A friend of a friend contacted me and asked me to make a Fairy Castle Cake for her daughter’s 4th birthday. She gave me a link to a video she’s seen on you tube which I watched a few times and decided to try and copy. Well, it worked! And the birthday girl was thrilled! … Read more
For this homemade haunted castle birthday cake I used the Wilton Castle kit. I made six 8′ cakes in orange, black and purple. Covered in cream cheese gray colored icing. Covered the castle pieces in the same gray colored icing. Enjoyed making this cake. It was for a 13th girls birthday!
I made this Castle Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. She wanted a Princess Castle cake so we went with pink (!). The idea came from a book called No Time Party Cakes. It’s quite simple really. The bottom cake was a 12″ vanilla sponge and the top was an 8″ chocolate sponge (because … Read more
I made this Castle Cake Idea for my daughter Alyssa’s first birthday. It was fairly easy and the end was result was fantastic. My main aim was to make it taste just as good as it looks. I made 2 rich chocolate cakes, with layers of chocolate ganish (chocolate sauce). One layer was for the … Read more
I wanted my 5 year old to have a Castle Birthday Cake Design, and wanted to make it. This was the biggest cake project I’ve ever done. I made my own buttercream icing (also another 1st) and dyed it pink. I took 8 regular ice cream cones and dipped them in melted dyed almond bark….and … Read more
I made this Castle Cake with three different types of mud cake. The bottom layer was a 10” round chocolate mud cake. The middle layer was a 6” round white chocolate mud cake and the top layer was a 3” round caramel mud cake. I also sculpted the turrets from “cake pop” mix (cake that … Read more
This Minnie Mouse Castle Cake was for my granddaughter’s fourth birthday. The main cake is a 9inch round vanilla Madeira cake filled with vanilla butter cream. The 3 fatter round turrets are also vanilla filled butter cream Madeira cake. The board is covered with pink sugar pasted and then embossed with a cobble stone mat … Read more
First I purchased 4 cake mixes, and four cans of whipped frosting, sugar ice cream cones, gummy candies, food coloring and purple and green tube icing. I prepared the cake mixes as directed, using the sheet cake recipe for all 4. Then I cut them out into squares, two of the sheet cakes in half, … Read more
The curly ribbons (white) give the princess castle cake a cloudy look.
This is a 10-inch round cake. I used both regular ice cream cones and sugar cones for the top. The little candy balls on the cake are not gumballs – they are called Dutch chocolate mints. They come in really pretty shades of pastels and are really hard to find. I buy mine in the … Read more
Both castle cakes were made from scratch but store bought it just fine too. After the cakes cooled I covered them both in buttercream frosting tinted with a light purple color. For the drawbridge and windows I used a white chocolate candy bar. I placed four ice cream sugar cones up-side down on the cake … Read more
