Castle birthday cake

One of my new hobbies is baking. My mum is a confectioner and so I grew up watching her bake many beautiful and delicious cakes and all things sweet. So when my little girl was turning a year old I decided I would bake her birthday cake. Unfortunately this was really a totally flop. I am actually grateful I didn't take any pictures of that cake. We had to buy her a cake.

But it always bothered me because I felt that since my mother was such a good baker I should have picked up on a lot of tips while watching her when I as younger.So I tried quite a few times baking and experimenting as the years passed. And believe me I had way over my fair share of terrible baking disasters.

However it seems after all that practicing I finally managed to start creating beautiful cakes and biscuits. This is one of my first cakes I am really so proud of. It is the cake I made for my daughters' 5th birthday. She wanted a princess theme so I set to the task of making a castle cake.

The decorating for this cake took me many hours. The cake is plain vanilla sponge with butter-cream filling. I covered it with fondant(plastic icing). The towers were made out of rice crispie treats and covered with fondant. The tops of the towers are sugar cones that were covered with coloured royal icing and I sprinkled glitter on while it was wet. And all those princesses on the top are edible and handmade by Me. 

My little girl was so happy with it and so was I. I will be posting more pictures of cakes and other baked goodies that I have done over the years in the next few weeks. So look out for that. Write me a comment if you would like more information about this cake. 

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xoxo

Sam