My daughter wanted a Belle cake and I didn’t want to try to draw Belle, so I decided to attempt a castle cake. I baked two 9×13 cakes, one for the second layer and one cut for the third layer. The first layer is actually the cake pan iced over! I thought 3 cakes was … Read more

This castle cake was done for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. We had a princess theme with a 8 layer castle cake. First I baked 7 12×12 cakes with just bought cake mixes. Then let cool. I then iced each layer with buttercream icing made from scratch. Once the 6 layers were iced in white buttercream … Read more

Thanks for all the great ideas on this site! I used ideas from a pile of your castles and put them together to make this castle cake for my daughter. The towers are Swiss rolls and the rest is one square and one round chocolate mud cake. Trim curves from the corners of the square … Read more

I made this castle cake for my daughter’s first birthday. It was the first “fancy” cake I had ever made. I used a Dunkin-Hines boxed mix (Devils Food) and added one mashed banana and one box of chocolate pudding. I dusted the pans with oil and cocoa to avoid white powder on my dark cake. … Read more

My youngest daughter celebrated her 5th birthday and I wanted something really special for her cake. I’d made a mermaid Barbie cake for my oldest daughter’s friend and my little one really wanted one too. But I wanted to make her something different so that she would have her own special cake. I am disabled … Read more

I’ve recently discovered that I have a talent in baking. My latest challenge was from my friend for me to make her a Castle Birthday Cake Design for her 23rd birthday. At first I thought it would be very hard and stressful, after a bit of research looking on the computer at different recipes I … Read more

My son wanted a knights and castles birthday party when he turned 5. I spent some time looking at pictures on the internet and then combined the best ideas to make this Castle Birthday Cake. I used a 9×12 for the bottom and a circle pan for the top layer. At the corners and at … Read more

I made this castle cake for my daughter’s first birthday after getting ideas from this site. I knew I wanted to do a three tier cake and didn’t feel like experimenting with cake cones and sugar cones for the towers as many others have done, so I purchased Wilton’s enchanted castle set. I started a … Read more

We used some of the other great ideas found here. We started our Chess Castle Birthday Cake with three yellow fudge marble cakes and stacked them up with chocolate frosting between each layer. The cake was covered in white frosting and bordered with a mixture of blue, red, and green coloring in white frosting. The … Read more

This homemade Castle Birthday cake was for my daughter’s 5th birthday. We coated the cones in almond bark, tinted purple, and then rolled them in blue sugar. We used pink marshmallows for the tops of the castle walls. The draw bridge was a Hershey bar and the ropes were licorice. It was a fun cake … Read more

We baked two chocolate cakes two weeks early and put them in the freezer. Then we baked a round vanilla cake with pink food coloring for the top layer. The frosting was homemade, we made one batch with a recipe of food network then another batch made of powdered sugar. We frosted the entire cake … Read more

I made this for my daughter’s 9th Birthday – she was big into fairies! This was a large tall cake that I made in sponge. The pillars were made by stacking sponge discs onto each other over wooden BBQ skewers and ice cram cones for the towers dusted blue. I added flags to the tops … Read more