I finally pulled off a Princess Cake for my princess. Yes I did it! I cant tell you all how happy I am with this li’l achievement of mine. Yes it is no less an achievement for me because I didnt think I could pull this off. Honestly I didnt. Baking a princess cake was a complex task in itself for me so I was pretty much sure I will goof up and I almost did too. But I really really wanted to give this cake a shot, for my daughter who had been insisting on having one for a long long time.
Smitha, I can’t thank you enough for all your help. I know how much I have pestered you in the last one week with my constant mails, smses, and calls. But I’m glad those pesterings bore fruit :). The cake doesnt look half as good as what you made though, but Namnam was all smiles when she saw the cake and that makes me really happy 🙂
Before heading off to join R & Namnam to cut the cake, let me share with you all, a snap of my li’l attempt :).
EDITED TO ADD: Those who want to know how to make a princess cake, head straight to Smitha’s blog post where she has explained the method in detail 🙂
Perceptions 
😥 You didnt have to sacrifice a barbie to make tht cake!! 😥 😥 😥
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lol. she didnt. you can buy the head and torso at any craft store. It sticks right into the cake:)
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Oh ho getting all emotional for your first ever..crush haan?
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LOL 😛
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@Count Bratula I didnt sacrifice your girlfriend Barbie..well not fully..only her legs had to be amputated to get her to fit into my cake 😈 Her beautiful face and torso are kept safely for you 😛 😛
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me no gets no cake ????? 😛 😛 😛
and yes… first up… Wish Namnam a very very happy birthday from my end !!!!
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Beautiful!! I took cake decorating classes in high school loved it. I have only made 1 cake in the 15 years since 🙂
))hugs((
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Welcome here blueeyes 🙂
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Deeps, it is so so so very pretty! Much better than mine! I so want a piece of this!
D: C’mon, Smits..you’re being so modest now..your cake was far better-looking than mine, re 🙂
I told Kunju that you were baking this today and all she wanted was to fly off to your place 🙂 if I show her this, she is sure to disown me 🙂
D: Awww…my Kunjumani! Send her here, Smits, I’ll bake her whatever she wants me to. Ummas to my Kunjumani 🙂
It has come out so well Deeps! I am going to pester you now when I bake my next birthday cake:)
D: Hee hee…yeah sure pester all you, Smits..you have every right to take a revenge :P. Hugs and loads of hugs to you for everything, sweetheart 🙂
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Ok leave it both of u! My unbaked cake is better than both 😉 Agreed 😛 😛
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The cake looks amazing…how can Namnam not like it. I am all smiles looking at it so I can imagine the little sweetheart 🙂
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Thank you, Comfy :). Arre, Namnam didnt want to cut the cake you know..she was adamant that the cake be left as it is 😀
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Phew! am I glad that I have a boy who is happy just to gobble up cup cakes and extra happy if I draw a smiley on them
Hey that cake has come out gorgeous and I love the star studded dress 🙂 So now you are a mommy baker too? 😥
I can’t take my eyes off your enormous book shelf. Wish i could zoom away and look at what all is stashed up there 😛
D: Come right over, Saksh! Feel free to dig into my bookshelf and pick as many books as you want :).
Well before Vimmu and the likes ask you, let me go ahead and do the honours! 🙄 Is that a pregnant Barbie? 👿
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Hehe Sakshu, My girl is the same. We are dhabbas of mommydom.
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Ha ha ha!
If so, how many months 😛 😛
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hehehehhehe….i was goin to ask the same thing!!! Damn it !! u beat me to it!! Now i gotta think of something else which is meaner than tht! D’oh!! 👿
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Che che, all you can think of is pregnant Barbie, Saksh 🙂 Ken must be committing suicide somewhere 🙂
And I am with you on that bookshelf! I am so drooling over it too! I would give an arm and a leg for a bookshelf like that!
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All you curious bratties & bratoos who wanted to know if Barbie was pregnant, let me spill it rightaway…YES, SHE IS!! She’s going to be Bratu-kuttapan’s bache-ki-ma!! 😆 😈 😈
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😯 This Brat has been leaving kids galore everywhere he goes! psst psst deeps this is the second such Net se Bache delivering case of his 🙄
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Really, Saksh?? Who’s his first born?? Tell me fast *biting nails incessantly in anticipation* 😈
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Eeks really 😛
Where is the first one?
