The gourmet chain Dean & DeLuca is currently displaying one of her doll cakes — an updated version of an old-fashioned cake decorated with the upper half of a porcelain doll sitting atop a crinoline skirt of fondant and cake ($375) — in its SoHo store.
His face is illuminated by the neon sign in the display windows, where LaGuli's signature Barbie doll birthday cakes are on display.
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling A doll atop a cake opens her arms in welcome.
Of course, like all the best tabloids, Dolls has its cake and eats it, too, and still has enough to throw triumphantly in the face of the showbiz establishment.
In America, TV networks are planning wall-to-wall coverage - there is TV movie, a lifelike Kate Middleton doll, and specially-designed cakes.
No dolls or cup-cake decorating on the lesson plan here.
The altars, from Brazil, Trinidad and New Jersey, include various folk paraphernalia and adaptations of Nigerian ritual objects: axes, candles, oil and liquor bottles from Trinidad; dolls, fruit, gourds, cakes and a leopard skin, representing Shango, for the shrine from New Jersey.
Davos is an onion, a layer cake, a Russian doll.
Malinda Sanna, the founder of and strategic planner for Spark, a market research company based in New York, guided the women through the process of creating large collages using materials from tables decorated with all kinds of materials: a Styrofoam cake with Barbie dolls perched on each layer, fresh flowers, coffee beans and scented oils.
