Each year, my granddaughter asks me to make her birthday cake. This year's request was for a Doc McStuffins cake. It has been quite a long time since I have watched television for the little ones. I had no idea what a Doc McStuffins was. I did some research and found out some details. It's a really cute show!
Something you should know about my granddaughter is she just turned 5, but inside this girl is trapped a 25 year-old woman. Nothing gets past this child. Last year, she asked for Disney Princesses for her birthday. I made her a small cake with a tiara and then made cupcakes in all the colors of the princesses gowns. I then added some coarse sugar to make them sparkle. Well, long story short, she was thrilled with her cake and her cupcakes, but then told me how I missed a princess in the cupcakes. Apparently, there is a princess from the movie Tangled that I did not know about.
Anyway, I'm getting off track. I did feel a bit of pressure as I started to put the pieces together for this cake. I am completely self taught, so the thought of making figures for the cake made me quiver. There are things I would do differently in hind sight; but overall, I am pretty proud of this cake.
The bottom and middle tiers are 3 layers each alternating white cake and chocolate cake. Cheater alert: I used box cakes. They were on sale at the grocery store, and I add thing to them to boost them up a bit. The top layer, the medical bag, is a total of 4 layers...all vanilla dyed to be purple and pink.
