Additional Ingredients

For the decoration:

	1 barbie doll, legs removed
175 grams	Apricot Jam
2 tbsp	Water
	Icing Sugar (Silver Spoon Homegrown)
350 grams	pink sugar paste
110 grams	white sugar paste
	Coloured Choco Beans (Silver Spoon Create)
	pink sugar hearts
	white sugar hearts
	pink sugar flowers
	white sugar flowers
120 grams	white piping icing
	pink sparkling sugar
	paper parsol

How to make Barbie Cake

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1. For the cake: Heat the oven to 160°C,325°F, gas 3. Grease a 900 ml/1 1/2 pint pudding basin.
2. Beat the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl until soft and light. Gradually beat in the eggs.
3. Sift in the flour and cornflour and stir in lightly. Gently stir in the ground almonds.
4. Spoon into the pudding basin and bake for 1-1 1/2 hours until firm and golden. Turn out and cool on a wire rack.
5. For the decoration: gently place the barbie doll head and body into the centre top of the cake.
6. Heat the jam and water in a small pan until the jam has melted. Rub through a sieve and return to the pan. Boil for 1 minute and leave to cool.
7. Roll out the pink sugarpaste on a surface dusted with icing sugar, into a circle to fit generously over the cake.
8. Brush the cake with most of the apricot glaze and place the pink sugar paste on the cake. Smooth the sugarpaste with your hands, forming pleats and frills, as in the photo.
9. Roll out the white sugar paste on a surface dusted with icing sugar and cut 8-9 triangles to form the top of the skirt. Dampen the triangles with a little water and attach to the top of the cake.
10. Attach the chocolate beans to the \'skirt\' with a dab of apricot glaze and attach sugar hearts to the centre of the beans and around the base of the skirt.
11. Place the sugar flowers around the base of the barbie doll body and at the tip of the white sugarpaste triangles.
12. Pipe loops of white piping icing between the chocolate beans and attach sugar hearts before the icing sets.
13. Sprinkle pink sparkling sugar on the sugar paste triangles and at the base of the skirt. Add the parasol to the cake.

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