Castle Decorating Contest

Castle Parties: Candy Castle

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Tools:

• 6, 10 x 2 in. Round
• Tip: 3
• 14 in. Silver Cake Base
• Plastic dowel rods
• Scissors

Ingredients:

• Rose, Lemon Yellow**, Golden Yellow**, Royal Blue, Kelly Green Icing Colors
• White Candy Melts®*
• Light Green, Blue Colored Sugars
• Buttercream Icing
• Royal Icing
• Spice drops
• Candy-coated chocolate dots (regular and mini size)
• Jelly fruit candies
• Jelly spearmint leaves
• Granulated sugar

*Brand confectionery coating.

**Combine Lemon Yellow with Golden Yellow for yellow shown.

Ice 2-layer cakes smooth in thinned buttercream. Prepare cakes for stacked construction and position on base board. For towers being inserted into cake, attach dowel rods, cut 1 in. shorter than height of tier, to bottoms of 3 small and 4 medium turret towers using melted candy. Insert window and door pieces in cake sides. Position main roof piece. Position spice drops around top borders of both cakes and jelly fruit candies around bottom border of 6 in. cake. Insert 4 medium towers in 10 in. cake and 3 small towers in 6 in. cake. Attach 4 large towers to sides of cake and board with buttercream. Ice turret peaks smooth in blue or green; sprinkle with matching color sugar. Attach turret peaks to towers with buttercream. Attach a spice drop to top of each peak. Outline around tower windows, door, window and main roof pieces with tip 3 in buttercream. With royal icing, attach large candy-coated chocolates around door and main roof; attach mini candy-coated chocolates around all windows. Cut spearmint leaves lengthwise in half; cut each piece in half to make 4 thin leaves. Dip leaves in granulated sugar; attach to base of cake with royal icing.

Serves 40.