Pink Castle Cake

I made this pink castle cake for my niece’s 6th birthday party, but it was a hit with all the adults as well as the kids! As you can see it is pink.

The princesses were bought from Wal-Marts Bakery all for $4.00, it’s called the cake topper set. I used two cake mixes and I think around 3 cans of frosting. the first layer was just a 9×11 rectangle baking pan, the two other layers were circle pans (one average size and the other a 6″ round purchased at the wedding section of Wal-mart.

I divided one cake mix between the two rounds. I frosted and stuck them all together. the towers are from ideas I gathered from this site. they are regular ice cream cones stacked one on top of the other and frosted and the turrets are sugar cones also frosted and covered in sugar sprinkles.

I piped in windows, designs and just a ring around all layers for decoration. I used gum drops for the top and to hold the flags at the top of each tower. The flags are just party toothpicks with “Happy Birthday” and the B-Day girls names printed on them. Then I just glued them to the picks. (they are the only non edible things on the cake.)

I couldn’t find blue gel frosting so I just mixed some up for the moat and added swiss fish (because “Ariel has to have fish to talk to” in the words of the birthday girl). The grass is shredded coconut dyed green. The drawbridge is graham crackers.

*** Things I would do different next time:

1) use three cake mixes to make the bottom layer taller. The door and bridge were much smaller than planned.

2) Find some candy that looks like rocks (looked everywhere…)

3)frost all three layers together rather than separately.