Castlemania Cake for the “Hard-to-Please” Princess

My 6 year old granddaughter wanted a castle cake with all the Disney princesses walking up and down a staircase, sooo my co-conspirator and cousin who took decorating classes with me and I, came up with an idea for a castle cake that would WOW her so much, she’d forget about the walking princesses, and here we go…

Day 1:  We bought the 10 Disney princesses and the Wilton castle kit, then later added the lights. Everything else is fondant, icing, or cake. We made all kinds and colors of fondant and royal icing flowers and leaves.

Day 2:  I started on the cake, four layers, octagon shape, white cake with raspberry filling and white chocolate icing. Cousin Sherry started making fondant “props” for each of the princesses who didn’t get to stand in a tower.

Pocahontas and Ariel got a waterfall flowing into a pool, Pocahontas standing on top, Ariel in the water.  Jasmin has a colorful magic carpet with a magic lamp riding along with her. Mulan is standing under a cherry blossom tree with her bench, lantern and some kind of axe-looking weapon. Tiana is standing in a courtyard in front of a stone wall with her frog prince (the star in my opinion).  At some point, I decided the cake needed some lighting.  Sherry’s husband called to see if we were OK.  It was 3 am!  Time flies.

Just to let you know, we took four classes last summer, so we are still amateurs, although after this cake, we may move ourselves up a notch.

Day 3:  Fun time!  We get to put it all together. Bought lights, then I iced the cake while Sherry decorated the towers. We iced a project board reinforced with duct tape, then covered it with green coconut, and added a cake hill for Mulan’s cherry tree, leaving a place in the middle back for the castle cake. Then I piped the borders and around each layer and added an aqua edible pearl to the center of each piped round thing. Next we arranged the towers and placed in the cake and finished the piping around them. One fell, messing up the cake, no problem, picked it up, reinforced it, reinforced the rest of them repaired the damage.

Bad news, it won’t fit in the fridge and we live in South Louisiana!  Sooo, I turned the air conditioner to 50 degrees and told my husband to wrap up and do not complain, or he could go to a hotel, but the cake would be comfortable. I added little individual battery operated led lights in pertinent places on the board to illuminate the water fall, and each of the princesses. Sherry made a walkway to the castle lined with flowers and the six candles, three on each side lined the walkway. Added a fondant banner held up by bluebirds and adorned with white bows and Camryn’s name in the middle.  We are turning blue, and the hotel is sounding pretty good, but I’m not leaving this cake.

Transport went well, just one casualty.  Jasmin fell off her perch and the perch broke, but the carpet and lamp survived. I found a suitable replacement perch, and that was that.  Well, it was definitely worth all that work/fun, as you will see in the pictures, until a lady at the party asked, “Does that thing have sound?”  Dang, I wish I had thought of that.  Oh well, here it is.  I have many much better pictures, but they were too large to add.  This one is from my cell phone.

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