A couple of months ago, my darling sister-in-law Ariel {jokingly} told me that she wanted an (easy) Princess Castle cake when her birthday came. I vowed that's what she would have and it became a joke between us (although I secretly planned to do it all along!).
Then when I made the Peace Sign cake and it was a tie-dyed cake inside, Ariel added to her request that she wanted a Pink Princess Castle cake and she wanted it to be tie-dyed inside. The girl doesn't ask for much...hehe.
Easy Princess Castle Cake
Not being one to shy away from a challenge - and loving Ariel to pieces - I knew I had to make her this cake! Except I didn't have a lot of time and I'd never actually made any kind of castle cake. Oops!
Anyway, because I had so many orders for her birthday weekend, I had warned her that her cake might be late (she kept insisting that I didn't have to do it at all, but I was not going to disappoint!).
Then, her sister called and said she wanted to have a surprise birthday party for her and asked if I'd make a cake for that weekend... of course, I already knew the perfect one!
Anyway, when I did a search for castle cakes, many of them were incredibly complicated with lots of towers! Because of my huge workload that weekend, I didn't have time for all of that so I set out to do a simplified cake.
I made her cake with two 8" square cakes stacked, then a 6" round cake and 4" round cake. For the faux-towers, I just used waffle ice cream cones on the corners. Everything you see is edible except the toothpicks holding the tiny flags. I marbled some black gel into marshmallow fondant for the stones.
I added texture by using fondant impression mats on the door, the windows and adding the tiny bricks to the sides.
And of course... the inside was tie-dyed!!
See how to get that effect here. If you need recipes, this cake was vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, decorated with marshmallow fondant!
Any questions about this cake? Please leave them in the comments!
Check out these other popular Princess cakes here:
Pink Ombre Ruffles Princess Tiara Cake
Pink Ombre Buttercream Ruffles Princess Cake
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Brittany W.
Hello. I'm looking to make this in August for my daughters birthday. I'm just wondering is 1 batch of homemade fondant enough to cover the entire cake or will I need to do a double batch? Thanks!
Rose
It's been quite awhile since I did this cake, but I think one would be enough - this is a pretty small cake. Having said that, I am terrified of running out so I always make more than I need 😉
Brittany W.
Ok. Thanks! I'm making a trial cake this weekend and the fondant tomorrow. Don't know if you'll get this in time, but I was wondering something about your directions on making the MMF. You say after it's melted to add the color before the powdered sugar, but then what do I do for the windows and door since they are not pink?
Thanks!
Rose
You don't have to add the color before the powdered sugar - I just do that when I know I'll need an entire batch of that color! If you're only doing one batch, you'll want to make it all white, the pull off a small ball to do the gray (or whatever other colors you need), then knead the pink coloring into the bulk of it.
Brittany W.
Ok, thank you very much!
Becky
I want to make a princess castle cake for my daughters bday and this looks way "easier" than the others I've seen. I have the 10 disney princess figurines to incorporate into the cake. What dimensions do you think would be good so I have room n the different tiers to put the princesses? How do you do the fondant? If i want to have chocolate icing between layers of the larger bottome tier, how do I do that?
Rose
Without knowing the sizes of your princesses, I can't really answer about what size cakes you need. I have a recipe here on my site for homemade marshmallow fondant (https://rosebakes.com/how-to-make-homemade-marshmallow-fondant-yummy/). For the icing between layers, I make some stiffer frosting and pipe a dam around the edges, then fill in the center with the regular frosting.
Becky
I have a couple more Questions.
1. I'm going to do a 10 inch square stacked base, 8 x 3 inch round for 2nd tier and 4 inch for top. Should I use some sort of support dowels?
2. Also not sure how to smooth the fondant on a square cake.
3. Can I use buttercream frosting to "adhere" the door, bricks etc?
If I want to complete the cake on Fri (party is sat and I took fri off work) I was thinking of making the fondant Tues, square cakes for sure wed, frosting and stack square bottom thurs. Will anything dry out?
Becky
oh and I have Disney princess figurines to decorate the cake with, that is why I am doing a 10 inch bottom with 8 and then 4 inch topper, so I have rooms for the princesses
Becky
oh sorry one more question. the heating cores? should I use this in either the 10 inch square or 8x3 inch round? this is my first time making a cake (other than basic sheet cake) by myself!
Rose
I never bake with 3" deep pans, so I'm not sure about that one, but for my 2" pans, I probably wouldn't worry about a heating core on the 8" round, but probably would use it on the 10" square.
Rose
Yes, I use bubble tea straws for support in my cakes. I have a tutorial here on stacking cakes (https://rosebakes.com/cowboy-western-cake-smash-cake-how-to-stack-cake-tiers-tutorial/). Search on youtube and you can probably find a video for how to cover a square cake in fondant. I would use a tiny bit of water or sugar glue (https://rosebakes.com/reader-q-a-my-spreadsheet-for-orders-fondant-glue-for-cake/) to glue the decorations on instead of buttercream.