Anyone have any pics of sand castle cakes...preferably wedding cakes? I am trying to get ideas for mine. I don't want anything kiddish. We are going to get married and Jamaica and having the reception in the states when we get back.

I did one a few years ago! We served it with a little garden spade beside it for the "first cut"! SO cute....


Go to my website at www.marmaladecakecompany.com, click on the NON-TRADITONAL WEDDING CAKES section, click on the PHOTOS, click the pink "MORE PHOTOS" button at the bottom to get to the second page...and the Sandcastle Cake is the 2nd photo in the top row!

(I will try to post this photo later, but I'm not at home right now!)

http://www.mikesamazingcakes.com/wedding.html
Mike has a really cute one in his wedding gallery.

You might also want to check out this post
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-3113-sand.html+castle

I have seen that cake on Mike's site. And I really like it. But I am not sure how to do the towers and the tops (block things)whatever they are called LOL. I am making this myself but am kinda new to cakes too.

If you are interested, I think you could use the instructions that Debbie Brown gives for her Persian Palace cake. I looks really similar to the sand castle. Just go to this link http://www.amazon.com/dp/1853918490/?tag=cakecentral-20 and select "Search inside this book". Keep going through the book until you get to the Palace.

I am trying to think of an easy way to do the top of the towers. Maybe you could use some candy clay tinted to about the same color as the buttercream to make some squares. Pipe buttercream around the top of the tower with tip 47 and insert the squares into the buttercream. Before you insert the squares maybe you could get some of the crushed vanilla wafers to stick to one side of the squares.

Go to the clay section of your hobby store. They have square cutters and also texture sheets. You might be able to use a sand texture sheet to imprint texture into your buttercream.

Williams Sonoma has a sandcastle mold that you could put on the top of a tiered cake. Look at my photos for the mold.
It works great and really looked like a sandcastle.