For this princess castle cake, cut the first cake in half, glue’ together with chocolate butter icing and leave it in fridge to harden. The other half, cut into four equal squares (you will get some leftovers), stack them all four up and ‘glue’ it to the first cake with icing and again let stand … Read more
For this cake castle, I baked two 9″ square sponges for the bottom cake (filled with buttercream). I baked another 9″ and cut it into 4 pieces (stack 2 or 3 of these pieces on top of each other for the top part of the cake depending on how deep you want the top piece). … Read more
I made 5 cupcakes for the bottom portion of the turrets. The amount of cake mix needed is the equivalent of three and a half cake boxes. I used store bought white icing and food coloring to get the pink purple and blue icing. The white icing that outlines the bottom of the round cake … Read more
To make the castle cakes you will need: 1- 12in cake for the base colored green for the grass, 2 -10in cakes, 2 8in cakes, 2 – 6in cakes and an ice cream cone on top. I covered it all with butter icing and made little iced flowers to decorate round the doors and tower … Read more
Then dipped the cones in and let the dry on a rack. When almost dry I placed a silver dragee on the top of each cone attaching it with the same royal icing. I placed a piece of cardboard cut to size from the bottom of the castle birthday cake( the cardboard was wrapped in … Read more
The frosting was Wilton’s buttercream which Ive found is the closest to that yummy bakery frosting. I made about eight cups to cover cake. I used Wilton gel (rose) coloring for light pink frosting and (leaf green) for green. Towers are rice krispy treats made according to box instruction held together with toothpicks and frosting … Read more
I made this Disney castle cake for my daughters fifth birthday. I had made a similar one the year before but the turrets were so unsteady that it was hard to move the cake (I had done the two cake cones stuck together). This time all I really focused on was getting sturdy turrets. I … Read more
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This Princess Crown Cake was the first cake I ever made, 2 years ago, and since then I have made many more! I used one cake mix to bake 2 small round cakes, 1 pan slightly larger than the other. Then I stacked and iced them in pink buttercream icing. I tinted the icing to … Read more
This Rainbow Dragon Cake is my oldest son’s 5th birthday cake, requested by him and insanely agree to by me. I got the design idea from many of the cakes on this site, and obsessed (happily) over my plan for quite some time. I used food coloring to make the colors of the rainbow for … Read more
This Homemade Dragon Birthday Cake Design was actually a lot simpler than it looks! And wasn’t very time consuming either! I started with 2 10″ round cakes. I cut one in half and put side by side for the body, and the other I cut into different shaped pieces for the feet, tail, neck and … Read more
