This castle cake was one of the first birthday cakes I made for my daughter, and it was a lot of trial and error. It turned out pretty nice, not perfect, but she loved it! I used a yellow cake mix for the cake and different sized square pans. The icing was Swiss meringue buttercream … Read more

I made this castle cake for my 4 year old daughter. She wanted a princess castle. I used the Wilton cake kit. The turrets are rolled in sugar crystals. The towers come white but we painted them purple which is her favorite color. All flowers are individually made. I used homemade icing and tinted it … Read more

This castle birthday cake was made by me for my daughter’s 18th birthday! It was made from plain sponge cake, a large square with odd bits stuck around it in layers to give a landscape effect when covered in green fondant icing. I used watered down green colouring and edible green cake dusting powder to … Read more

My future stepdaughter is mad on Disney Princess’, so last year I decided to attempt my first ever cake and make a Disney Princess castle cake. It took me 7 backbreaking hours to decorate it, was it worth it. Yes! Lil’s loved it so much that unfortunately for me she’s asked for the same cake … Read more

For this homemade castle birthday cake I baked a square two layer chocolate cake in 8 inch tins. These were sandwiched together with butter cream. The four towers were made from 2 large Swiss roll cakes cut in half so that one Swiss roll made 2 towers. The cake was iced in fondant icing. It … Read more

I started with a 2 layer stacked cake baked in 10″ pan covered in white buttercream icing. Then topped with with a smaller 2 layer cake iced pink. No particular pan used for top tier. I carved it out of extra cake left over from her #1 smash cake. Windows and doors are piped lattice … Read more

I searched and searched many sites for ideas of how to make a cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. We had a princess party planned. After looking at a whole bunch of other cakes, this castle cake is what I came up with. This cake ended up being so easy, which is good because I’m … Read more

I started out really ambitious, and probably would have done better if I’d allowed for more time (story of my life). The beautiful thing about this castle cake was that it was actually relatively easy – just a couple of square layers, a couple of round layers, and cupcakes. You’ll need: 3 boxed cakes or … Read more

For my daughter’s 5th birthday, she wanted a cake with Cinderella, the prince, and the glass slipper. I started this Cinderella Castle Birthday Cake by making two half sheet cakes. I used the first as a base for the cake and the second I cut into two 7 x 9 inch squares which I used … Read more

This cake consists of 1 and a 1/2 – 10″ round vanilla cakes coated and filled with vanilla butter cream. The turrets are made well in advance with gum paste so they set hard and are hollow. The turret tops are painted with silver luster powder mixed with a small amount of vodka and sprinkled … Read more

I made 2 white 8×8 cakes, 1 8×8 chocolate and 6 chocolate cupcakes to start this Big Pink Castle Birthday Cake. I stacked the white cakes on top of each other and then cut the square chocolate into smaller squares and stacked them. The icing is homemade whipped icing. I iced a sugar cone and … Read more

This Homemade Castle Birthday Cake could’ve been much easier than it was…lol..make sure you’ve got the right pan sizes so you don’t have to improvise. Frosting cut edges is no fun. Several days in advance, either make marshmallow fondant, or get some store bought fondant. You need 2 paper towel rolls, 2 toilet tissue rolls, … Read more