This is a Disney Princess Castle Birthday Cake made for a little girl’s eleventh birthday. It is a two tiered cake on a single 16 inch square cake which was used for the base. The base layer was covered with green butter cream icing to resemble a grassy area. The base of the castle is … Read more
I made this Disney Princess cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. Since it was only my second time making fondant, I had some trouble with it tearing and ended up with a couple of places that needed some work. Overall, however, it was a hit at her party and she just loved it. The bottom … Read more
I started by making a 9×13 inch cake and then made a regular size loaf pan cake and two small loaf pan cakes. I cut the top off the cakes to make them lay evenly. I cut the ends off of the regular loaf pan and put them aside. I then prepared to decorate. I … Read more
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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