The entire castle is made with vanilla cake and vanilla butter cream, including the turrets. I found the castle design in an 80s birthday cakes book that my mum had bought for mine and Becks early birthdays and thought it was perfect for what I had been asked to create.
Each turret was baked in a can that had been washed and lined with baking paper. This was a first for me using cans to bake in so I wasn't to sure on timings and how much mixer to put in so luckily I had put the baking paper higher than the can top as a couple of them tried to escape.
The other two tiers are using 12'' and 5'' round cake tins.
Once cooled each piece had vanilla butter cream in the middle and then dirty iced in the remaining icing. After dirty icing, each piece was covered in white regal ice that had been scored to look like brick work effect, it didn't look to pristine like in the book but I thought it added to the character of the cake, plus a couple of the turrets had that old twisted ruin look going on which was totally meant to happen.
After a couple of hours drying I started putting it together, finding out where each turret should sit and then adding the fort edging around the two round cakes gave a clean finish to the brick work. The turret roofs are white chocolate drops instead of fondant like it suggested in the book but I sometimes think less is better with fondant plus most people love chocolate especially kids. The last couple of stages were the windows and doors which I made mine with pink hearts, small for the windows and large for the three doors, and the trees climbing up the castle were piped on with royal icing in brown and green. The final stage was sprinkling the cake with lots of glitter.
I loved making this cake it was so much fun and the only bit that I struggled with was writing Lola on the cake board free hand, that bit was not fun.
