The Official Barbie Cake Story

I started the cake and the frosting Thursday night. I worked really hard to make sure the frosting was perfect consistency. Not too runny and not to0 thick. I stored them overnight so I could finish after work the next day.
It was really hot and the apartment was even hotter. So I had the A/C and the fan running to keep the temp down. But the frosting still melted as I worked on the cake. I would refrigerated in between steps to keep it together. But once I added the Barbie the pieces stopped sliding off.
After the crumb coat I refrigerated before adding a second coat to hid the crumbs but that didn't work. So when I started to decorate the dress crumbs were showing through and and front was melting sooo bad. I fixed the crumb problem by adding small flowers all around the dress and to distract the attention I used white for the centers so that your eye is drawn to the flowers not the crumbs.


I added Wings to make the Barbie look more desirable for little girls. I made them out of foil and blue plastic wrap. It was a nice touch but the front was still really bad looking because of the heat and it was pretty cool in the apartment by this point. So with my ingenious mind I decided to turn the Barbie 180* at the hip so that the more beautifully looking back was now the front. (the picture below is before I turned it around)

So I was pretty proud at this point and it looked really good. UNTIL I HAD TO TRANSPORT IT!!!
The car was not fully air conditioned so in the 15 minutes it took to get to the church the bottom half of her dress had melted down an inch. I refused to take any pictures of the cake at this point I even refused to look at it. It was still the eye of every little girl in the room. Emma was so proud to say that it was HER cousin that made it. The night went on and the dress had still continued to digress. My cake was one of the last ones to go up and by the time they started the bidding her dress had melted down 2 inches. There were to bidders and both the fathers had families of ALL girls. 25... 35... 50... 100!... 101! SOLD! Sold for $101 to a very happy family of girls. It turns out it was a record for the cake auction.
Next year it will be in the winter time and I will make 2 cakes. And they will definitely not melt.