Would anyone be willing to share instructions on a castle cake? I would like to try one this week and i am not really sure wear to start. I have ideas rolling around in my head but i could use a push in the right direction.

Thanks
Cady

Do a search on castles in the galleries, you should get quite a few ideas that way.

There are so many versions of castles!. Do you have an idea of which way you want to go? I did one where it sat on top of the cake as a cake topper. I sed a square tissue box as the base covered with gumpaste. The turrets were paper towel tubes covered with gumpaste, then glued on with royal icing. The corners were cut out rectangles that laid on a dowel rod to get the rounded shape and then glued on with royal icing. The flowers and vines on the castle were royal icing. It sat on a 10" cake and the flowers on top of the cake were silk (I hadn't learned how to make flowers yet.) My daughter kept the castle for a keepsake.

The cake is in my photos.

Here's some instructions I found online for a simple castle cake. By looking at these, and the pics in the gallery, I'm sure you'd be able to create any type castle you want, the construction is all similar. Looking forward to seeing a pic!

http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/cookingschool_castlecake_09282002.xml&catref=C322

Happy Baking,
Beth

I did one- sheet cake with a 6 in. on top in the middle used cans to make cake towers. But you can look at all the photos for idea's. I took a little form a lot of different cakes to make mine. Good Luck you can do it. my grandaughter loved it.

I agree with Kittiscakes - look through the gallery til you find what you're looking for and pm the maker -most of us love to share info and help others - after all they often help us too!!!!

momsandrave--thanks for the castle directions

Thanks so much everyone!!!
momsandrave thanks for the website!!

Cady!!

Glad to help!

I am also making a castle cake for March 11. My granddaughter wants Barbie Pegasus Castle. I wanted to make the turrets out of cake but couldn't find any pans until dinner tonight. I opened a can of asparagus sprears. The cans are tall and narrow. Woo Hoo !! Castle turrets. I just have to go buy more asparagus. I will post pics tomorrow. Good luck Cady. Be sure to post pics.

I made a castle cake a little while back. I too didn't know where to start so I looked through all of the castle cakes, and printed off some of the ones I wanted inspiration from, and then I pm'd some of the to get tips. Worked beautifully. Seeing as it was one of my first cakes, I learned a lot and would to things differently. The one thing I would do differently for sure is I would cover my towers with fondant instead of bc.

Good luck!

Miah

With the castle cakes if you leaves thetowers hollow..you can fill them with the childs favorite sweets...

If making the tower out of cake just bake a square cake and use a round cutter to get your shape and stack or you could ude mini rolls.....small swiss roll cakes....

Must admit keep getting orders for the castle but they all want them hollow filled with sweets.....just working on one now an undersea castle cake..so abit different

Here's the culpitt instructions. Be warned they make cutters etc. so they use a lot of them.

http://www.culpitt.com/how-to.php?page=151

Thanks everyone for your input and hints on making a castle cake. It is helping me a lot also. Bu, also making me not sure what effect I want to use.
This is the beauty of making cakes for my best friend though. She gives me the basics of what she wants, such as cake and icing type, and then gives me complete creative control on what I want to try.She ordered a welcome home for her husband, so I'm making my first castle cake for it. It's going to say"A man's home is his castle". I hope it turns out good.