Looking for Barbie Cake Ideas? Here you’ll find 16 Beautiful Barbie Cake Ideas perfect for a birthday, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them. Whether you’re simply looking for inspiration or want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a Barbie cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these Barbie cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?
To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.
Adapt your favorite cake recipe.
There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :
- You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
- You could play with the colors of your cake too, with a checkered cake, a colored cake, or a rainbow cake for example.
- You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could personalize your frosting.
Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.
Look for a cake recipe.
Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :
- The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
- Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.
Use my cake recipe recommendation.
Everybody thinks of the color pink when we’re speaking of Barbie. So, I wondered what cake recipe would be more suited to this theme than a pink velvet cake. You should definitely try Sugar Geek Show’s recipe. I recommend swapping the whipped cream for your favorite buttercream recipe or my delicious cream cheese buttercream recipe, as it’s more suited to cake decorating.
What you will love about this pink velvet cake :
- It has the best texture.
- It tastes amazing.
- It perfectly suits the theme.
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect Barbie cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Barbie Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy Barbie cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Disco Barbie Cake.
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
As a beginner cake decorator, the first technique you have to master is how to frost a cake.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake
- Barbie-themed cake toppers.
- Fake flowers.
- Sprinkles.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Place your sprinkles and chill your cake for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Finally, use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake and place your cake toppers and fake flowers.
What you’ve learned :
Once you know how to frost a cake, with the help of cake toppers, you can easily create beautiful cake designs.
Easy Mermaid Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Edible pearls.
- Mermaid Barbie-themed cake toppers.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Place your sprinkles and chill your cake for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Finally, use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake and place your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
You can easily personalize your cake to the image of your personal favorite Barbie.
Electric Pink Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- Open-star piping tip (like the 1M by Wilton) in a piping bag.
- Barbie cake toppers.
- Fake flowers
How to recreate this cake?
- For the cover of the cake. You can refer to the instructions from the previous cake ideas.
- For the buttercream ruffles. Once your buttercream cover has had enough time to set in the fridge, you can recreate the beautiful buttercream ruffles with your piping bag.
- You should practice on parchment paper first. Draw the ruffles by keeping your piping bag at a 90° angle and applying pressure continuously to release the frosting, keeping your hand still. Once you’re satisfied with the height, stop piping. You can watch this buttercream swirl tutorial to get a better understanding.
- Finally, place your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Buttercream ruffles are an easy way to elevate the look of your cakes as a beginner cake decorator.
If you’re looking for more easy and girly cake ideas, check out my other birthday cake ideas for girls.
Barbie Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 9 Barbie cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Pastel Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Delight in the soft hues of this sweet and dreamy Ombré Barbie Cake.
A little guidance
In order to recreate this beautiful ombre effect, apply your light buttercream on the top third of your cake, your darker shade on the bottom third, and your transition color in the middle. Then, use your spatula to blend the demarcation as much as you can. Finally, smooth your cake as usual. If you think your ombre isn’t as blended as you wished, keep blending and smoothing until satisfied.
Malibu Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Bring beachy vibes, tropical hues, and a taste of summer to your celebration with this beautiful Malibu Barbie Cake.
A little guidance
If you’ve never made this type of striped cake before it’s pretty straightforward. Stack each colored buttercream on top of the other using piping bags and smooth it all. You can easily follow this easy striped cake tutorial.
Striped Barbie Cake
Difficulty level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Make a statement at your celebration with this Barbie Striped Cake. Alternating vibrant and pastel pinks, you’ll create an eye-catching cake design.
A little guidance
These are another type of stripes, as you can see they’re much neater. To get such a result, you’ll need to use a cake comb as shown in this striped cake tutorial.
Fault Line Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Embrace the trendy fault line cake trend with this fault line Barbie Cake.
A little guidance
Once your buttercream cover has set in the fridge, simply apply a layer of buttercream around the bottom half of your cake. Then use a cake comb to create the stripes as explained in the previous design.
Printed Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
With its edible metallic accents, and its beautiful pattern, this printed Barbie cake will infuse a touch of glamour into your celebration.
A little guidance
To recreate this buttercream pattern, gently place a stencil on your cake, securing it in place. Then spread a thin layer of buttercream over it using a spatula, and remove the excess with your bench scraper. Carefully lift the stencil to reveal the intricate design on the cake.
Mermaid Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Both you and your guest will dive into a world of enchantment with this beautiful Mermaid Barbie Cake.
A little guidance
You can easily recreate the watercolor effect following this watercolor buttercream tutorial.
Purple Barbie Cake.
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Embrace originality with this Purple Barbie Cake, a perfect fit for a unique Barbie princess.
A little guidance
Sometimes images are worth a million, so if you’d like to recreate this design, you can follow this fondant bow tutorial.
Tiered Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
Elevate your celebration with this tiered Barbie Cake, which will make a show-stopping centerpiece for any special occasion.
A little guidance
When making tiered cakes, you have to pay extra attention to the structure of the cake. Therefore, you should always use a sturdy cake board for each tier. You should also support the bottom tier with dowel rods or bubble tea straws cut to the height of the cake. Finally, you should ensure each tier is leveled before stacking them.
Black And Pink Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 4,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
Add a fashionable twist to your celebration with this cool Black and Pink Barbie Cake.
A little guidance
My three tips when covering a cake in fondant are the following:
- You should pay extra attention when preparing your cake. Make sure it’s leveled, and your buttercream (or ganache) should be very neat to get a cleaner finish.
- You should roll your fondant to a thickness between 1/8th inch and 1/4 inch.
- You should keep in mind that your first attempt probably isn’t going to be flawless, but it’s perfectly fine because practice will make your technique perfect.
Finally, here’s a detailed video tutorial, that’ll teach everything you need to know about the process. You’ll need to adapt it to the shape of your cake.
Barbie Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers
These 4 Barbie cake designs will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Barbie Dress Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
There’s no way I could’ve written a Barbie cake ideas post without including a Barbie dress cake. The shimmery fondant really elevates the design.
Vintage Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Indulge in regal elegance with this vintage-style Barbie cake. If you’re hosting a small party, you can easily turn it into a one-tier cake.
Malibu Barbie Tiered Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
If you’re more of a Malibu Barbie girl, you’re going to love this cake idea.
Princess Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Personally, when I think of Barbie, I also think of princesses. If you do too, you might choose this princess Barbie cake for your Barbie-themed birthday.
Square Barbie Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
It’s giving bold, glittery, and pink, which is basically the perfect Barbie cake, so if that’s what you’re looking for, there’s no need to look anymore.
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