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As I am his bestest friend my lips are sealed! 😳 But you can know the truth of Bache Ka Paapa Kaun hai by clicking here http://endowedwithmetis.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/letters-to-my-daughter-part-ii/
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Aiyyo! Brat is becoming a dad? I thought all he did was de-frost women all over the place 🙂
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@Deepsamma!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?? Veruthe vazhikode nadannu pona ennepidichu kochinte accchan akkiyalle?? How dare u make such false allegations against me!!!!!!!!!! I demand a DNA test!!
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@yakshi
Bestest friendinulla pani njan pinne tharam! U wait n watch! Vimmmuuu n i r goin to defame tht adivasi post of urs! 👿
@Smitha
U tooo??? i thought u were the kinda soul amongst these evil mommies!tell me how can an innocent ‘heat stare’ generate babies? All these mommies r hell bent on ruining my angelic reputation here! Grrr!! This post is supposed to a.. err.. nice cake post remember..NOT a “barbie ko Insaf Kab milega” Post!!
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@Swaramboo
Noooo I AM NOT…i repeat NOTTT a Kunwara baap!! 👿
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So cute!!!!! Thank God R isn’t interested in Barbies , all I had to do was mix blue colouring into ready-made-butter-cream and spread it all over a ready-made-rectangular cake and PRETEND it was Thomas the Tank Engine 😉
Very well done, Deeps!!!! I wish we could also see Nammy’s expression!!
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LOL What an idea Pal 😉
And I sooo want Nammu’s pic too 🙂
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LOL, Pals, you’re a riot! Arre , Namnam was quite thrilled at the outcome because she didnt expect her mom to actually make it possible for her 😀
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W00t! It looks yummilicious just like Smi’s cake. Love you both. Will you be my fraaands?
D: You want me to give you gaalis in Italian again in response to your fraandship request?? 😈 You’re my friend for life, Solu-polu..love you too 🙂
Muah!
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How come we r not fraaands yet solilo JI? 😥
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@Bratuleya: Solilo JI doesnt offer her fraandship to any aira-gaira 😛
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I like this solu polu !!! 😛 😛
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Hai Jaaneman. Tu to bada sona lag raha hai Phantom costume mein. 😉
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Beautiful! But how can we push ourselves to cut/distort it?!
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LOL I ws wondering abt that too!
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Know what, Sandhya, Namnam was literally screaming when we asked her to cut the cake. She just didnt want to cut it :). Eventually she did cut though and ate it too 😀
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what a pretty cake Deeps!!! Amazing work…and don’t tell me it’s just a little achievement…of course not!!! It’s wonderful,lovely…beautiful !!
how sweet of Smithu to have helped you out 🙂 YAY to her too 🙂
Lovely cake Deeps..does’t look like first attempt at all!
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Awww, thanks so much Nu 🙂 Oh yes, Smits is the sweetest!
Arre, it was my first attempt, re! Trust me, I had to do a lot of papad-beling to get this one right 😀
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Sigh! Am I sweeter atleast 😛 😛
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This looks perfect. Did namnam have a blast?
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She did, Lakshmi! She had almost given up on me, you know..she had been asking me to make this cake for months and I was so nervous of goofing it up that I was stalling it every time 😦
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Sakshi just read my mind. I was about to ask “Who made pretty Barbie pregnant?” 😀 😀 😀 😀
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Thank God u dint answer it urself!
Barber made Barbie so 😯
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😯 😯
If that’s what a pregnant barbie looks like, I shudder to think how many kids are in her tummy anyway!!!! 😛
D: LOL Ash 😆
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LOL, Ash!
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@Vimmuuu
KEN Kanhaiyaa 😛 😛
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@Vimmuuu: Bratu-kuttappan! 😛 😛
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The cake looks yum! 😀 And definitely apparently that u took a lot of pains to get it in shape…
D: Oh yes, a lot of pains did go in getting this cake in shape, Ash 😀
Wow! We have like a lot of mommy bakers in blogosphere!
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Superb cake deeps and i can make out how happy is namnam kutty.
Varu and pinky wants to take the cake from the laptop.loved it with those stars on the dress….
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Awww! Send Varu & Pinky over here, Sari..I’ll make a princess cake for them too 🙂
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awww .. its awesome .. hey u ned to teach me this one plz … I so want to do it for sis in zurich after her delivery .. 🙂
D: Click on Smitha’s post that I’ve linked up in my post, Sags. The recipe is in there 🙂
namnam must have been in the 7th heaven ….
errr.. one samll questions what happens to the head n torso after the cake is eaten? ? ? 😉
D: Oh, the head and torso are either re-united with the legs that were taken off to fit into the cake or in my case where the legs could not be re-fixed, find a space in my trash-bin 😛 😈
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😯 scarring images from my childhood will flash infront of my eyes! 😯
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i dont think i will be able to eat a cake seein all tht hair…And I think its really cruel and inhumane to eat a cake tht looks like a girl’s frock..
