What Is The Best Way To Make Turrets For A Castle Cake?
Decorating By janicecold Updated 15 Jan 2007 , 8:43pm by Karenelli
I was wondering what is the best way to make turrets and what is the best way of covering them. Do I use fondant or royal icing or something else. This is for my daughters birthday coming up and looking for ideas. Thanks!!
I made mine out of fondant, but I think next time I will use gum paste or a combination of both so they will dry better. I made them a week ahead of time and they still didn't dry enough. I made them on tissue paper rolls/paper towel rolls. I covered them with plastic wrap then dusted them with powdered sugar and wrapped the fondant around them. Because they weren't dry all the way through, when I tried to remove the rolls they started to crack. There is a picture in my photos and you can see I left the rolls in them.
I used ice cream cones and covered them in buttercream.
When I did the castle wedding cake, I used paper towel rolls and Pringles cans topped with ice cream cones, then covered everything in royal icing. I didn't try to remove the rolls because the castle wasn't being eaten.
In my sandcastle cake, I stacked cupcakes and doweled them also topping them with cones. These were just covered with bc icing. They didn't have as nice a finish but they were being consumed.
Good luck with yours.
The easiest turrets are made from either waffle cones alone (upside down on the cake) or a combination of regular sugar cones with waffle cones turned upside down on top of them.
You cut off the bottom of the sugar cone so it will easily push down in the cake, put a rown of icing - either royal or buttercream (I've used both) - and turn a waffle cone upside down on top so that the point is up.
Good luck!
I covered paper towel rolls in royal icing in one of my castles and topped with an icecream cone and in the other I covered a paper towel roll in fondant. Take a look at my pictures.
I've used fondant or gumpaste around pipes to make towers in the past, but that takes a while to dry completely & then there's the risk of breakage. For my last castle I used a 1 1/2" pvc pipe to make rice krispie treat turrets... just pressed them down in as hard as I could to compact them & then pushed the whole thing out 1 end & done. I'll be doing all castles this way from now on. I just covered the rice krispie treat towers with fondant & they were perfect & it was super easy.
I certainly can't compete with Tuggy's cake, but if you like the turrets I did on my castle cake (see my gallery), I could give you directions. I did mine out of fondant only. They did take several days to dry, but my little girl thought it was worth it. I didn't use paper towels, I dried for a two days over pvc pipe and then took them off to dry inside.
Good luck with whatever you decide!
-Michelle
I've made mine with paper towel tubes and PVC pipe, but my next one I plan to try out the rice crispies idea- that sounds awesome! Thanks sherry_lyn!
I also make my towers out of RK treats. Then, I push a sharpened skewer through so I can hammer it into the cake board. That's how all the towers on my Disney Princess cake are held on. I iced mine with buttercream to match the cake.
I've also stacked cookies to make towers for a sandcastle cake. I chose cookies with a hole in the center so I could stick the skewer in.
I made my turrets out of pringles cans. Very, very easy and they are still in great shape, (the cake was made last August). I iced the pringle cans lightly with BC and them covered in rolled fondant. For the stone effect isued a small square cutter and pressed the design around the turret sides to give it the look of stone. It also make the fondant puff out a little like stone would. Check my photos. I did not remove the can, naturally and they saved them to play with. I also made some with stacked cookies, iced with BC and and then covered in fondant. They came out good too, but it was just too much to put on one cake.
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