Australian Women’s Weekly cake winner revealed

The ‘Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake’ is a classic recipe book that was first published in 1980.

The book included all different cakes like the choo-choo train, koala, duck, swimming pool cake, echidna cake and unforgettable Dolly Varden cake with a doll inside.

Earlier this year, the Australian Women’s Weekly had a competition for one reader to create the newest cake and Elizabeth Kelly won with her cockatoo cake.

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Dolly Varden cake recipe

Ingredients

• 470 gram packet butter cake mix
• Butter cream
• 125 gram butter
• 1 1/2 cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoon milk

Decorations

• 200 gram pink and white marshmallows
• 1 Barbie doll, or similar, legs removed
• 1 metre-long pink ribbon (for top)
• 1 artificial flower (optional)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease dolly varden pan well.
2. Make cake according to directions on packet; pour mixture into pan. Bake about 1 hour. Stand cake in pan 5 minutes before turning onto wire rack to cool completely.
3. Make butter cream: Place butter in a small bowl of electric mixer; beat until butter is as white as possible, gradually add about half the icing sugar, beating constantly. Add milk gradually, then gradually beat in the remaining icing sugar; mixture should be smooth and easy to spread with spatula.
4. Spread butter cream all over cake. Gently push doll down into cake to waist level.
5. Halve marshmallows; press marshmallows, cut-side down, alternating pink and white, all over ‘skirt’, starting from the bottom. Wind ribbon around doll’s body to represent bodice, tie at the back in a large bow. Position flower at waist.