Princess Barbie - Devil's Food Chocolate Cake

The Princess Barbie - Devil's Food Chocolate Cake.
As usual, must be chocolate for birthday cakes...
First its my kids favourite and second you wont go wrong with chocolate..hehe

 So this was my virgin attempt in making barbie doll cake..
where do I learn this?..Youtube ler..hehe..FREE mah!!!
Although, in the videos, they show mostly using fondant and buttercream,
I just adapted  the techniques..and just apply my chocolate ganache to it..

This were the moulds that I used for the cake..
The dolly cake mould was found in 'Spotlight' in Plaza Singapura, came across the mould by chance and straight away grabbed it
without thinking twice although the price was quite dear..
the other aluminuim tray was my normal tray for making my kuih2..
The wilton dolly was from 'Phoon Huat'..murah aje tu..

I made 4 adunan for the dolly mould and 2 adunan for the normal tray..
Used up about 11/2 block of cream cheese
and the full amount for the chocolate ganache..
The normal tray as the base then the dome tray..
Slice the cake twice to get a 3 layer cake. Altogether 4 layers..
Applied cream cheese to each layer one by one..

Once the cream cheese already covered, smoothen it..
place the cake in the fridge for a while to make life easier later on for the chocolate
ganache..

When the cream cheese has slightly harden, 

I quickly pour the chocolate ganache and smoothen it..

Decorated the cake with whatever available..

dont want to use fondant cause the kids dont like fondant cakes..

Dont want to use buttercream cause lazy to mix them heheh..

Slide dolly in the centre of the cake..

Applied the chocolate ganache to dress up the top,

for this one I used my previous chocolate ganache which has already been slightly thicken by itself..

using the squeeze and pull up method for the top...

Throw some gold dragees to give some design..

 Slice some strawberries and touched up with ganache 

mana2 yang patut ler. Stick the dasies candle to blend in..

Cross section of cake that I managed to snap, before distributing the cakes to the

guests..Comments from them.'Yu, cake boleh tahan sedap eh!! boleh order lah macam ni!!'

hahaha...

Oh yes, I must tell you this., a lady saw me carrying the cake when

I was walking towards the entrance of the restaurant, 

cause no box can fit in this tall barbie cake..

she was so,  surprise to see the cake and asked me whether I made it on my own,

I answered her malu2 and said yeslah...Thanking her for the compliments and walked away

to the party room....

Next, few minutes, my mum came to me and said that the lady earlier asked for

my contact number and name, so that she can call me to take order..

My mum told her that I dont take order as I just made the cakes for fun and for the family..

but she said its oklah just give her the number who knows I might one to make for her one day..

..lah..nak marah pun tak boleh, sebab my mum dah kasi my number kat dia...

after hearing the story, some of my in laws, adviced me why not...

well mungkin belum ada seru and confidence kot...