You start out by baking up to five square 8×8 or 9×9 cake squares and letting them cool. You then frost together four of the five squares for the bottom. Cut the last square into four equal squares and then frost those and put those in the middle on top of the first set of … Read more
The cake castle itself is two 12-inch hexagons for the base and two 10-inch for the second tier. The front is a 1 layer hexagon cut to fit face. Towers are paper towel rolls covered in fondant. Sugar ice cream cones for turrets covered in Royal icing using basket weave tip to make shingle appearance. … Read more
As you can see from the picture, my decorations began to slide and “melt” a little in the heat, so I would recommend a thick, low moisture frosting.
This cake was 70% icing 30% cake by the time it was done we had to tape the 4 flags together until we got it to the party so that it would not collapse. But above all it turned out to be very beautiful.
The castle floor was then measured out to make a chess board pattern and lightly marked the top of the cake using an unserrated knife and metal ruler. I then tinted some fondant with black and kneaded only enough for the swirl effect of marble then rolled this into a thin sheet and measured this … Read more
I have been looking all over the net for the perfect castle birthday cake. I found one on this same website and just made some minor adjustments. So thank you for all the ideas. Here are the ingredients: three cake mixes, four tubs of frosting, two bags of pink melting chocolate, and two packages of … Read more
A lot of my ideas for a Disney castle cake came from this site. I baked cake in the ice cream cones and set them bottom to bottom and used a #12 round tip to make the stone. I dipped the sugar cones in a candy coating and rolled them in sprinkles. The castle is … Read more
I was asked to make Hogwarts Castle from Harry Potter. No mean feat! (especially as I hadnt seen the film). This rather dark looking creation was adapted from Debbie Brown’s enchanted castle. There are no less than 3 cakes – a 10″ and 8″ round cake for the rock face, which were sculpted to make … Read more
I made this Princess Cake Design for a friend’s daughter who was having a princess birthday party. It’s a 3-tier cake, each cake is 4 layers high, pan size 10in, 8in, 6in. Inside it’s just your basic chocolate and vanilla cake with buttercream icing. To cover the cake and for the decorations I used homemade … Read more
This Scottish Dragon Cake is a chocolate sponge with caramel and buttercream. I covered with marshmallow fondant scales!
To make this homemade dragon cake I first off made 2 round wheat free cakes. I then cut one in half for the main body then used the second cake cut in to seven pieces to form tail, feet, and head. I then iced with royal icing. I cut triangles and wing shapes (with a … Read more
