Coolest Castle Cake

I made this castle cake for a 1st birthday party where the birthday girl was the “princess”. The cake base is a two layer 1/4 sheet, half sour cream white and half chocolate. The small top layer is a 6-inch round white cake. I filled and covered the cakes with pink buttercream.

After the buttercream crusted, I used an impression mat to create the look of a brick wall. The towers had been made earlier by “gluing” together two ice cream cones bottoms. The towers were covered with white chocolate. The turrets were sugar cones also covered in white chocolate and rolled in pink sugar. I piped royal icing vines on the towers.

The other decorations-the doors, top of the castle walls and the tops of the towers-were all rolled fondant which were cut to shape. I did use an impression mat to make the doors appear to be of wood. I trimmed a little away from the corner of the cakes so the towers would fit correctly, and I anchored them with toothpicks I ran at an angle through the towers.

The rocks around the towers were chocolate-covered rock candy set in royal icing to help support the towers.

I finished with piping buttercream vines on the castle walls.