Round Pans
Candy Castle Cake
Fashion a fairytale fortress around a tiered cake. Our Romantic Castle Cake Set supplies reusable architectural pieces—including towers, windows and doors—that can be decorated with icing or melted candy.
Ingredients:
- Easy-Add Rose Icing Color Add to shopping list Rose Icing Color
- Easy-Add Lemon Yellow Icing Color Add to shopping list Lemon Yellow Icing Color
- Easy-Add Golden Yellow Icing Color Add to shopping list Golden Yellow Icing Color
- Easy-Add Royal Blue Icing Color Add to shopping list Royal Blue Icing Color
- Easy-Add Kelly Green Icing Color Add to shopping list Kelly Green Icing Color
- Easy-Add White Candy Melts® Candy Add to shopping list White Candy Melts® Candy
- Easy-Add Light Green Colored Sugar Add to shopping list Light Green Colored Sugar
- Easy-Add Blue Colored Sugar Add to shopping list Blue Colored Sugar
- spice drops
- Candy-coated chocolate dots regular and mini size
- Jelly fruit candies
- Jelly spearmint leaves
- granulated sugar
Makes:
Cake serves 40.
Tools:
- Easy-Add Romantic Castle Cake Set Add to shopping list Romantic Castle Cake Set
- Easy-Add 6 in. Round Pan Add to shopping list 6 in. Round Pan
- Easy-Add 10 x 2 in. Round Pan Add to shopping list 10 x 2 in. Round Pan
- Easy-Add Tip: 3 Add to shopping list Tip: 3
- Easy-Add 14 in. Silver Cake Base Add to shopping list 14 in. Silver Cake Base
- Easy-Add Plastic Dowel Rods Add to shopping list Plastic Dowel Rods
- Scissors
Instructions:
Step 1
Ice 2-layer cakes smooth in thinned buttercream. Prepare cakes for stacked construction and position on base board.
Step 2
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.
Step 3
Insert window and door pieces in cake sides. Position main roof piece.
Step 4
Position spice drops around top borders of both cakes and jelly fruit candies around bottom border of 6 in. cake.
Step 5
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.
Step 6
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.
Step 7
Outline around tower windows, door, window and main roof pieces with tip 3 in buttercream.
Step 8
With royal icing, attach large candy-coated chocolates around door and main roof; attach mini candy-coated chocolates around all windows.
Step 9
Cut spearmint leaves lengthwise in half; cut each piece in half to make 4 thin leaves.
Step 10
Dip leaves in granulated sugar; attach to base of cake with royal icing.
*Combine Lemon Yellow with Golden Yellow for yellow shown.
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