I would love some advice on this as well. I will be making a castle cake on Sept. 9th for my daughter and have no clue where to start! If you end up getting directions from someone could you send them my way?
I did a castle cake a few years ago. Unfortunately it was "pre-digicam" and I don't have a scanner, so I don't have the pic on my computer. Anyway, I made 2 9X13 pans and cut each one to 9X9 size. Torted each cake and stacked them. Cut the scraps down to small squares for the four corners, and frosted 4 icecream cones for the peeks on top of squares, used white chocolate candy bars for the door and windows, frosted graham cracker for the bridge and made a jello jiggler moat around it. Not exactly a fancy multilevel castle cake, but my daughter loved it! (My kids always love to pick off the candy and stuff off the cakes when they eat it, so I use alot of these). I don't know if this helps any, but thought I'd throw it in there! lol
Mine was a first attempt and nothing at all complicated, but I got loads of suggestions and instructions by searching the forums. There have been a lot of threads on castle cakes and turrets, in particular.
One recommendation - give yourself plenty of time to have fun and enjoy it!
Good luck!
I have a few castle cakes in my photos and I would be more than happy to share the directions if you are interested. The very first picture I ever posted on CC was my daughter's birthday cake after Wilton I, no fondant training, designed on my own.....what the heck was I thinking?
I have a much simpler one as well called "Jia's castle". Let me know if you like them. I would be glad to help anyone as I have gotten so much help from everyone else around here.
you can stack up your sheet cakes, or use square pans to make the bottom. The amount of time you spend cutting pieces for windows, bridges, doors, drawbridges, pennants, etc. is up to you. The two on my page were for each of my DDs when the turned 6, so it took me about 3 days making the pieces and such.
For the one I used ice cream cake cones of the bottom, then stacked the sugar cone inside it after i had run icing over it. I just used royal icing and stuck them down into the top cake- I should have put a dowl through them, but at the time I hadn't really done much of that yet. You can make stones on the walls by either piping large balls, like with a tip 12, or you can make rocks out of fonant- something the kids usually enjoy helping with. The waterfall down the side of my blue castle I did blue BC and then put piping gel over it, the road is made with graham cracker crumbs. The carriage and horse for colorflow I got online. I can't find it now, but if you want it, I can email it to you. Just make the cakes the size you want, and then work from there. I know my duaghters dictated most of what they wanted on the cake, so it didn't take much thought for me 
The window on top of the blue castle has my DDs picture in it with edible image!
I did a castle last fall....photo in my gallery if you'd like to see it. I didn't have directions, just looked at what others had done then jumped right in. I used two six-sided pans for the bottom cake...tiered a 6" round on top of that and doweled as for a tiered cake. Used ice cream cones end to end (glued with royal icing) for the turets...then put sugar cones upside down for the pointy tops. Iced the basic cake with BC and after it crusted, made brick like indentions with a table knife. Used a round mirror fOr the base...looked like water............. Just look at the photo. It tells the story. GOOD LUCK!
Hi,
What are fellow members for if not do the searching....
I did a Googling and found two best sites with directions and pictures on how to castle.
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50113
http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.proicer/cakepict/sandcastle1.jpg
If you use the castle bundt pan it would be easier than cutting and pasting.
www.ochef.com has castle step by step.
Good luck.
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