Who Gets to Lick Barbie?
I ran across this picture on flickr while doing a search for dessert (I always find amazing pictures of desserts and dessert tastings from other countries and big cities). It reminded me of a cake my sister made for her daughter’s birthday. Barbie had been stripped of clothing, poked into the center of a dome-carved layer cake, and then decorated to look like she was wearing a big poofy dress made of frosting. It’s a rather cute idea - since my niece got a cake, and then a Barbie to boot. The closest I had as a kid was a Hot Wheel driving across my cake (which I loved BTW). In one case I found on Flickr, it didn’t seem to work out too well on a boy’s cake.
I’m told this is called a “Princess Cake” - and here’s an example of one.
When my sister was ready to cut my niece’s cake, and the photos had been taken to preserve its memory, she carefully slipped the frosting-clad Barbie out from the middle (now half exposed, since the bottom half of her dress was the cake) and then flung her around the room and asked “who wants to lick Barbie?” We all started laughing, and my sister turned bright red with embarrassment, having just realized what a silly question this was (noting the fact it was only frosting covering her upper body).