My daughter decided she had to have a princess Castle Birthday Cake for her fourth birthday. I had made a few cakes decorated like her favorite cartoon characters, that she just loved! I Googled cakes for an idea of where to start. When I found this site I fell in love! I enjoy making cakes … Read more
For my 17th birthday, I decided to have a ‘Harry Potter’ themed party, a Hogwarts Birthday Cake included! It was the combined effort of both my mum and my aunt and lots of advice and titivating from me. Mum cooked three red velvet cakes in different sized cake tins – in decreasing sizes. She bought … Read more
The bases of these types of castle cakes is a double layer square cake, and then on top of that I put a 4-inch round cake, and at the very top, a tiny cake baked in a large muffin tin. I doweled them so they would not fall over! I frosted them all with pink … Read more
I placed clear gel around the castle to represent water around it (not blue as it was not an ocean). I tinted coconut in green and spread around to resemble the natural surroundings. The door and bridge to the castle are 2 graham crackers and the hinges are 2 strands of spaghetti covered with matching … Read more
Long story short, for fun some other Moms and I took the Wilton courses offered at the local craft store and I improved upon my original design thanks to some hints I learned in class. This cake used a two-layer 6-inch round for the top, a two-layer 10-inch square for the bottom, and about 10 … Read more
We have done wedding cakes before but had never tried anything like a castle. We used a half sheet cake as the base. We then stacked a 10″ square 8″ square and a 6″ round. We reinforced the cake with straws so that it would not topple over. We used sugar cones on top of … Read more
I made this castle birthday cake from a 10″ round Madeira then an 8″ round Madeira on top. I used baked bean tins for the towers and marshmallow filled cones for the spires. I tinted white chocolate pink and covered the cones with that. Its iced with masses of pink buttercream and lots of sweets! … Read more
I used a 10′ two layer round cake base and an 8” square cake cut to 6” square. My idea came from the many castle cake recipes on this site. The turrets were made from sugar paste wrapped around a plastic-covered tube. Bricks were cut in with a knife. Top two turrets were made from … Read more
I made this Disney castle cake for my daughters third birthday. The bottom of the cake is a two layer 9×13 cake and the top is also two layers that I cut to fit on top of the larger cake. I used buttercream icing. I also used sugar cones. I coated the cones with icing … Read more
I made this crown cake for my husband’s birthday. My husband prides in calling himself a King. Red and Black is his favorite color, so that’s how I came up with the colors to use. I wanted to make this a project that my two children could also be a part of. First thing I … Read more
