It is nearly a universal truth that every little girl will have a castle birthday cake at some point during her childhood.
Most cakes will be made by a family member, but do not worry it is a fun and fairly painless task. And the cake can be far from perfect and the birthday girl will still think it is a magical cake.
If there will be a large crowd at the party, make princess cupcakes to go along with the cake.
Ingredients
- Two cake mix boxes plus needed ingredients
- Buttercream icing – recipe at Wilton.com
- Five sugar cones
- Seven ice cream cones
- Two vanilla almond bark
- Colored sugar
- Decorative tips – round tip, star tip and basket weave tip
- Spring pan
- 9 X 7 rectangle pan
- Food coloring
Making the Cake
- Bake one cake in the spring pan and the other in the rectangle pan.
- Let the cakes cool completely.
- While the cakes are cooling, make the buttercream icing. Tint the icing the color of the castle or leave it as it is for a white castle.
- Cut the rectangle cake in half. This cake will be used to make the top part of the castle. Place one half on top of the other with icing in between to secure them together.
- Cut enough off of the top of the round cake in order to make a level surface for the cake in step 3 to set on. Put frosting on the top of the round cake and then place the square cake on top. Frost the entire cake.
- Melt the almond bark and coat each ice cream cone and sugar cone with the chocolate. Let the chocolate completely harden and then coat again to get a smoother look. After the second coat is applied to the sugar cones, but before it dries, roll the cones in the colored sugar.
- The ice cream cones will be used for the towers and the sugar cones will make the roof of each tower. Allow all of the cones to harden.
- Make two tall towers by sticking two cones together. Turn one cone upside down and put the other right side up on top. Add extra chocolate between the two cones and put a toothpick inside to connect them. When the chocolate hardens it will act as glue to keep the cones together. The other cones will be towers on their own.
- To attach the sugar cones, put icing around the rim of the ice cream cone and dip the bottom of the sugar cone in the melted chocolate. Set the sugar cone inside the ice cream cones and smooth the icing around the edge.
- Place the towers around the round cake. They can be secured to the surface with melted chocolate as well. Take one of the single cone towers and stick it on top of the square cake. Cut a round hole in the cake ½ inch deep, large enough for the cone to set in. If there is space between the cake and cone, fill it in with icing.
- Tint a portion of the icing green and a portion a color to match or complement the colored sugar. With the green icing, make shrubs around the bottom of the castle and along the bottom of the square cake using the star decorative tip.
- With the writing tip, draw windows on the square cake. Dots can also be placed in the green icing to look like flowers.
- Draw an arch where the door will be. Use the basket weave tip to fill the doorway in.
There are many different ways to make a castle cake and this is a fairly easy and inexpensive way to do it.
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