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We had a small Firefly-themed shindig for my friend Angel’s birthday! This is the cake that I made for her, inspired (of course) by the fluffy dress that Kaylee wears in the Firefly episode 'Shindig'.

It’s a vanilla butter sponge cake, filled and covered with Swiss Meringue Buttercream. The doll was a slightly-scary mermaid doll from the dollar store, and she was mostly bald, so I colored the bare spot on her scalp with a marker, carefully glued her hair in place, and cut off the matted fresh-from-the-box curls before adding her to the cake (I also glued all of her joints into position, which included forcing one of her arms out to the side so that she wouldn't look like a zombie!). It took about three or three and a half hours of piping to decorate the cake and the doll’s body.

I should have used a slightly larger petal tip for the ruffles, though, because I had to add two extra layers of white to fill space--oopsie.

Totally worth the hand cramp, though

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We had a small Firefly-themed shindig for my friend Angel’s birthday! This is the cake that I made for her, inspired (of course) by the fluffy dress that Kaylee wears in the Firefly episode 'Shindig'.

It’s a vanilla butter sponge cake, filled and covered with Swiss Meringue Buttercream. The doll was a slightly-scary mermaid doll from the dollar store, and she was mostly bald, so I colored the bare spot on her scalp with a marker, carefully glued her hair in place, and cut off the matted fresh-from-the-box curls before adding her to the cake (I also glued all of her joints into position, which included forcing one of her arms out to the side so that she wouldn't look like a zombie!). It took about three or three and a half hours of piping to decorate the cake and the doll’s body.

I should have used a slightly larger petal tip for the ruffles, though, because I had to add two extra layers of white to fill space--oopsie.

Totally worth the hand cramp, though