Rag Doll and Handbag Cake Decorating and Baking Tutorial

Struggling for time? Why not watch the whole tutorial in 16 mins?

In this lesson, Valerie creates the striped pattern, using white and light blue coloured fondants, which will be applied to the cake board.

Here, Valerie carves the basket out of Madeira cake and smothers it in white chocolate ganache.

In this lesson, Valeria smooths out the white chocolate ganache and applies the white fondant to the Handbag.

Valerie spends this lesson creating the decorative strips that will line the cake. You can either create and add one strip at a time or make them all at once but just make sure they are covered or they will dry out.

Remember those decorative strips we were making? Well, in this lesson, Valerie applies them beautifully to the basket, alternating between plain and decorated; for that extra authentic touch!

Here, Valerie carefully moves the basket onto the striped cake board and continues to delicately paint some intricate flower designs onto it.

In this lesson, Valerie creates the basket handles out of some small fondant balls and a couple bits of wire piping.

A rag doll is nothing without a bow in her hair! Valerie creates a couple bows out of pink fondant; one for the doll’s hair and the other for the front of the basket. She also makes a start on the small candy bracelet that will act as an additional decorative feature.

In this lesson, Valerie finally makes a start on creating the rag doll! Starting off by building the base for her body and finishing with the legs.

Here, Valerie continues on with the rag doll construction by creating the arms and the delicate frilly underskirt.

Valerie makes further headway in creating the rag doll. Here, she moves the body on to the striped cake board and continues with making the dress!

In this lesson, Valerie attaches the arms onto the doll before creating her cute little face and placing the head onto the body.

Valerie puts the finishing touches onto rag doll, and the cake in general, by adding on the hair and completing the little decorative bracelet.

Valerie Shares some other ideas you can implement when making this cake to make it unique to you. We are sure that you have some of your own fantastic ideas too and we would love to see them.

Share your pictures with us on our facebook page as well as Valerie’s.

Paul and Valerie discuss some insider information including the cost of making the Rag Doll & Handbag as well as what they would charge for the cake and more!  Vital information for any professional cake designer.

In this video Paul helps us get to know the talented designer behind this adorable cake. Have a look at her web site here.