This castle cake was fun and a lot easier than it looks.
It’s basically a two-tiered square cake with round towers on each corner, and the whole thing is covered with a fondant/candy clay mixture.
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This is how I did the towers on each corner.
First, to make the towers, you’ll need a bunch of small rounds.
I used a bunch of 6″ rounds because I wasn’t sure what size I would need, but I could have used 5″ ones.
If you can make these exactly as tall as the pans by using cake collars, that would be helpful because you’ll need to stack them evenly with the top of the main cake.
Crumb coat the main square cake, but you can skip the corners. I used a 10″ square.
Cut off the corners…
Cut the rounds in half and put them up against the corners. Use icing to glue them onto the corners.
They should be the same height as the main part of the cake.
Trim the rounds to the size that you want the towers to be, and so they line up with the cut are on the main cake.
Add another piece on top of the half-round so that the tower will be taller than the main part of the cake. Ice the towers.
Once you have the entire cake shaped and crumb coated, you can decorate it to look like it’s one solid piece.
Cover the cake with fondant or modelling chocolate (which is what I used for this cake.)
Make sure that the towers are attached to the main part of the cake with the panels of the fondant to keep them in place.
Wrapping the tower with one long panel of fondant that then extends onto the sides of the cake is the best way to go.
Decorate however you want!
I used candy clay/fondant for this one so that I could score brick lines into the walls, and I cut more stones out of the fondant to put them on top of the towers and walls.
I added a fondant treasure chest and cannon on the towers, and put a flag in the center.
