Princess Cake With Plastic Toy

• Small princess toys, such as dolls or action figures, can be purchased at a local store or shopping center and placed on top of a cake. After baking the cake, top it with pink, lavender or white frosting. Add a birthday message on top of the cake, and gently place a clean princess toy on top so its lower half enters the top cake layer. Either sink the toy into the cake feet first or use a utensil to create small holes in the cake for the toy to enter. The toy can be part of the birthday girl's present.
  
  

Special Princess Cake

• This princess cake is made in a similar fashion, except with the princess toy immersed to the waist in the cake. Stack two 9-inch round cakes on a serving plate, and and top them with a domed cake to form a skirt. Frost the cakes, but leave the toy un-frosted initially. After the frosting firms, spread additional frosting 2/3 of the way up the skirt of the toy. Add a decorative gel icing trim to the edges of the cake. Dress the doll in a frosting bodice. Cake dolls can be purchased at cake decorating stores and are designed to be frosted.
  
  

Princess Castle Cake

• Bake two large 13-by-9 inch cakes with two boxes of cake mix. Add a box of instant pudding mix to one cake batter to make it stronger. On the second cake, use milk instead of water to make it malleable. Use a bowl as a stencil to make the second cake smaller and round. Place the small, round cake on top of the square base cake to create the castle. Frost both with your choice of colors, but use different colors for the small, round cake and the base. Create columns out of ice cream cones by using large, flat-bottom cones turned upside-down as bases. Use white icing as adhesive to stick traditional sugar cones with pointed ends onto the flat-bottom cones. The pointed portion should stick up. Sprinkle the columns with pink sugar. Insert toothpicks into chocolate kisses to create flags. Use crepe paper to create the flags and attach them to the toothpicks. Use mint chocolate sticks to create a bridge leading to the tower and black licorice for the drawbridge.
  
  

Princess Cupcakes

• Cupcakes are easy to decorate in a princess theme. First bake your choice of cupcakes with cake mix. After the cupcakes are baked and frosted, decorate them with miniature princesses affixed to the tops of the cupcakes with frosting. You can also make princess cupcakes with a swirl of cream and a fondant crown.