I am not looking forward to this but my Step-Daughter asked for a castle cake for her birthday. When she asked for one I thought of Debbie Brown type cake, not Wilton plastic. She said, "No it's the one with all the thingys" 
I love that everything, short of the board, on my cakes is edible. But it's what she asked for. I always make the cake THEY want. I looked at it and it looks like overkill to me. Maybe I'll just use a few of the turrets and nix the thingy over the door. Anyone out there who can give me some pointers on this thing? I saw a thread about drilling out the bottoms. Can you then just stuck the drilled out turret into the cake? Is this thing a total PITA? TIA
Elle
Well no, not everything is edible, but I think it's really pretty. My daughter saw it and just -had- to have it (the cover castle) for her birthday. So I made it, everyone thought it was gorgeous. I've never gotten so many compliments on a cake as I did that one and everyone knew that some parts were plastic, they certainly didn't think less of it for use of plastic
parts. there's a pic of it in my photos. In fact, one of her cousins immediately started begging me to do one for her birthday.
If *I* can do it, anyone who is experienced can certainly do it. The biggest PITA part for me was making all the tiny flowers (like I said, she wanted the one on the box, EXACTLY like the picture, which has hundreds of teeny fondant flowers). But even that wasn't that big a deal. It was my first time using dowels too (I used the plastic ones) which have to be attached to some of the turrets with melted chocolate, but even that wasn't very hard. I attached the outer turrets with RI and they stuck just fine. Even transporting it didn't harm it, which is amazing since it was the DH who
transported it (alone). Drilling out the bottom of the turrets and pushing them into the cake is going to make them very short and stubby though, IMHO.
I didn't have to drill anything. It did take me a long time to make, but I'm an amateur and I'm sure someone who is more experienced could make it much faster. Even I will be able to do it faster next time since now I've already done it once and know what to expect.
You can do it! I did post in another thread about drilling out the bottom of the turrets....they were MUCH sturdier that way! The first one I made was not made w/ drilled out turret bottoms (only the ones on the very top of my cakes were drilled out), and it was not near as sturdy as the Cinderella Castle cake I made. That one had to travel 1.5 hours away and never budged!
Once the bottoms are drilled out, you do not just stick that into the cake (that would look stubby), but rather, I used wooden dowels and glued them to the inside of the tower with candy melts and then stuck the dowel into the cake (down to the cake board of the first tier) and it was measured so the turret rested right on top of the cake without having to be pushed into cake but maybe a 1/4".
Here are some pics!
I did a wedding cake with that set, but covered the towers with fondant - a much more elegant look IMO!
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=810183
Debbie Brown et al use gumpaste or pastillage, sometimes over towel rolls, for their towers - which aren't exactly edible either, so I don't see the difference! Definitely get a dowel drilled into the bottom of those towers though - my wedding cake was a nightmare and it would have been so much better with an inner dowel. Good luck!
Duh! The turrets would be very stubbed off ih I stuffed them in the cake! More mini castle. 
cambo i see that you didn't use all the turrets or the rooftop. That was my plan. Looks less busy. JMO She is 9 so less is not more in her eyes. If it's big and sparkles, she wants it. HAAHAHA! BonJoviBabe, I love the dust on your turret tops! I was thinking of pink sanding sugar but I really like that! Cholmberg, yours is pink! That's what she's asked for! If I find myself needing help you girls may find a pm or two or three from me. 
Thanks! The party is not til Oct 6th. A couple weeks of R&R till castle time!
Elle
I just bought the wilton set too. We will be celebrating my friend's granddaughter's birthday at their beach house and she wants the castle. My husband's birthday is the same day! I wonder how happy he'll be sharing that princess cake??? Thank goodness he loves seeing little kids happy and he has a sense of humor.
Maybe I'll have to stick a Captain Hook figure on it.
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