Hi all! I want to make a castle cake for someone tomorrow and have been looking at them in the galleries. My question is, how do I do the turrets? I've seen some use paper towel holders or hollow plastic dowels. How do I get them into the cake w/o them falling over or tilting? Also I'll be using bc only so do I need to do any thing different when I coat the turrets? Thanks for the help.
Amy
I did a castle with buttercream, but I used sugarpaste on the towers and royal icing to "glue" it to the cake board. Anyway, you could still use royal icing to "glue" the tower if your towers are sitting on the board next to the cake. If your towers are on the cake (two of mine were) I stuck thin dowels into the cake (so that if they fell over they woudn't fall far) and then "glued" them onto the cake with buttercream and a border of buttercream around the tower base. Once it set, it stayed pretty nicely.
My castle was 99.5% buttercream. I would use standard ice cream cones turned upside down, so the big part is on the bottom and just do a thick ring of buttercream to stick it into. Then you can 'glue' with buttercream and upsidedown sugar cone and cover that, too, with buttercream. This will give you height for a turet, and be quite stable to transport since the sugar cone should overlap the base of the regular cone. Have fun! I only had a couple of hours; can't wait to do another one when I can commit at least 4.
tonenia- If you go to the galleries and look under fantasy/gothic/fairtytale, many of the decriptions will tell you how each person made their tower. Most people use paper towel rolls and either ice them with buttercream or cover them in fondant/sugarpaste. There are a couple of other creative ways to make them too - happy searching! If you see a castle you like, most people are happy to share their methods!!
I'm new to this castle thing..... Can someone please tell me how you make the round columns. Are they cake or something else. Is there a certain pan needed to make them?
Hi tonenia,
I just made one on Saturday, it's in my gallery. For the towers, just use royal icing to 'glue' the bottoms of 2 small ice cream cones together. And then use it to set the pointy sugar cone on top of that stack. I cut the corners out of my 13 x 9 bottom cake, and just set them in there. The cake looks really amateur [because I am one lol] but it worked great.
Hope that helps a little. 
Here is a link with full construction directions and pictures for a Castle Cake:
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/cookingschool_castlecake_09282002.xml
Good Luck! 
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