Here is the castle cake that I made for my nephews' 4th and 6th birthdays party. They had a knights theme with a castle bounce house and big blow-up swords...lots of fun for the kids. I got most of my ideas for the cake from a website that I like called coolest-birthday-cakes.com. There were a whole bunch of similar cakes and I just picked the ideas that I liked the best from each cake and used them. This cake is made out of two 10in. square cakes, two 6in. round cakes, and lots of icing. I used black and blue to get the blueish gray color. I covered two 16in. cake circles with foil first then blue plastic wrap to look like the moat. I used Hershey bars to make the windows and and the door. The draw bridge is made out of these cookie things called Pirouettes and orange licorice. The turrets-or whatever they are called- are cupcakes and ice cream cones (pretty obvious, I'm sure). I just cut the flags out of construction paper and wrote on them with pen. The accenting colors were chosen by the birthday boys because orange and green are their favorite colors. This cake was fun to make and not really all that hard. It probably took a few hours one day and then maybe one the next to put on the finishing touches. I thought about putting another turret in the middle but when we tried it the cake came off looking a little too Cinderella-ish. We wanted it too look more masculine more like a fort rather than a princess castle so we left off the middle tower. Of course this cake would be easy to make for a girl's part just by changing the colors (maybe using gum drops or something instead of kisses) and adding that middle tower, so that would be an idea. I was very happy with how this cake turned out.
