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Scattered but Resourceful

April 11, 2014 By Dana White | 12 Comments

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I may not think ahead far enough to check the instructions before I go to the store to get the ingredients to make a skirt-shaped cake for my daughter’s birthday . . . but I’m creative.

Frozen Doll Cake at ASlobComesClean.com

Creative enough to solve the oh-I-need-to-make-two-so-I-can-add-enough-length-to-the-skirt problem I faced last weekend:

Making the Skirt Cake Long Enough at ASlobComesClean.com

What’s easier? Have Hubby run out for 2 cake donuts in the morning, or run to the store at 10 p.m. and then bake another cake?

The donuts are easier. I promise.

Note to self: Photos taken from slightly above make anyone (even a donut-skirted princess from Frozen) look less hip-py.

Instructions for this cake.

 

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  1. Shoeaholicnomore says

    April 11, 2014 at 11:05 am

    This is hilarious! I’ve never made any special cakes, but I always thought skirt cakes were interesting. Thanks for sharing your dilemma 🙂

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    • LWhite says

      April 11, 2014 at 4:18 pm

      I used a Bundt pan and cut the legs off at the knee on a cheap Barbie doll for a friends daughter’s 5th birthday
      https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/t1.0-9/1512834_784816184881546_4561452245780310069_n.jpg

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  2. Krysten says

    April 11, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    You are an awesome Mom!

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  3. marion says

    April 11, 2014 at 5:17 pm

    You win the award for most creative! I would have never thought of that. Kudos!

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  4. Angel says

    April 11, 2014 at 10:45 pm

    Haha! This happened to me and I ended up popping the legs off the Barbie! Not a stellar idea, but what are ya gonna do, right?

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    • Dana White says

      April 13, 2014 at 8:24 pm

      That’s a great idea!!

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  5. Kristy K. James says

    April 12, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    Very nice job…and smart thinking on the donuts! I’ve made a couple of those – always with two mixes, and have had to throw away a bunch of cake. What a waste, so if I ever have to do another, I’ll keep this…and cutting the legs off a cheap fashion doll in mind. Happy belated Birthday to your daughter! 😀

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  6. Danielle B says

    April 12, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    This is soooo cute!!

    For future reference, you can make frosting without shortening. Blech

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  7. Sara says

    August 28, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    Love this!! Last year, I set the skirt cake on top of my upside down bundt pan to give the barbie’s legs extra room. It worked great! I’m making the Anna skirt cake tomorrow for my second daughter’s 4th birthday. Her request. 🙂

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  8. Christine says

    August 29, 2014 at 12:05 am

    When I do our doll cakes, I do bake two mixes, but do one of them as two round cakes, stacked with frosting, and then the shaped one on top. Much less cake wasted, and it will hold an entire doll. I love your fill in though, and maybe next time I’ll just get a dozen donuts and mash them together into a cake. It’d sure taste good!

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  9. AnnB says

    November 25, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    I stopped using cake mixes decades ago. They would too often get buggy before I used them and for me don’t taste as good as scratch.
    I found a long time ago it is just as easy to mix up a cake from flour, sugar, salt, eggs, butter, baking powder in about the same time as opening a box where you have to add the eggs and butter/fat anyway.
    I live too far to just pop into a store.

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  10. AnnB says

    November 25, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    Oh yes, and vanilla or other flavoring.

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