Disney Princesses Castle Cake 166
by Ashley Rae
(Salt Lake City, UT)
Disney Princesses Castle Cake
For my daughter's 4th birthday, she wanted a princess cake. I decided to attempt a castle for the princesses. Before making it, I did a google image search for "castle cake" and I implemented a few ideas I got from the different pictures of cakes I saw on there, and also ones from this website.
I used a 12x18 cake pan and a 9" round (I should have used both of the rounds for the middle part to make it taller, but I let my daughter "frost" the 2nd 9" round, so it was un-usable), and then I cut the 12x18 cake into a 12x12 square.
The pillars are 4 regular ice cream cones upright, then 4 sugar cones upside down, covered in marshmallow fondant (I made the fondant 2 nights before). I used buttercream icing for the cake/vines/flowers/grass. I used fondant for the pink ribbon around the circle, the door/bridge/windows, the pillars and also for the water.
The white decorative thingies I made with royal icing and silver dragees a few nights prior to making the cake (if you do this, make PLENTY of extra ones because they're very fragile).
The princesses were ones my daughter already had. She was happy to help put them on the castle.
This took me well over 8 hours, so I'm glad I planned it in advance. It didn't turn out quite as well as I had wanted, but hey- it's my first fancy cake, and it was still the hit of the party. Oh - and my daughter loved it, which is the most important part!
