My granddaughter wanted a Disney princess party for her 4th birthday. All the girls were to dress like a princess and the boys like knights. So, I made my first attempt at making a castle cake and princess cakes.
I made the castle using a 12×15 sheet pan for the bottom layer,and a double 8″ square cake for the 2nd layer. I used soup cans to make the 4 side towers and a large juice can to make the middle tower. I used sugar cones that I coated with purple candy melts and while the candy was still wet I sprinkled them with purple sugar crystals to make them glitter (I was able to prepare them a few days ahead of time). That was very easy and they were tasty too. I used chocolate covered grahams for the windows and a Hershey bar for the door.
I also made a Disney princess cake for each little girl at the party out of cupcakes that I made. I turned them upside down so the bottom part would be flared out. I then stuck a miniature princess doll into each one and decorated them to look like, Snow White, Aurora, Cinderella, Belle, Jasmine and Ariel. The dolls also served as a favor for the girls. I packed each of the dolls clothing into sandwich bags to give to them at the end of the party.
I decorated regular cupcakes and added a knight to the top to give to the boys. All the children just loved it and my granddaughter was ecstatic. The castle cake was served to the adults and of course we had too much cake so we had plenty to give away. The party was a big success.
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This cake is so nice! I love the idea of having the cupcakes decorated for each child. Very pretty castle cake!
Very Beautiful idea. I will attempt this creation. Thanks for sharing.
I love your cake idea. I was just wondering if you could elaborate on how you used the soup cans and large juice can. Did you place the empty cans on the case and cover them with icing, or did you actually make cake from them? Guess I need a little more specific directions. I’m going to make this cake for my granddaughter’s 5th birthday! thanks!!
This cake is very unique, and well thought out. I really thought this cake topped all the cakes; especially, with the cakes for the guests.
Job Well Done
This cake is done in very creative but simple way. It wouldn’t be as simple as it sounds for me to make though. Will you tell us more details about the can use?
Thanks
I’m gonna recycle your idea hopefully add my flair to it. If I wouldn’t have read your directions my princesses would of been top heavy, lop-sided, just not right. So thank you
This is the first time that I have looked at the comments about this cake for a long time so I’m not sure how old the requests are for information on how I used the juice and soup cans to make this cake so it may be too late for those that asked. But, for anyone else still interested: I actually baked cake in the cans. Make sure the cans are smooth on the inside. I mean no indention in the shape of the can otherwise it will be difficult to remove the baked cake. Spray the inside of the cans well with vegetable spray. Fill them about 2/3 full with cake batter and bake at 350 until done.
its lovely
If you don’t mind this might be the first birthday cake for a very special little girl.
Love the idea of all the little princes cakes.
Wish me luck have 2 months to perfection
this cake is so cool looking im going to attempt it tonight.ill let u know how it goes!
This is exactly the way I’m planning to make my grandaughters cake. She also is going to be four. Did you put any supports under the castle? I did’t know if it would smash the sheet cake. You cake turned out really nice and it has given me a visual of what I want to do.
my mum said that your cake is absolutely beautiful and she thinks its really good how you have shared your idea my sisters is in 4 days we took your idea down and we are going to try to make it are self from Melissa we will have fun me and my mum
My 3 yr old granddaughter will just love this thank for sharing how to do it and making it simple I just might be able to pull it off
Thank you so much
could you tell me where you purchased the disney princess miniature dolls from Please.
Thanks
wow this cake is so cool, and i like that u have added Disney characters as well. Details makes a cake perfect. Good job!!
I saw your post on how much batter to fill the cans with (2/3rds); however, I ended up with a huge mess! The batter quickly rose to the top and over flowed all over my oven. I ended up throwing out all the batter and instead made an alternative. Without clear directions on baking with soup cans you can’t really measure this properly. For my alternative approach I baked cake in ice cream cups then attached them with frosting to the coated sugar cones. It wasn’t my ideal ending for the cake though. In the future I will bake the towers in cupcake pans or square cake pans and stack using frosting and fondant for wrapping the stacked cakes. You can also bake using Pyrex bowls if you want a rounded cake top or you can use square pans and trim cake to size.
To Anonymous: I’m sorry that you had trouble making the cake in soup cans. I did my best to explain how I did it. I had no problems when I made mine.
To everyone else who posted compliments: Thank you. This is the first time I have checked this site in a couple years and only did now because my granddaughter who is going on 9 now wanted to see it. I see there are old posts from people who had some questions and I feel bad that I didn’t know about them so I could have answered you. I was under the impression that Coolest cakes.com sent email notifications when there were posts. I will have to try to remember to check the posts more often.