixture over to the sides so it dips slightly in centre. \u00a0Pour remaining mixture into an 2L (0.53 gallons) ovenproof mixing bowl. \u00a0 Bake in moderate oven until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. \u00a0Tip: For the mixing bowl cake: once it looks done &#8211; but when you insert the skewer it is still gooey &#8211; move it to the bottom shelf and place an empty baking tray on the top shelf to allow it to keep cooking without the top burning.<\/p>\n<p>Turn your cakes out of their baking dishes and allow to cool completely (warm cakes will melt the buttercream).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align center size-medium wp-image-5178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"princess doll cake tutorial\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-550x736.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-400x536.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buttercream<\/strong> <a title=\"Buttercream Cupcake Frosting Recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/buttercream-cupcake-frosting-recipes\/\">recipes for various flavors of buttercream area available on the buttercream post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple syrup recipe<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">100g (3.53 ounces) or 1\/3 cup plus 2 Tbsp sugar (caster or super fine)<br \/>\n100 millilitres (3.38 fluid ounces) or 1\/3 cup plus 1 Tbsp water<br \/>\nOptional \u2013 1 Tbsp vanilla<br \/>\nHeat sugar and water stirring until sugar is dissolved. \u00a0Continue to heat until makes a syrup (approx 104\u00baC or\u00a0220\u00baF).<br \/>\nRemove from heat, allow to cool completely and put into squeezy bottle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Assembling the Princess Cake<\/strong><br \/>\nTo 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. \u00a0Hooped skirts are tailored in towards the waistline.<\/p>\n<p>Cut this cake into 3 layers &#8211; that is make two cuts through the cake. Split the bottom layer round cake into two layers. Then take a round cookie cutter and cut a circle out of the centre of all of these cake layers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To construct the cake, first brush each layer with syrup using a pastry brush, then place buttercream between the layers and stack. Make a very thin &#8216;crumb coat&#8217; of buttercream on the outside of the cake and place it in the fridge to harden &#8211; this helps to stop crumbs mixing through the icing which makes it hard to get a smooth finish. Then apply a slightly thicker layer of buttercream and use a strip of baking paper to smooth &#8211; stretch it out firmly and drag it up the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Place in the fridge to firm.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/homemade-princess-cake-recipe-550x410.jpg\" alt=\"princess cake tutorial video\" width=\"550\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/homemade-princess-cake-recipe-550x410.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/homemade-princess-cake-recipe-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/homemade-princess-cake-recipe-60x44.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/homemade-princess-cake-recipe-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roll out a strip of white fondant and wrap around the base of the cake creating creases and ruffles as you do.<\/p>\n<p>Roll out the pink fondant into a rectangle and wrap around the cake. Making a rectangle helps you to get the fabric gathered look at the waist of the cake. \u00a0If you roll your fondant into a circle and place it over the cake it results in a skirt that is smooth at the top and ruffled only at the bottom which is not how fabric on these skirts fall. Around the base of the cake at even intervals push up the pink fondant to create a swagged look.<\/p>\n<p>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 you can&#8217;t hold it because it is iced. \u00a0If you are having the hair down then you may like to loosely put it up while you are icing. \u00a0Surround the legs of the doll in plastic wrap.<\/p>\n<p>Cover the body of the doll in pink fondant and then using a knife shape the top of the bodice. Place the doll into the cake &#8211; bending the legs slightly if it needs to sit lower in the cake. Roll out some white fondant and cut it into a circle. Using the base of an icing tip or small round cutter cut a scalloped pattern around the edge of the circle. Cut a small circle out of the centre of this and then split one side and place around the waist of the doll, cutting off any excess.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7923-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"princess cake how to\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7923-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7923-550x410.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7923-60x44.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7923-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Using either a flower cutter or the technique shown in the video make fondant flowers, place a silver cachous in the centre. \u00a0You will need one for the waist and one for each swag on the skirt, make a couple of extra just in case you break one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7877-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"cake decorating video princess\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7877-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7877-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7877-550x736.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7877-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7877-400x536.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7877.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Place your royal icing in a ziplock bag (<a title=\"Gingerbread House Recipe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/gingerbread-houses\/\">royal icing recipe here<\/a>), cut off a tiny corner and pipe details onto the cake. \u00a0If you want to do rows of dots like shown pipe three dots down then two dots next to it in line with the spaces, then another three&#8230; when you reach a swag pipe a few more dots going up the dress. \u00a0 \u00a0Attach the flowers using the royal icing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"princess doll cake tutorial\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-550x736.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake-400x536.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/how-to-make-a-princess-doll-cake.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buttercream<\/strong> <a title=\"Buttercream Cupcake Frosting Recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/buttercream-cupcake-frosting-recipes\/\">recipes for various flavours of buttercream are available on the buttercream post.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"review hreview-aggregate\"><span class=\"rating\"><span class=\"average\" style=\"display: none;\">4.5<\/span><span class=\"votes\" style=\"display: none;\">352<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"updated\">2013<\/h5>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/how-to-make-a-princess-cake-using-fondant\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7901-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"princess cake\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7901-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7901-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7901-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_7901-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"2870\" \/><\/a><p>How to make a princess cake &#8211; Step 1 Make your cakes and gather what you need You will need: A round and a bowl shaped cake &#8211; see recipe at end of post 1 quantity of buttercream &#8211;\u00a0see buttercream recipes here Doll to go inside you cake &#8211; or you can make your own out of fondant. The video below shows you how to make a fondant face. \u00a0Lots of people seemed to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,1652,748],"tags":[173,31,802,1038,803,1021,1032,1037,1035,1039,1040,1041,985,983,952,1031,991,1030,163,988,174,1036,1034,1033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56749,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/56749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}