Hi there cake addicts
I am thinking of entering a cake show in April. The theme is Castles in the Airie, A Renaissance Faire. Any ideas? This is my first and don't have a clue for design.
Thanks to all
Cindy

just a though, as I dont know how detailed and how much work you want to put into this...but since it is a chance to show off your work I am assuming a lot of work. So how about one of those castles on top of a cake that looks like a winding mountain and if you are good at molding a knight on a steed going up the cobblestone road that winds around the mountain?


edited to add:
ooohh...or what about borrowing advens ( i think) jester in a box kinda idea...maybe just doing the jester?

Sounds like a fun theme. I did a castle cake for my daughter's birthday this past October. It was HUGE. It's in my photos, but the pictures don't really show the size. It weighed more than my 3 y/o and was half as big as she was.

I really would like to help, but can someone tell me what "Airie" means! Non of my dictionaries has this word inside ...

airie...the OLD/Middle English word for "air"

(think Chaucer...remember his Cantebury Tales?)

a fanciful mispelling of aerie (noun)

Definitions:

1. bird of prey's nest: the nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, usually built in a high inaccessible place


2. secure building: a building, especially a stronghold, in a high inaccessible place


[15th century. Via medieval Latin aeria < Old French airie < Latin area "level ground"]

(leave it to an English teacher!!!!)

So maybe a castle in the sky?

I did a cake for my daughter's birthday (but unfortunately cannot find a decent picture of it anywhere), where I covered a round cake with white fondant. Then I marbled "clouds" with blue, placed them on the cake and painted silver stars randomly. For a cake topper, I molded a castle out of white chocolate. It looked really cool -- I got the idea from a show on he Food Network about Disney wedding cakes.

Don't bother trying to find a 3-d castle candy mold, though. It would seem they don't exist. So I just made do with an extra large mold.

Good luck!

That is a cool castle!

I don't know if this helps but every year they do a renaissance festival where I live. It runs for a month and every weekend is a different theme. One of the most popular things they do is a living chess match. they also do jousting, jesters running around, dragons. How about making a cake like a catapolt. I hope this helps

There is also a fantastic RenFaire of which I am a regular goer (Yes a Sci-Fi Geek and a Rennie, go figure) in Maryland. www.rennfest.com

Come visit, make cake

I can get you som faire tastic photos if you need em for inspiration. Let Me Know

There's some cool stuff in the gallery here. I especially like the shield down at the bottom of this page. Simple but very cool. I'd take that one to a ren faire myself.

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-photos_thumb_32.html

Thank you Doug for the information and amazing to see that you all know Neuschwannstein. I haven´t been there yet, but it´s one my list for this years summer vacation.

Back to the topic: Maybe a castle on a big, fluffy cloud with lots of colorfull flags in the windows, dressed for a turney.

Have a picture of the Neuschwannstein castle on my wall-lots of German steins, etc. and candles also-It is one of prettiest castles-and pretty does not do it justice-it is truly magnificant!! What a beautiful inspiration! Post pics when you do it!!

Freedsbakery.com has a nice castle cake in their gallery. It might be a little different to do a sheet cake and then construct the castle of color-flow panels, like this one.

I'm thinking about entering the same show but I asked if our cakes have to be that theme and was told no they don't! I would imagine sticking to the theme will definately score more points though! I wouldn't want to be over looked!!! I too have no clue as to what to make!!!!! I'm stumped!!!!!


Amy