Shelby's Castle
Castle cake done in bc for a girls 15th birthday, her party colors were pink and silver so pretty much the whole cake with the exception of the green leaves is pink or silver or white per her request. Silver vines are royal brushed with silver luster dust. Thanks for looking
I love your cake. How did you cover the tower peaks?
Just melted white choc. (colored pink) with sanding sugar....originally I did pink sugar but it was a darker pink than they wanted so I put more choc. and then white sugar and it was the paler pink I was after, so there's a couple layers of choc. and sugar, but wayyyy faster than fondant I did that once.ugh!!!
Your castle cake is very beautiful and so perfect. I have one due next week and I'm very nervous. Can you tell me how you get your towers to stay in place outside of the cake. Thanks!
sure, I did one of these before and didn't have GREAT luck with the towers......this time they weren't budging, I traveled with the whole cake assembled minus the top three towers on the very top of the cake....
all I did was take a drill with a bit that was 1/4" and drilled holes into the bottoms of all the towers. then once I measure them for size I sharpened the ends of the dowels. The ones right on the cake board were done the same way the dowels went all the way to the top of the towers but only stuck out the bottom maybe a half inch or so and I held the tower up and hammered it into the cake board then pulled it out and put royal icing a gob of it into the hole in the cake board and a little on the dowel
then when I stuck it back in the hole the excess royal icing squished out the sides and I just wiped it clean around the base of the tower with my finger the same way you would do with caulking. Then once it set it wasn't going anywhere........oh and by the way I hot glued the dowels inside of the towers.......I'm hoping I'll be able to wash them and reuse, but if I gotta cut em' all again next time that's fine too......it didn't take that long! I just put some hot glue on the bottom of the towers
around the dowel rods and did the same thing....kinda smeared it clean with my finger around the dowel rod sealing the dowel rod in there.......you probably don't NEED to glue them but I'm overly cautious with cakes lol The last thing I need is a tower to fall off!!
Thanks a million for all that info! :)
you are so welcome.......I'm so glad that it worked out for you too!!! Now if we can just get Wilton to drill the holes and secure the dowels lol :wink: