How I Made A Castle Cake, With Photos
Decorating By cakesbykitty Updated 6 Mar 2007 , 11:42pm by jen1977
I have been so impressed by all the wonderful castle cakes on this website i decided to design and make my own. I also know I had a lot of questions when i started so I thought i would share what i figured out along the way. This is a castle cake i did for our Cub Scout Pack cake auction (fundraiser) at the annual blue and gold banquet. The base cake is 4 11x15 sheet cakes stacked, the smaller top section is 3 8x8 cakes stacked. I dowelled the entire thing together. After i did my crumb coat I cut out the corners of each one with a circular cookie cutter to help place the turrets. I then iced the cakes in a crusting buttercream (tinted gray) and a brick impression mat was used. I had already done all the fondant work ahead of time in steps and stages to allow for drying and painting... The turrets are wrapping paper tubes covered in fondant tinted gray (I adhered the fondant to the tubes with piping gel), again a brick impression mat was used. The turret tops are sugar cones "painted" with a mix of corn syrup, water and black color gel. All the windows, doors, flags and detail work is fondant either cut from my own designed patterns (you can make these ahead of time) or hand crafted (door knockers). The ivy was piped with a buttercream/piping gel mix with a #3 round tip for the vines and a #67 tip for the leaves. All the gold details are supergold Luster Dust mixed with pure lemon extract. The silver cross bars in the windows are silver Luster Dust mixed with pure lemon extract. The black writing and detailing was done with the same corn syrup mixture from turrets. The entire cake was placed on a 20"x20" board covered in fondant with a cobblestone impression mat used for texture. The castle moat is fondant colored blue, painted with piping gel/vanilla extract mix and sprinkled with edible sugar glitter. This cake measured (base to top of tallest flag) 27" tall and weighed approximately 75 pounds. There was a lot of work ahead of time (about 30 hours), getting all the fondant detail work done, but it actually went together really fast. From the time i started assembling the cake (icing the layers and stacking)to finish time was only about 8 hours! Please feel free to PM with any questions. Have fun!!!!! Kitty PS... i decided to include my sketches and patterns at the end of the pics, if you can decipher my chicken scratch you are welcome to use them!
Just spectacular. Thank your for sharing the details! I would love an opportunity to copy you!!
i just had to bookmark that on my computer, it was too cool. awesome job, that was definitelya labor of love.
This is a really amazing castle did you say this was your first attempt? I to just had a blue and gold banquet and I know this would have sold like crazy but our cakes were only allowed to be decorated by the boy scouts themsleves not that I could do this castle cake even if I were allowed to 
wow truly amazing if you dont mind me asking what did it go for.
Amazing!! Thank you so much for posting your sketches and pics!!
Luckily I did see a post on here suggesting paper towel rolls. thanks all! to answer your brick question... i bought the brick impression mat from sugarcraft.. they have a great assortment of patterns! www.sugarcraft.com
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
T H A N K Y O U !!!!!!!
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any chance you can:
a) enlarge all those drawings and post in template gallery??
b) gussy the whole thing up and send it in as a tutorial!?!?!?
pretty please w/ Belgian chocolate on top?!
i would be happy to... if only i knew how? tell me how and I'm on it! LOL
LOL... also.... to answer your question... no i didn't assemble it on site. My hubby (God bless him and his 3 herniated discs!) carried this sucker from the parking lot, thru a double door, down a hallway (200 feet?), thru 2 more double doors, thru a foyer (stopped for a break) and thru 2 more double doors into the performance center where once we set it on the table it didn't move till someone bought it and took it home! LOL... also keep in mind I am in Alaska, it was below zero and we were walking on ice in the parking area!!!! LOL 
edit that to say hubby and i carried it... no one person could lift it. I can bake a cake but apparently can't speak english or type LOL
GREAT JOB !! i would be happy to... if only i knew how? tell me how and I'm on it! LOL
1) redraw sketches nice and big and clean and sharp (wow -- what a run on) and scan them so they and save as .jpg (best quality)
the follow the instructions given here:
http://cakecentral.com/submit-article.php
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