I made this Princess Castle Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. I used the Wilton Castle cake set that you can buy at Hobby Lobby or Wal-mart. I made two 9″ rounds and two 6″ rounds and crumb coated the cakes and put them in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before applying fondant and … Read more

Deciding on a theme for my daughter’s second birthday was the easy part because she loves anything with princesses. Designing and creating the perfect princess castle cake was the challenge. After searching what seemed like a million websites, I came across an advertisement for a Disney castle cake kit that included the cake pans, multiple … Read more

Whew! This cake was not easy, as you will learn as you begin to make one for your little princess. By the time it was finished, my back was killing me, but it was so worth it. My three-year-old is truly a princess (which makes me the queen!). My daughter and I made a different … Read more

My daughter had a Fairytale Themed Birthday party for her 5th Birthday last year. We got several ideas online and came up with our own design for a castle cake. We made 4 homemade white cakes, so we could stack them and ice them in the middle. There were 2 large rectangles and 2 smaller … Read more

For my daughter’s 2nd birthday, I decided to make a castle birthday cake. I visited coolest birthday cake.com. Finally, I decided to buy the princess castle set from Michel I made more than 500 flowers and leaves. The cake was a two-tier cake castle wrapped in fondant. Turrets covered in Royal icing and red colour … Read more

The cake was approx. 15” tall and 13” wide. Bottom layer was 5” tall, top layer was 4” tall and towers add the remainder of the height. Everything was edible with the exception of the pennant sticks, smoke from dragon’s nose and drawbridge sticks. Cake board was wrapped in fancy foil then covered with buttercream. … Read more

For my daughter’s 4th birthday, my oldest daughter and I set out to make a cake that would be fun and show off the birthday girl’s personality. Using that as our guideline, we knew the cake had to be pink and had to be all about princesses. After seeking inspiration from the birthday girl’s favorite … Read more

The Castle Birthday Cake was constructed out of three 9-inch square layers for the base and 3 6-inch round layers for the upper structure, all filled and frosted with white whipped frosting. The square brick perimeters of the castle were made with sugar cubes. After I got the basic cake assembled, I put it in … Read more

I made this Cinderella Castle Cake for my daughter’s 2nd Birthday Party. When she choose Cinderella as her theme the gears started turning. I wanted to make her a homemade cake that’s special, since that is what I always had growing up with a mom who made cakes for extra money. Would I make a … Read more

My son wanted a Mario cake for his 8th birthday so I gave it a try! I made the base out of a large sheet cake. I used red, orange and a little black Wilton icing color to get the brick color and I did the sides of the cake first. Then I iced the … Read more

This was our first attempt at a homemade birthday cake. We used box cake mixes, funfetti flavor & it was very moist. The frosting on the Castle cake is made out of marshmallow fondant tinted grey, black & yellow. The fondant is what took the longest to prepare, but I think if we make another … Read more

We got our ideas from this website and howdini. You definitely need to make the towers ahead of time (at least 2 days) which was made with ice cream cake cones stem to stem, wrapped in white fondant. The fondant needed time to harden. This was my first time using fondant and it was not … Read more