My youngest daughter picked this cake out for her third birthday. She also requested the castle be purple, her favorite color.
Castle Cake
Ingredients:
- 2 batches of cake batter, made separately
- vanilla frosting
- food coloring (non-liquid)
- toothpicks
- 4 (6-inch) wooden skewers
- 2 sugar ice cream cones
- red chewy fruit snack rolls
- orange chewy fruit snack rolls
- 22 small gumdrops
- 10 large gumdrops
- Pretzel sticks (3-inch)
Directions:
- Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
- Place one batch of cake batter into each loaf pan.
- Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool cakes in pans for 15 minutes.
- Remove cakes from pans; place on wire rack.
- Cool 1 hour or until completely cooled.
- Tint about 2 cups frosting with desired color for the castle.
- Tint about 1/4 cup frosting with desired color for the ice cream cone towers and tint remaining frosting blue.
- Trim all sides of each loaf cake until level and cakes are rectangular.
- For main section of castle, place 1 loaf on platter or foil cover cardboard.
- Cut remaining loaf cake in half vertically and stand on end of each side of main section. Attach each end cake piece using about 1 tablespoon castle frosting color and a wooden skewer.
- Frost entire castle with castle colored frosting.
- Frost ice cream cone with frosting and place in center on top of each end tower.
- Place 10 small gumdrops around each ice cream cone.
- Line main section of castle with 10 large gumdrops.
- Cut 4 shields from red chewy fruit snack rolls; place shields on front of castle.
- Decorate as desired.
- Cut 1 door from orange chewy fruit snack rolls; place in middle section of front of castle.
- Cut 6 strips of orange chewy fruit snack rolls for windows; attach to the front of the castle.
- Double fold orange chewy fruit snack rolls; cut 2 flags. Attach each flag to wooden skewer; insert in top of main section of castle.
- Double fold red chewy fruit snack rolls; cut two flags. Attach each flag to toothpick; break toothpick in half.
- Attach 2 small gumdrops to top of ice cream cones. Insert toothpick into gumdrops on top of ice cream cones.
- Frost around cake with blue frosting for water.
- Place pretzel sticks in front of door for bridge.
Enjoy!!!
Notes:
You can use any color fruit snack rolls you desire.
I made my cake batter batches separately so I did not have to try and divide the batter evenly between the two pans.