Birthday Cakes

Princess Castle Cake

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2010-07-07 17:20:10

Kids Birthday Cakes

Princess Castle Cake

A castle cake was a dream cake for me. I’ve seen so many princess castle cake ideas. And now I decided to try to make one of my own home made castle cakes. I certainly wanted to go with pink and purple colours for my castle birthday cake for girls.

Normally I make all the birthday cake decorations edible, this time I still sticked to my rules, but added a little toy princess tiara as a not edible cake decoration. It added a princessy look and was a very good cake decorating idea for such princess castle birthday cake.

The most work was done on the castle cake towers. I made them with ice-cream cones, marshmallow fondant and coloured sugar. I didn’t want to use any plastic castle cake kits. I wanted to make a real cake with sweet edible decorations. For the first time I tried colouring sugar. It is so easy and so handy for so many novelty birthday cake decorating ideas.

To colour sugar you will need a plastic bag, white sugar and food colouring. I used gel food colouring this time, but I think liquid or powder ones would be good as well. You put sugar and a drop of food colouring in the plastic bag and blow a little air in it and close tightly. If your bag is filled with air it will be a lot easier to shake the sugar. Shake your sugar until it reaches the colour you wanted. With gel colouring shaking may not work. In that case let the air out and keeping the bad closed just rub the bag with sugar between your palms. It worked for me.

I wanted not only to make castle cake but also to create a fairytale picture placing some fondant cake decorations around the princess birthday castle cake on the cake board. I made fondant trees, fondant animals and fondant butterflies.

One of the new cake decorating techniques I also used this time was making a pond looking like a real one. I used edible candy gel which I bought in a supermarket. It is very thick and doesn’t leak. It made pond water look like real water.

Altogether this novelty princess castle birthday cake turned out very detailed, pretty and sweet.

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Comments (5)

Karin (07/09/2010)

Comment: Dear Marina, this cake is fantastic. You will always be better. So many details, so many tiny pieces and put each in love, one can see that. A great compliment from Rainer, too. He could not believe that this really is a cake you can eat. But it is too good to eat! Go on in this way. We look forward to the cake that you will create when we will visit you in Sidney one day :-)

AlexL (07/09/2010)

Comment: This princess cake was for our small princess and it really made her happy!!! A whole design as well as all details of the cake were very delicate. All kids (and not only kids) were enjoying the look and the taste of this masterpiece. The cake was delicious and many of us kept small parts of this cake for memory. Thanks a million to the creator.

May Mitchell (07/23/2010)

Comment: Oh my goodness - this cake is amazing - and the detail is incredible! This would have taken hours? So wonderful - love the little frog and little girly aspects - well done :-)

Aleisha (08/16/2010)

Comment: Wow - what a great cake. I have one question, how did you make your lower half of the towers?

Marina (08/16/2010)

Comment: Hi Aleisha, thanks for the nice comment. for the lower parts of the towers I used edible ice-cream cups. The ones that are smaller in size comparing to the cones and they are round, wider at the top and narrower at the bottom. I put two cones together connecting bottom parts together with a little bit of icing. Then I just covered the whole piece with marshmallow fondant.