As I wanted a rich chocolate cake and wanted the edges not to have a cut surface (brown crumbs) I purchased two square cake pans from a professional cooking supplies shop. They had such an array of sizes to chose from you could make it as large or small as needed. If you were making … Read more
This Princess Iman’s Castle Birthday Cake was fun to make and although it was my first project cake it was exciting. For the towers I used the flat bottom cones and iced two (bottoms) together. The tops were the bottoms of the ice-cream cones covered in butter icing. The towers were filled with marshmallows and … Read more
My 4 year old wanted a princess Barbie theme for her 4th birthday complete with a castle. I used vanilla cake mix for the base. White butter and icing which I made from scratch to get the perfect color she wanted. I mixed 2 colors to get it perfect. I used sugar cones for the … Read more
Originally I was going make cupcakes with bows for my daughter’s 5th birthday party. When I was searching around for cupcake ideas on the web she saw the castle cake and squeaked with glee that she just loved it and would it not be the best to have it for her party? Being the softie … Read more
My daughter wanted a Sleeping Beauty party for her 4th birthday. We had a Sleeping Beauty and Prince Eric toyset with a carriage so she wanted a castle cake for them. I took ideas from several different cakes I saw online and ended up with this design.
My daughter wanted to have a Cinderella party so I volunteered to make a castle cake. After the initial laughter wore off from my wife, mother and in-laws, I took the challenge. My mother was not sure that I could do it so planned to make a back-up cake which I took as an insult … Read more
My three year old daughter decided that she wanted a Cinderella Birthday party and had already been to Disney before. We decided to see about a princess castle cake. We did 2 cake mixes and decided on 3 layers for height. My husband really got into it and decided to use piping for the castle … Read more
This Fairy Castle Birthday Cake was for a friend’s little girl who loves anything pink and sparkly. I used a 9 inch round cake, made my own pastilage to make the towers. Everything was edible except the board it sat on. Rice paper flags, ice cream cones, chocolate buttons and edible glitter on the doors … Read more
My granddaughter, Ellie loved the movie Tangled. So she wanted a Tangled cake. I have made all my grand children’s birthday cakes but I have never made a castle cake. I baked and decorated this cake in 6 hours, however, I have been decorating cakes for 42 years so if you are a beginner I … Read more
This Castle Birthday Cake is a French vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. The outside is covered in rolled fondant. I took half a day off of work and was still up until 2 am finishing it. It is all eatable. The towers are cake baked in soup cans (two layers tall) with covered ice … Read more
This castle cake is made from 2 9×13 cakes stacked on the bottom, and 2 8″ cakes stacked on top. I got the idea from various cakes on this site and modified as I found fit. I started with baking the cakes and letting them sit in the freezer overnight a few days before the … Read more
I made this Castle Birthday Cake for my granddaughter’s 4th birthday. These cakes are iced first with buttercream icing. Then I rolled fondant out to the right height and width of each tier. I used the back side of a long knife to “etch” in the “stone work”. Then just wrapped the fondant around the … Read more