I made this Homemade Castle Birthday Cake Design for a friend at work. The cake is chocolate cake, the towers are crispy cake and is all covered in fondant icing. The towers are icecream cones rolled in butter icing then rolled in sparkly pink glitter. The green leaves and flowers are painted on with food … Read more
My little princess (my granddaughter) wanted a pink and purple castle for her 5th birthday party, so I set to work on this Castle Cake Idea several days ahead of time. I had seen a number of kits out there but wanted the entire cake to be edible so I decided to make my own. … Read more
I made this Castle Birthday Cake Design for my friend Ashley’s daughter’s 1st birthday 2 years ago. Her theme was Medieval princess/castle party, including all kinds of decorations that were princess/knights and anything to do with medieval times. I started by using the Wilton Castle kit. The bottom consists of 2- 12 inch round round … Read more
I had seen a few pictures of the fairy tale castle cake and thought that I’d never be able to put this cake together myself but it wasn’t too bad. I just put some glitter in a little vodka and painted it onto the castle topper. Others I’d seen had been done in food colouring … Read more
My daughter desperately wanted a tiered castle birthday cake for her fourth birthday party, and as she’s celiac, it needed to be gluten free. The Princess Rose Palace (gluten free) Cake is made following a basic Victoria sponge recipe – with a few variations using doves farm gluten free flour instead of wheat flour, with … Read more
Here are the ingredients: 3 cake mixes, 4 tubs of frosting, 2 bags of pink melting chocolate, 2 packages of ice cream cones – one sugar and one regular, package of princesses from Disney store, chocolate squares, edible glitter, pink sugar crystals, wooden skewers, & sweet tarts. I made two 9×13 cakes (1 chocolate & … Read more
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
