We baked two chocolate cakes two weeks early and put them in the freezer. Then we baked a round vanilla cake with pink food coloring for the top layer. The frosting was homemade, we made one batch with a recipe of food network then another batch made of powdered sugar. We frosted the entire cake … Read more
I made this for my daughter’s 9th Birthday – she was big into fairies! This was a large tall cake that I made in sponge. The pillars were made by stacking sponge discs onto each other over wooden BBQ skewers and ice cram cones for the towers dusted blue. I added flags to the tops … Read more
I wanted to make a Castle Birthday Cake for my daughter’s birthday as it had a princess theme. This is the first time I tried it out. It took me about half a day to bake all the cake layers. I baked 2 large rectangular layers and 2 round 9 inch layers and stacked them … Read more
This is a basic for very effective Castle Cake Idea that was reasonably simple to make. The main cake is chocolate sponge filled with chocolate buttercream. The turrets are made from mini rolls stacked together. It was all covered in white icing, and decorated with flowers made from blossom cutters, and vines. These are all … Read more
I made this Castle Cake for my goddaughter’s fourth birthday. The first thing I did was bake the bottom cake layers for the castle. I made them in a 10 inch square pan. I needed three layers to achieve the correct height of 5 inches. It was a hazelnut sponge cake recipe from the Godiva … Read more
My daughter decided she had to have a princess Castle Birthday Cake for her fourth birthday. I had made a few cakes decorated like her favorite cartoon characters, that she just loved! I Googled cakes for an idea of where to start. When I found this site I fell in love! I enjoy making cakes … Read more
For my 17th birthday, I decided to have a ‘Harry Potter’ themed party, a Hogwarts Birthday Cake included! It was the combined effort of both my mum and my aunt and lots of advice and titivating from me. Mum cooked three red velvet cakes in different sized cake tins – in decreasing sizes. She bought … Read more
The bases of these types of castle cakes is a double layer square cake, and then on top of that I put a 4-inch round cake, and at the very top, a tiny cake baked in a large muffin tin. I doweled them so they would not fall over! I frosted them all with pink … Read more
I placed clear gel around the castle to represent water around it (not blue as it was not an ocean). I tinted coconut in green and spread around to resemble the natural surroundings. The door and bridge to the castle are 2 graham crackers and the hinges are 2 strands of spaghetti covered with matching … Read more
Long story short, for fun some other Moms and I took the Wilton courses offered at the local craft store and I improved upon my original design thanks to some hints I learned in class. This cake used a two-layer 6-inch round for the top, a two-layer 10-inch square for the bottom, and about 10 … Read more