D: 😦 😦 😦
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more silly than it is to wear a pink lungi eh? 😛
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Wow!!.. the cake looks yummy. what are those stars on the barbie?
D: Those are decorating stars Namnam uses for her craft 😀
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Hey lovely cake Deeps! Congrats! 😀
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Thank you Shail 😀
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GREAT JOB Deeps. God you talanted women, ie Smi and you, I have to get hold of both of you sometime to bake me some nice cakes!!
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Anytime, sweetheart 🙂
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I am so proud to have known such an awesome cake maker!!
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Awww, you’re so sweet, Neha 🙂
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Deeps, lovely cake, saw nammukuttys happiness on the fb snap. Now heading to Smithas blog 😉
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Thank you, REkha 🙂
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I’d better make sure my daughter doesn’t see this or she’ll be pestering me for one ;). She just made me bake 45 muffins for Children’s day :(.
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45 muffins?? Wow,Dreamer!!
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next year 11th november 2011 .. pre book a cake order please
and I want exactly the same other then the BArbie .. you seee grown up now , now into barbies anymore 🙂
I prefer a car or a jet maybe 🙂 yeah have the barbie driving or flying one I dont mind 🙂 yayyyy
please say yes 🙂
Bikram’s
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Done! 😀
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Dear Deepti Aunty, I really like Namnam’s birthday cake. And I wish I had the same barbie as you. I wished I lived there and never came back to Leeds – but I can’t. I really want you to come to my house. You can a holiday with me. And you can be with me.
Kunju
Deeps – she actually dictated this to me. So I just typed whatever she said – and she said this without any prompting at all! So you guys have to come here now!
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👿 👿 👿 Smithu you did this to get a book shaped cake baked for you na?? 😈 😈 😈 Will you let Poohi write a letter to her Sexy Aunty if I promise to get you a shoe? 😥
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Awww, Kunju, how can I turn such a sweet invite down, darling? We will surely come there and we’re all going to have loads of fun. Know what, sweetheart, Namnam remembers you a lot. She & I wish too you were living here. Namnam would have loved to share her Barbie and other toys with you and I would have made as many cakes for you as you want 🙂
Smits, give my kunjumani loads and loads of kisses and hugs, will you?? Oh, she is a darling! We have got to plan our next meet up soon, Smits 🙂
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nobody wishes to be with me and feed me cakes 😦 😦
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this new gravatar… is total WHISTLE PODU !!!!!!! me likes !!!
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Tanku Tanku Maharaj 😀
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its beautiful 🙂 i am sure gonna try it… wish instead i become a little girl again and my mum tries this for me… mamma kaisa bhi hoga, mai khalungi.,;)
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How sweet! Welcome here, Nikita 🙂
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the barbie looks beautiful Deeps 🙂 Surely would have made Namnam smile 😀 😀
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Thank you, Kanagu 🙂
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wow the cake looks so awesome and yummy too 🙂 I am sure Namnam would have loved it!
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She did, Avada. Thank you 🙂
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this is such a incredible cake…very beautiful.
and there can be many beautiful cakes but if Namnam likes it ..you have passed with distinction 🙂
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Thanks so much, Vandana 🙂
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wow.what a beautiful yummy cake!!
D: Thank you, Renu 🙂
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Very beautifully done….Namnam would’ve been on Cloud 9, seeing this, right ????
D: She was thrilled, Uma. She had almost given up on me 😀
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Wow… This looks like an art piece… If my mom woyld have baked such a cake for me I wonder if I would have ever even cut it… I’ll ask my mom to bake one for me… Just to check if I would actually cut it or not… 😉
D: You’re ‘sounding’ like Namnam. She was screaming when we asked her to cut the cake. She just didnt want to 😀
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The cake looks pretty and delicious. Can I get a piece of it??
D: Sure Harini. Come over 🙂
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ah, brilliant!
D: Thanks Iya!
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Wah wah… the cake looks soooo yummy! 🙂
D: Hee hee..it was yum 😀
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You really did it. I really admire how much hardwork it is to be a parent. Wish kids will remember when they grow up…
Happy parenting and happy belated birthday to your princess.
Peace,
Desi Girl
D: Her b’day was in september, DG. Thank you anyway :). Namnam had been asking me to bake this cake for months, I got around to making it only now 😀
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Eee how long did this take? Such a neat beauty! I am sure your princess must have been super pleased.
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