Daenerys Targaryen Doll Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 cake, mixes plus required ingredients (16 ounces each)
    48 ounces fondant, in blue white and mustard
    35 ounces classic buttercream frosting for the icing
    gold luster dust
    1 recipe white royal icing
Preparation
    Bake two 16 oz cake recipes in a Wiltons doll cake pan.
    Remove the cakes from the pan and slice the cake into three equal layers.
    Stack the cakes with buttercream in between each layer.
    Crumb coat the entire cake.
    Smooth out icing with an offset spatula.
    Cut a hole into the top layer of cake big enough to fit a Barbie doll's legs.
    Cover the doll cake in a 14in circle of white fondant.
    Enhance the folds at the bottom of the cake.
    Place your doll in the middle of the cake.
    Cover the waste of the doll with pink fondant.
    Blend the fondant around the doll's waist into the rest of the cake.
    Cover the left side of the cake with a panel of blue fondant leaving the front of the cake exposed at a 45-degree angle.
    Add folds to the bottom of the cake.
    Use a sculpting tool to add texture to the blue panel.
    Use a small fondant roller to add large indentations to the exposed white fondant.
    Roll out more white fondant.
    Cut out a petal shape with a fondant petal cutter.
    Place the petal onto an impression mold to add texture.
    Repeat this process to create 35 - 40 petals.
    Add the petals to the exposed white fondant at a 45-degree angle.
    Starting at the bottom of the dress, layer the petal and work your way to the waist of the doll.
    Wrap the dolls arms in rectangles of blue fondant.
    Create a coat by wrapping and overlapping two rectangles of fondant around the doll's chest.
    Cutout and add texture to a small triangle of fondant.
    Place the triangle on top of the doll's shoulder to create a shoulder pad.
    With a mustard colored fondant cutout a long triangle.
    Divide the triangle into 5 separate pieces.
    Add a border to each piece.
    Paint gold luster dust onto each piece.
    Overlap the triangle onto the edge of the blue fondant.
    Add a smaller triangle of gold fondant to create a shoulder pad for the other shoulder.
    Using royal icing and a Wilton round tip to pipe out two borders to give the dress detail.
    Add detail to the top of the dress using a piping bag and a round tip.
    Paint gold luster dust on the the petals on the side of the dress.

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