Princess Cake

by Marlene Witter
(Uitenhage, South Africa)

Princess Cake

to make this Princess Cake, I used my ring cake pan for the dress and a small pyrex mixing bowl to bake the top part of the dress in.

Royal icing is very easy to make:
1 lt icing sugar
15 ml gycerine
2 egg whites
5 ml lemon juice

Mix and stand for few hours after covering it with cling wrap to avoid hardening.

I set some white icing aside before mixing blue and red cake colouring in the rest of the icing to create the two-toned dress.

The dolly was a cheapy one bought at PEP Stores (only R6,99!)

As a craft activity at this Royal party we decorated the princesses with hats and princes with crowns.

Coned-shaped hats with an old netting curtain cut in strips decorated the girls' heads. Crowns cut out of gold aluminium crepe paper adorned the boys heads. (8cm of crepe paper made 8 hats) ... If you cut it correctly there shouldn't be any wasted paper. The motif for the one crown formed the negative of the other crown.

Jelly cup "Goblets" were made from 2 icecream cones then I cut the bottoms off each and stuck them into each other, 'glued' it to a Mary biscuit with a marshmallow and to the plastic mini cups with purple jelly and fruit salad. The white chock stics in it were also a great hit!

Another party game included a 'Kiss the Frog' by pasting cut-out cardboard lips on cardboard frog (Similar to pin the donkey's tail), causing great excitment and laughter!