Coolest Castle Cake

This castle cake was made for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I looked at lots of images of castle cakes from this site for inspiration before planning this one.

The cake is made from two round sponges – an 8 inch vanilla one topped off with a 6 inch chocolate one. I had planned to cover the cake board in the same pink icing used on the cake but was worried that I didn’t have enough so instead I covered the cake board with some iridescent cellophane wrapping.

I bought pre-coloured pale pink fondant icing from a local cake decorating shop along with some artificial pink flowers, a writing icing pen and some edible glitter. I cut out the door shape and made some grooves in it using a knife and then painted down the grooves with pink food colouring.

I also cut out a strip of icing and curled up the edges to make a scroll and when it was dry I wrote the birthday message on it using the edible ink pen. For candle holders I made three toadstools shaping them by hand and painting on some spots. The turrets were different lengths of cardboard tube from a kitchen roll covered in icing and topped with ice-cream cornets which had been dipped in melted white chocolate coloured with pink food colouring.

I dusted all the key features in the edible glitter to make it look magical. The children loved it and because it was home-made it tasted good too.

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