Our dolls make these red, white and blue patriotic cakes to display in their doll bakery on the following holidays: Independence Day/4th of July, Memorial Day, President's Day, Labor Day, and Veterans Day.
Other countries that have red, white and blue colors in their national flags include: France, Great Britain, Norway, Chile, Iceland, and the Philippines just to name a few. So perhaps children from those countries would like to make cakes similar to these for their doll bakeries, after trading our flags for their own, of course!
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| Red, White and Blue cakes for your doll's bakery or picnic. Above are two versions of stacked cakes and below is a sheet cake representing a United States flag. If you live in a different country, your dolls might like a cake with an alternate design representing the place where they live with you! Cake baking supply shops will probably carry tiny flags representing your own country if you need to search for these... |
Supplies Needed for Patriotic Cake Crafts:
- scrap cardboard
- cardboard tubes
- white school glue
- hot glue gun and glue
- tiny flags from your own country
- brade and lace trims
- fluffy white fabric scraps
- jelly lids with colorful prints (ours are red, white and blue checks)
- puffy paints in your own country's flag colors
- Sculpey
- acrylic paints in your country's flag colors
- Styrofoam beads
- mini clay shapes (ours are of strawberry halves and blue stars, optional)
- masking tape
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- When making doll cakes in the round with stacked tiers, make sure to trace around each cake tube shape to make a top to close the cake and also to trace about for the shape of the masking tape to stick in the center of the decorative recycled cap. The hot glue will adhere the cardboard tube to the tin lids better if it is sticking two rough, paper surfaces to each other.
- Cover the cake tube shape or the sheet cake shape entirely with masking tape to give your doll's toy baked goods more durability.
- The sheet cake is made of identical shaped sizes of cardboard stacked and glued together with white school glue. Although, white glue takes longer to dry, it is stronger and neater to work with than hot glue. I really only work with hot glue when it is necessary.
- The American flag design on the sheet cakes uses precut and shaped strawberries and stars. I purchased these online long ago. The icing on this cake is of fluffy white fur fabric and this was applied with hot glue.
- If you make this flag cake, put a layer of Mod Podge on the top to help preserve the decorations.
- Recycled jelly lids in plaid were turned upside down and used as platters for the tiered cakes.
- Use acrylic paints to decorate the trims and make them patriotic colors.
- The blueberry topping on the left cake with flags was made using Styrofoam beads. These may be purchased at a dollar store and painted blue. When gluing these to any surface only use white school glue or these beads will melt!
- The "rippled" icing effect on the right cake was crafted using corrugated cardboard and three colors of paint: red, white and blue.
- It's icing "drips" are made using white puff paint for this type of faux icing.
- I sculpted tiny strawberries and wafers from Sculpey for the top cake decoration and then hot glued these to the top.
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