How to Make a Miniature Cake for a Doll House

Making miniatures is a lot easier than it looks when you're surrounded by tiny details in the doll house section of your craft store. Miniatures, especially food, can get pricey when you purchase them from artisans. Be creative and consider making miniatures with your daughter for her dollhouse. In the long run it is cheaper and making miniatures can be rewarding and a good chance for some quality time. Also, you get to personalize every miniature you make to your specific project. Here are directions for a miniature cake or miniature wedding cake to get you started.

What You Need:

Polymer clay
Silver miniature platter OR cardboard and aluminum foil
Toothpick, razor blade and carving tools
Cornstarch or talc powder

First, make the separate layers of the miniature cake. Decide what color your want the layers to be (mix translucent polymer clay and dark brown for chocolate or ivory for vanilla). The possibilities are endless. Consider making a lemon cake, multi-layered cake mixing vanilla and chocolate, or even a strawberry cake with pink.

When you have chosen the icing color, roll out a thin pancake of that color clay, about a centimeter thick. Trace the outline of the miniature cake layers. You can do circles or squares. Decide how tall you want the cake and make concentric shapes. For example, a four-tier wedding cake would require four circle layers, each one slightly smaller than the next.

Bake the miniature layers individually on your tile according the package directions for the type of polymer clay you are using. Let the layers cool while you make miniature decorative "icing" elements for your miniature cake.

To make flowers for the miniature cake, choose a color of clay and roll out narrow strips as thin as possible. The strips should be about an inch long and less than a centimeter wide. Roll each strip into a spiral. Squeeze the ends of the spirals to form a base with a point. Then, use a blade to slice a bit off the point so the spirals will sit on their bottoms.