Rapunzel, Rapunzel, baked in a cake . . .

The doll inside the cake was a proper Rapunzel doll so it had lovely long hair. I thought about leaving it down but it obscured a lot of the cake, so I decided to plait it like in the film. I wanted to add flowers to her hair to make it even more authentic but I didn't want to use icing as I wanted the doll to be usable after the cake was eaten and I didn't want to ruin her hair. I decided on flower stickers as they were simple to use and didn't require any glue.

All of the doll that is covered with cake (from her chest down) I wrapped in cling film so she wouldn't need too much cleaning up after the cake was eaten and her original clothing could be replaced. It's a cake and present in one!

I recently got to make another fun birthday cake for another one of my many relations. This time it was a princess cake with a real doll in the centre. I've wanted to make one of these for ages, mostly because they're just so pretty! This princess cake was to be based on Rapunzel from Disney's Tangled (which in my opinion in vastly underrated and much better than Frozen, although Frozen is still pretty good - but that's a debate for another time).

I had to take some artistic liberties with the dress design as Rapunzel doesn't have a large skirted dress in the style of one of these cakes. I took the basic elements of her dress such as the sleeves, the bodice and the swirly leaf designs and designed a dress around them.

Below is a little video of how she was made. Please try to ignore the massive mess in the background! I'm not really one of those clean-it-up-as-you-go bakers, I'm more of a make-a-whole-lot-of-mess-then-deal-with-it-later kind of baker (much to my Mum's eternal dismay!)

I love everything about this cake but I have to say the bit I'm most proud of is her hair! That's a five stranded plait right there! With five tiny little plaits all mixed in! Plaiting level: Ninja!