Cooked with Love will be catering for a little girl's birthday party this Friday. Its quite an exciting project, we'll be doing for her yet another one of our signature agar agar show piece. This time round its something that we've always been meaning to try but has never got down to it. Its..its...wait for it, now drum rolls please- The Agar Agar Doll.

Now you've probably seen it before or heard of it, so I shall not trick you by exaggerating its difficulty and the tons of effort that has to go into it. In fact, its a pretty simple project and if all goes well we'll be done in an hour, perhaps, with an impressive showpiece that will hopefully make the little girls go Ga-Ga!

Since I have not got any pictures to share yet, I will try to briefly describe how our showpiece will eventually look like. A feat which, judging from my track record of being frustratingly long-winded and a prodigious bush beater, will be rather hard to accomplish but, I shall try.

The main body of "The Agar Agar Doll" consist of a cone shaped mould with alternating layers of coconut and clear coloured agar agar. The top of the cone is flat and there we shall attach our doll figure. The doll figure is of particular interest and in blatant disregard for my previous promise to be brief, I shall elaborate on it. Imagine your typical Barbie doll, only not so pretty and with 3/4 less hair and a face that might collapse on itself. Then imagine it with only the top half of her body up to her waist. That's how our doll figure looks like. The lack of hair is particularly troubling cause you know, all pretty dolls are known for their lush wavy hair. I'm currently tasked with the all important job of solving this lack-of-hair problem.

What I've came up so far is that we either get her a hat so that the lack of hair won't be visible or we attempt some sort of transplant. Transfer the hair from one of our Barbie's to half-Barbie (let's call her that for now). Its work in progress and I'll definitely update once I've decided on my approach. And if some of you are thinking: "Why, she's so dumb, just tie up half-Barbie's hair and problem solve!". No, no, no, I have already tried that and it failed. This just goes to show how shockingly obvious half-Barbie's lack of hair is.

Come back for more updates!

-Rachel-