This pink and white castle cake was my first cake that went beyond the basic round cake pan. The whole thing came together pretty well, and was a MASSIVE hit at my daughter’s 7th birthday party. My daughter came up with the heart shaped stepping stones, which make the cake just that much more ‘girly’. A cake like … Read more

Every birthday my kids and I search the internet for ideas on what cake they want for their birthday. We then make it together and I decorate it. It has become a very special part of their birthdays…it’s a big deal.  This year the party theme was everything princess. My daughter was turning three and … Read more

I surprised my daughter while we were in Florida with this cake.  We were planning a trip to Disney World the next day so I thought a Disney Princess Castle cake would be the perfect birthday cake.  She was so excited! For this cake I used the Wilton Romantic Castle Cake Set.  I followed the directions with … Read more

This was an impressive castle cake to make. I hired the Wilton Romantic Castle Cake kit (which included the turrets, windows,doors, peaked roof, flower cutters). I made 400 little flowers using the cutters and let them dry. Then I iced the turret tops, window edges and roof with royal icing and rolled them (and sprinkled  in colored sugar which I made myself by adding a … Read more

This is my first really big castle cake. I made it for my daughter’s music teacher. His daughter was turning 6! All I was told was to make it pink, lol. I knew I wanted turrets but wasn’t sure how to get them “realistic” until I saw the sugar cone idea. So I airbrushed the … Read more

This sweet Princess Castle cake looks simple but it actually took me ages to do it.  However, the result is awesome! This is a raisin walnut butter-cake. Everybody loves it! My daughter was there to watch me do all the decorations.  When I started to put the pink waffles as doors and windows, she wasn’t really keen.  Her brother was laughing … Read more

To make this castle birthday cake I used 3 boxes of white cake mix and 3 boxes of chocolate cake mix. The bottom layer is (2) 12″x12″ square and the top layer is (2) 10″ round. The frosting is a crusting butter cream that I smoothed with a viva paper towel. I purchased the dragon and knight/horse … Read more

This Princess Castle cake was very easy to make.  I was very pleased with Wilton’s pan and directions.  Cake came out fine and lines were very visible to draw the lines.  After doing all the stars I went back and did the outline again with dark rose color to bring it out more.

My daughter asked for a princess castle birthday cake for her 5th birthday. I’ve made a few cakes for family previously but only a Victoria sponge with fondant icing on and just a few decorations. I knew it would be a big task but really wanted to do it for her. I started at 10am by greasing/papering … Read more