I made this 3rd Birthday Princess Castle Cake for my granddaughter’s 3rd birthday. I got my idea from looking online at a lot of other castles cakes and came up with this idea. For the main part of the castle, I made 2, 12×15 cakes and 2, 7inch rounds cakes. I covered these with purple … Read more
I baked this Dora Pink Castle Birthday Cake in a square pan. I used buttercream icing with sprinkles on top and marshmallows are the bricks. Dora is a figurine and four ice cream cones on top. Ice cream cones can be frosted and have sprinkles.
For my daughter’s 4th birthday we did a princess theme. Being that it is VERY popular I was looking for ideas for a Disney Princess Castle Cake. I found several good ideas on this website and with that knowledge and my own ideas this is what I came up with. The cakes are just out … Read more
My daughter wanted a Cinderella’s Castle cake for her 4th birthday. I used a 6 inch round Wilton pan and a 12 inch round Wilton pan. I made 2 cakes in each pan (a total of 4 were stacked). I also used the Wilton castle kit. I did the turrets a few days before I … Read more
This Castle cake is a 10inch square with an 8 inch square rich fruit cake stacked on top made from my own recipe. It is iced with ivory sugar paste. The turrets and towers are all heavy gum paste and modeled wrapped around some kitchen roll tubes. I iced the trailing ivy and made small … Read more
This Hogwarts Birthday Cake was made for my boyfriend’s 21st birthday. He made a joke saying I should make a Harry Potter cake and I took him seriously and came up with this. This Hogwarts cake has a grand hall and some towers, a courtyard (cardboard not cake), an owlery with owls, Hagrids hut, a … Read more
I didnt want to use ice-cream cones for the roofs, because of the different sizes of the towers, they just wouldn’t have sat properly. So after much researching, I decided to try using normal melted chocolate, which I think worked very well. I made the cone shapes from normal baking paper and then simply spooned … Read more
For the towers I bought Mini Swiss (jam) rolls as it was easier than making them. I made buttercream icing using stork and icing sugar – in the ratio of three parts sugar to one part stork. I coloured this pink. You could colour it grey or blue for a boy’s castle. I bought the … Read more
I started making the cakes in the beginning of the week and froze them. I had to bake about 6 or so cakes so it helped. I bought the 4 boxes of the Duncan Hines cake mix (2 vanilla and 2 devils food)… but I followed a different recipe to make it moister. With the … Read more
I used bamboo barbeque skewers to keep cake in place. I used vanilla frosting but tinted it purple. I used five ice cream cones frosted them and then sprinkled colored sprinkles all over them. I used a white chocolate bar for the door/drawbridge and pink (strawberry vanilla) cookie wafers for the windows. The kids enjoyed … Read more
The shape of the cake was built from one large rectangular cake pan and then one regular sized one. The smaller of the two was then cut into pieces and placed on top (filling between layers with frosting) the bigger section in the middle and the smaller sections on each side. Each side was then … Read more
