Please Help- Bhg Took Down The Directions And I Want To Make
Decorating By diz Updated 8 Apr 2008 , 4:52am by 4starcakes
this cake for my daughters first birthday.
http://www.bhg.com/recipes/desserts/cakes/birthday-cakes-for-kids-recipes/?page=12
I have done the wilton courses so the decorating is not the issue, it is the size of the pans..... any guess??
thank you so much.
Looks like maybe 8 inch square and 4 inch round.
Hi. Looks like a very fun cake to make and a real party pleaser. I'm not familiar with this particular cake, but I can give you a guess and a suggestion. First the guess. I made a castle cake for my daughter (not the BHG one) and I used a 10" square for the base and a 6" round for the second layer. The dimensions of my cake look very similar to the BHG picture. Now for the suggestion. I got my instructions for the castle cake at CakeBoss.com. She has complete step by step instructions with pictures under the heading "tutorials." You may be able to look at her pictures and directions and apply them to your cake project.
Anyway, I hope someone out there at CC has the instructions you are looking for, but if not, I hope you find my reply helpful. Good luck on your project!
Kim
Just a suggestion. I did a castle cake once for my niece who was only having 5 kids at her party but she wanted a BIG castle. I made the bottom square tier a dummy (styro) and the top tier the real cake. Nobody knew the difference until after the party was over and my sister (her mom) was so relieved to know she didn't have to take....all-that-cake (lol) home with her.
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I found the instructions for you. I went to google and typed in "castle cake instructions better homes" and the first result that popped up matched. The instead of clicking on the link, I clikced on "Cached" and there are the instructions. I do this a lot and is how I knew about the cached feature.
You don't have to go through all of the above. I have cut and pasted the link for you below:
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache
px2ZlXROrsJ:www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp%3Fcatref%3DC322%26storyid%3D/templatedata/bhg/story/data/cookingschool_castlecake_09282002.xml+castle+cake+instructions+better+homes&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
You will need to cut and paste the link into your browser. HTH!
Shadow, I looked at the cached page as well. The problem is that they don't tell you the pan sizes on the first page. It tells you to go to page 2 to see a list of equipment.
However, there are comments at the end of the cached page. One commenter says that the round is 8 in. And that she had to go up to using a 9 in square pan. She complains that she still didn't seem to have enough room for her 8 in round pan. This makes me believe that the correct pan sizes are 8 in round and 8 in square.
Here is the quote from the commenter:
"I made this cake for my son's 1st Birthday. Everyone was impressed but I had to use a 9in square and then i still had to trim the 8in round to have room for the cupcakes which made it very had to ice. But i had fun making it. (ps...im not a baker)"
I did my own version of this same cake and the instructions said 8" square and 6" round. I had a lot of trouble fitting the cones and keeping them from tilting. If I did it again I'd use a larger base. Here is my poor attempt at this cake.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=704633
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