Make a strawberry, heart shaped doll cake...

This doll's strawberry, heart-shaped cake has faux,
edible lace for decoration.

       Heart-shaped cakes don't always need to be make for Valentine's Day. This doll is celebrating her birthday with a lovely chocolate cake topped with ruby red strawberries. She can't wait to share it with all of her doll and teddy bear friends! 

Left, is the unpainted doll cake. Right, the strawberries
 and cake walls have been painted.

 

Supply List:

• scrap cardboard
• masking tape
• hot glue and hot glue gun
• Sculpey
• brown and red acrylic paints
• Mod Podge
• white school glue
• dark brown felt
• scrap white laces
• 1-2 recycled toilet paper roles

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Cut the size and shape of a heart, twice, that you would prefer for your doll's cake from a piece of scratch cardboard.
2. Cut a recycled toilet paper roll once, lengthwise. This cardboard will become the walls of the cake. Toilet paper roles are very easy to shape to the outer edges of cardboard shapes and this is why I use them instead of stiffer cardboard. You will not need the cake to be as long as a standard cardboard toilet roll. Cut this one down to approx. two inches.
3. Use masking paper and white glue to hold the shape of the cake walls in place about the circumference of one of the heart shapes.
4. Next, glue and tape on the second heart on the opposite end of the cake. When you are done; you should have a cardboard tube shaped like a heart.
5. Mask the entire surface.
6. Using Sculpey or your favorite air dry clay, make enough strawberry shaped fruits to top of the heart shaped cake. See photo below. 
7. Let these clay strawberries harden or bake them in the oven, if these are made with oven-bake clay.
8. Glue the strawberries to the top of the cake.
9. Paint the strawberries red.
10. Paint the cake sides a deep, chocolate brown color.
11. Cut the brown felt to fit the bottom of the cake and glue it on.
12. Now hot glue white scraps of lace to the outer sides of the cake making a pattern. The dramatic color contrast between the lace and the cake color makes this doll cake stand-out from all the rest!

Left, the strawberry pattern seen from above is shaped like a
 heart. Right, the lace glued to the surface mimics edible
lace often used in decorating fancy cakes!

Susie is only 2 years old and she can bake

 a chocolate cake! Kids can do so much if

they just try...

Visit dolls, Mariah and Billy to see what their

cooking in the kitchen!