I agreed to make my friend’s baby shower cake when she was only 2 months pregnant. Two weeks before the shower she finally got in touch with me to give me the theme. Princess Castle! I viewed many pictures of cakes on the internet and found this site most helpful. This cake was fun putting … Read more
I just used one cake mix, we always have enough with one and I hate throwing out leftovers. I used a 9″ square pan and a smaller circle baking dish. The icing is standard cake icing (1 cup butter, 4 cups icing sugar, 2TB water and 1tsp vanilla). I iced the sides of cakes with … Read more
My daughter requested a princess cake for her 5th birthday. I combined some ideas from the internet as well as added some unique ideas to make the perfect castle cake! I prepared 2 boxes of white birthday cake mix and baked in 1 9 X 13 pan, 1 9 inch round and one 4 inch … Read more
This Hello Kitty Castle Cake was inspired by my 3 year old niece who loves Hello kitty. Also I got a few idea’s from the website! I started by using 2 10in round cakes for bottom tier, the top tier is a 6 in cake, also made some cupcakes. I covered them all with white … Read more
I made two 10 inch square cakes (one box mix per pan). Cake recipe: one box yellow cake mix, one box vanilla instant pudding, 1/2 c. vegetable oil, 1 c. water, 4 eggs. Beat 3 minutes. Bake at 350 for 25 to 35 minutes. (This makes a very moist cake! Do not use a box … Read more
Bake the cake in 2 of each pan: 6-in., 8-in., and 10-in. (This makes a lot of cake!). For this princess castle cake, you will also need gum drops, pastel-colored M&Ms, candy sticks, 2 sugar cones, Disney Princess candle, curling ribbon and dowel rods. Put the 10-in. layers together with frosting in between. Insert dowel … Read more
I made this princess cake castle for my daughters 3rd Birthday. She is allergic to dairy products, so I have to make her a dairy-free cake every year. This year she had a princess theme party. I got the idea from searching sites like this one, to make a cake castle. I had altered the … Read more
I frosted it with store bought icing and decorated it with candies. The door is Hershey miniatures and the bridge is made of sugar wafers and pretzel sticks. The turrets are ice cream cones.The flags I printed off a template from the computer and wrote “Happy Birthday Jacob” with gel pens. I found it a … Read more
For height I used the pan I baked in instead of baking 2 cakes. There would have been too much waste otherwise. The flags helped me hold the cupcakes. I used long kebab sticks that went all the way down. The blue “lake” was made using apple juice, blue food coloring and clear gelatin. Tasted … Read more
I frosted the area around the cake to look like a moat and grass. Ariel is resting on a “rock” made of a frosted cone bottom. The drawbridge is a Hershey bar with licorice rope. I decorated the cake with sugar wafer cookies and skittles. I then placed the entire princess figurines around the castle. … Read more
This cake took a lot of frosting. I made two batches of buttercream frosting each using the two pound bag of powdered sugar.
The roofs to the turrets were ice cream cones brushed with water and covered in a fondant and gum tex mixture and airbrushed and left to dry for 24 hours. they were later dusted with pearl dust. Small round sections were cut from each layer of the cake and the turrets were pushed in and … Read more