Hi --

I have been asked to make a princess castle cake for my niece for this weekend. I would like to model it after the one attached to this post ((this cake is from www.teacakesandteddybears.com located in Massachusetts)).

How would i make the top tier? Is it individual cylindrical cakes? Is it carved? Please help, because i really like this design, but can't figure out how i'd make the top.

Thanks in advance!!

Jay

I know a lot of people use paper towel tubes to make the towers and sugar ice cream cones for the tops. Possibly a small square on the top carved to fit the tubes?

Maybe you could bake the cakes in soup cans. Then they use inverted icecream cones for the pointy roofs.

That's what it looks like to me.

Good luck with it!

The purple is upside down ice cream cones. The towers could be any number of things. If you don't need the extra servings I would use paper towel inserts covered with fondant. The other things it could be are: donuts stacked on a dowel, cake baked in a can, oreos stacked with royal inbetween and covered...you get the idea.

It looks like there are 3 cylinder cakes, plus a carved square in between. You can make the cylinders in soup cans, or you can make them from a stack of cookies gued together with some buttercream... add an inverted ice cream cone (covered with BC or fondant), and you're all set!

you ask!!!! Check out the times of the answers! LOL

WOW!!!

I had no idea I'd get that many responses!!!

Thanks!!

I guess what got me is the section where the "door" is ... it almost looks like its carved to fit right in between the towers.

That website has about 5-8 different versions of this same cake, with little differences between them ... but they all look fairly uniform on the top.

I've never baked a cake in a can, so not sure how I would even go about doing that!!

I guess that if I made the castle out of cardboard covered in fondant, she could conceivably keep it as a momento ..... right?

Wow -- these are the times I wonder what i've gotten myself into!!

There are some post about baking in cans. You could do a forum search. I haven't done it yet, but plan to make a castle this fall.

Wilma