Coolest Simple Castle Cake

This cake is a modified version of those described in this site. It was created for my 3 year old who loves castles. We were not having a party and it was just going to be the immediate family and pictures!! My younger daughter’s birthday was a few days earlier and we still had cake leftover from that! (It was a Carousel cake adapted from this site also)

My objective was to mark the occasion without having too much cake left over…again.

Building on the ideas I found here I built it as follows:

I used a 9X13 inch cake pan and cut the cake into three tiers. I used frosting between each tier, and kept all 3 layers in place with two wooden skewers. The pillars are flat based ice cream cones stuck together with melted marshmallows. I used warmed apricot jam to stick the pink sugar crystals to the cone heads.

The chocolate cake was refrigerated for 30mins before I frosted it (buttercream) so there were less crumbs.

I frosted the tiered cake then the cone pillars. I used a spoon to cut the rounded shape off the corners of the tiered cake and then slid the pillars in. Next I mounted the sugar cones and then the gumball flags. The flags were made of paper and held in place to the toothpick with frosting. I stuck these into white gumballs in which I premade holes so that they could sit atop the cones easily.

I decided to use marshmallows to line the edges to stick with the pink theme and used wafers for windows and doors and put them on last to stay fresh.

My daughter simply loved it! I hope you do too.