What Is The Best Way To Make Turrets For A Castle Cake?
Decorating By janicecold Updated 10 Jan 2007 , 12:03am by tinascakes
What is the best way to make turrets and cover them? Do I cover them with royal icing, fondant, or something else. Thanks!!
I have made two castle cakes, they are in my gallery if you're interested. With both of them, I used cardboard tubes, spread a thin coating of royal icing on them as "glue" and wrapped them in fondant. Feel free to ask if you have any other construction questions.
I've baked my cake in juice cans and that worked well. You just need to bake it slowly. I covered mine in buttercream piping a marble of gray and white icing with a number 12. Then going back and pushing them down with my finger to make them look like rocks. HTH
Janicecold--
Look in my photos on page 7, titled "Brooklyn Castle"
I made the turrets with ice cream cones. First dipped in white chocolae and stacked 2 together by the bottoms to set. Attached to castle with frosting, then added buttercream "stones" using tip #10 and flattening them out.
I have made them with cakes baked in soup or tuna cans but I like the look of the cones better.
HTH--Pam
For the turrets on my castle cake (in my photos) I baked cake in large coffee cans, cut the cylinder shape cakes in half lengthways, sandwiched the halves back together with buttercream, then covered them in a buttercream crumb coat and then fondant. Hope that made sense.
Val
I think the easiest way is to wrap gumpaste around a paper towel tube that has plastic wrap on it.....then when it's dry (let it dry for at least a day), then remove the hard tower from the paper towel roll and stick an ice cream cone on top.. then you can stand it up next to the cake and stick it either in the cake or stick it to the cake board using royal icing.....kids love them because you can fill the inside with candy and small toys.....or cake balls yummy!!
For my daughter's b-day I made her a castle cake(we forgot to bring the camera...) and I used the paper towel rolls and wrapped them in fondant. Then once they dried, I put the sugar cones(cone-shaped) that were covered in fondant and painted, on top of the turrets. It looked really nice! Jen
I used ice cream cones on mine (in my pics). I thought that worked out really well.
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