My six-year-old daughter asked to have a Rapunzel Birthday Cake Design this year. She and I searched for ideas together. She decided she wanted a tower and a river on her cake. I told her I would do my best!
I used a 9×13 white cake to start and covered it in green frosting. Next, I made a batch of rice krispie treats and shaped them into the top of the tower and the hill for my daughter’s river. I used the inside of a funnel (covered in cooking spray) to give me the shape I wanted for the roof. I used ice cream cones stuck end to end with chocolate for the base of the tower. The bottom cone was filled with chocolate to weight it down and give a little support to the tower. I rolled fondant onto the cones after covering them in icing (this was my first experience with fondant).
I used rolled up fondant and chocolates that looked like rocks to cover the base of the tower using icing as the “glue.” I secured the tower to the cake with skewers. For the river, I tinted the fondant blue and placed it on the hill of rice krispie treats. I placed a few of the chocolate rocks near and in the river. I added some depth to the river by mixing blue food coloring and water together. I lightly brushed it onto the blue fondant giving it a wet look. The top of the tower needed to look like Rapunzel’s home, so I covered it in different colored fondant. I cut small rectangles (three different colors that my daughter picked) and I started the shingles at the bottom and added one row at a time using frosting to adhere them to the roof. The same process worked to hold the fondant on the rest of the tower top. I secured the top of the tower with frosting and skewers to the cake.
I covered the visible skewers with frosting, so they looked like vines and leaves. The fondant flowers were added by my daughter. I piped vines, grass and leaves onto the tower and cake. I purchased each of the characters from a toy store and placed them on the cake just before it was time to sing! This is the second year in a row that I’ve done my daughter’s birthday cake and I am hooked. I can’t wait for next year already!
Related cakes:
Coolest Rapunzel Birthday Cake for 7-Year Old Girl 
Coolest Tangled Tower Birthday Cake 
Amazing Rapunzel’s Tower Cake 
Coolest Rapunzel Cake 
Coolest Rapunzel Tower Cake 
Coolest Rapunzel Tangled Tower Birthday Cake 
Coolest Rapunzel Birthday Cake Design 
Cool Homemade Rapunzel Tangled Tower Birthday Cake
Great job Mom, sounds like it was a lot of work! Isn’t it so rewarding to do your own cake for your child! I love how them seem so “impressed” with the effort from Mom!
What a cool cake and a dedicated MOM! Awesome job!
Great cake, Mel! I am so proud of your creativity and dedication!
This cake is adorable! You did such a great job!!!
It’s absolutely beautiful. Yay!!!! :-D
My daughter has also requested a Rapunzel cake for her birthday. I’m too cheap (read:broke) to pay someone else to do it, and am an avid DIY-er, but was totally at a loss for this one. Thanks so much for sharing this!!
This is a great cake! I have been doing my kid’s cakes for the last 9 yrs.My friends and family always love what I come up with.I had to do some research for Tangled cake.I didn’t know how to do a tower.Thanks for some ideas!
What a great idea here, I am going to try this as well, Thank you so much for adding this… i was looking for a Rapunzel cake and this is the best one I have seen… My daughter turns 4 next month, so i dont have much time to plan… Last year was the first year I made her cake, and yes it is very rewarding to see them enjoy what you’ve made for them… thanks again
I cannot find words to tell you, how awesome your cake is, I just love it.
My daughter is four next week, and of course she loves Rapunzel, but I have no such skills to do this beautiful piece of art.I bought her Rapunzel figurines and hope to do a lot of flowers and put her(Rapunzel) in the middle do a lot of purple and pink probably.