How To Make A Disney Princess Cake

Instead of buying an expensive Disney princess cake, you can make your own at home! It’s so easy and doesn’t take any more time than a regular birthday cake. Dress up Ariel, Cinderella, Tiana, Aurora, Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel or any other Disney princess these easy techniques. Use your favorite piping tips to create your own dress design. Be creative! Your little princess will love it!

What You Need for a Disney Princess Cake

Disney princess Barbie doll Box cake mix, prepared You can also use our homemade cake mix recipe if you don’t want to use store-bought. This easy recipe just uses cake flour (or all purpose flour), sugar, baking powder, salt, and shortening. Add eggs, milk, and butter to the mixture to make your cake batter. Buttercream frosting 8″ baking pans Oven-safe, dome-shaped mixing bowl Stand mixer or hand mixer

How to Make the Cake Skirt/Dress

What Frosting is Best?

I love using our homemade buttercream frosting or fondant when I am decorating cakes with beautiful detail like these princess cakes. Fondant is great to get the smooth, flowy look. Buttercream frosting holds its shape well and it is easy to pipe so you can do all kinds of fun designs for your Disney princess cake. You will want about 6-7 cups of frosting to cover your cake if you are wanting to pipe the entire cake. This allows for some extra for dividing and color mixing.

How to Decorate a Princess Cake

Tips for Decorating

Clip up the doll’s hair or any accessories while decorating. Use a cake plate or lazy Susan when decorating. This will make it easier to turn while piping. Separate your frosting into bowls, color with food coloring, then cover with a damp cloth until ready to use so the frosting doesn’t dry out. Practice piping on wax paper until you get comfortable creating your designs. Here is a great post on some simple piping techniques to try. Use gel food coloring from the craft store. These types of food coloring are far superior to the water food coloring at the grocery story. You will get brighter colors and the perfect tint to match your princess. If you find your buttercream frosting is too thin, add powdered sugar a little at a time. Get creative with decorations! You can use sprinkles or any shape or size, piping gels, or any other fun sugary ingredients you can find. You can also use fresh raspberries but make sure they are very dry so they don’t bleed onto your cake.

Disney Elsa Cake

For the Elsa Barbie doll birthday cake we used a Barbie that had a painted on body and a skirt (instead of a full dress). This made it super easy to decorate. We mixed Sky Blue and Lavender food coloring to get the right colors. We kept adding color a drop at a time until it matched Elsa’s bodice colors. For the skirt, we did 2 colors. The top color was more heavy on the blue and the bottom was heavier on the lavender color. To get the “hombre” look, we filled one pastry bag with the blue, another one with the purple and then put BOTH bags (no tips in either bag) in one bag with the star tip. That way the two colors combined without mixing too much. It gave it more of a swirled look. We used a star tip to make the “swirls” and alternated the direction of each swirl to give it more interest. You could also probably do rosettes and it would look beautiful. We finished off the look with pearl sprinkles and sparkly snowflake foam stickers (of course, we removed the stickers before eating).

Disney Rapunzel Cake

For the Rapunzel cake, we mostly piped little flowers using a small star tip. We used a flat tip for the ribbon on the front of the dress and a larger star tip for the “shell” looking border along the bottom. Read Next: 33+ Easy Dessert Ideas