Friday, September 25, 2009

Princess Castle Birthday Cake Ideas

Princess Castle Birthday Cake Ideas


Making a princess castle cake can be a great addition to any child's birthday celebration. It can be as simple or as complex as your skill level and imagination make possible. Generally speaking, the colors used to decorate a princess castle cake are pastels. Because of this white cake icing is a preferred type of icing. It is good as an adhesive and holds color well. Add this to my Recipe Box.


Novice


A simple decoration idea is to ice your cake and add plastic figurines to it. There are a variety of plastic cake decorations available at baking supply stores. You should plan out how you want to arrange the figurines in advance and ice the cake in matching or complimentary colors. As an alternative, you can purchase a toy castle intended as a gift and put that on the cake. Another alternative is to purchase a toy castle and make a princess cake to go with it. Make a dome shaped cake for a dress and insert a plastic doll torso into the top.


Intermediate


A more challenging cake is a square cake with turrets made out of cupcakes and waffle cones. Make the towers slightly higher than the cake. This cake can be one layer thick or you can make a square layer cake for the base and use a round layer cake on the top for the castle. If you make a two-layer cake, the bottom can be iced in a garden theme, with piped flowers and animal and people figurines.


Advanced


If you are an experienced cake maker, you can make multi-tiered cakes and give each level a different princess theme. Some theme possibilities are evil queens, dragons and heroes. Your cake can present one theme or multiple themes. Rolled fondant offers many decorating possibilities for this cake. You can make many decorative elements out of it. You could also purchase a multi-level stand and make individual cupcakes, each with a miniature doll in it and the cupcake decorated as her dress. Some of the cupcakes can be created with some of the themes given above.







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