Frozen's Elsa Cake

My niece turned 6 in January. She’s been a Frozen fanatic and she’ll have Frozen-themed birthday party :). That’s when I was commissioned to make Elsa cake. It would be my first doll cake and I was psyched! Her dad got me the doll of choice. As I see it, the most important thing for this cake was the curvature of the cake skirt. It had to be the right size and ballooned at the right place so it doesn’t look droopy and what not. And I had to make enough cake to make up the height for her super long legs. Her waist to her toe measured 7.5”!!

In order to meet that, I made two 8”x1.5” rounds and one 5 Qt bowl. With frosting layers, it should make up the height. After all the baking was done, here were the steps to assemble Elsa (besides whipping up white & frosty blue buttercream):

1. I made a hole at the center of all the cakes. I had a circle cutter just big enough to fit her butt, perfect. 
2. Stack the cakes in this order, from bottom to top: 8” round, buttercream, 8” round, buttercream, and dome from 5qt bowl.
3. Crumb coat with thin layer of buttercream.
4. Let the construction chill in fridge for 15min or so.
5. Apply the buttercream layer. Smooth it with spatula dipped in hot water.
6. Remove the skirt and wrap the legs with platic. Also, keep her arms and cape raised up so they don’t get in a way of the frosting.
7. Insert Elsa into the cake dress.

      After adding snowflakes and frills all around, there you have it! The real pay-off was the note of my niece loving it! So so so glad! Happy birthday E ♥!!