Castle Cake

by Bethany
(Ludington, MI USA)

Castle cake before the Romans invaded

You will need LOTS of frosting to make this cake! I would get 10-12 cans!

Bottom: 4 stacked 13 x 9 cakes

Top: 2 stacked 8 x 8 cakes, trimmed down a bit, stacked in center of larger bottom part.

Towers: Frost a regular ice cream cone and a sugar cone; place the sugar cone upside-down inside the regular cone and frost the seam. Dip/sprinkle with pink sugar.

Windows/Doors: Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies (windows are cut in 1/2)

Other details: Pink Breast Cancer Awareness M&Ms


The cake looked great at first, but it didn't hold; it started falling apart! A couple of things I would advise to avoid this are:

1) Do NOT use "Whipped" frosting; it needs to be sturdy!

2) Instead of pushing the towers down on the base, cut a hole on each of the base's four corners, the size of the bottom of the regular ice cream cone. Set the tower in the hole, and ice around it to hold it there.

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3) Even if your cakes look level, use a cake leveler anyway! The slightest difference can make your cake unstable.

So my cake fell apart... no; I didn't cry. Sometimes you have to make lemonade out of lemons, right?

I asked my oldest son to get some little plastic knights and a cannon from his pirate set and strategically placed them on the cake and told the guests that the "Romans had attacked overnight." We had a good laugh and the cake was still the conversation piece.

Good luck!