Castle Cake

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:

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
2. Place one batch of cake batter into each loaf pan.
3. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
4. Cool cakes in pans for 15 minutes.
5. Remove cakes from pans; place on wire rack.
6. Cool 1 hour or until completely cooled.
7. Tint about 2 cups frosting with desired color for the castle.
8. Tint about 1/4 cup frosting with desired color for the ice cream cone towers and tint remaining frosting blue.
9. Trim all sides of each loaf cake until level and cakes are rectangular.
10. For main section of castle, place 1 loaf on platter or foil cover cardboard.
11. 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.
12. Frost entire castle with castle colored frosting.
13. Frost ice cream cone with frosting and place in center on top of each end tower.
14. Place 10 small gumdrops around each ice cream cone.
15. Line main section of castle with 10 large gumdrops.
16. Cut 4 shields from red chewy fruit snack rolls; place shields on front of castle.
17. Decorate as desired.
18. Cut 1 door from orange chewy fruit snack rolls; place in middle section of front of castle.
19. Cut 6 strips of orange chewy fruit snack rolls for windows; attach to the front of the castle.
20. Double fold orange chewy fruit snack rolls; cut 2 flags. Attach each flag to wooden skewer; insert in top of main section of castle.
21. Double fold red chewy fruit snack rolls; cut two flags. Attach each flag to toothpick; break toothpick in half.
22. Attach 2 small gumdrops to top of ice cream cones. Insert toothpick into gumdrops on top of ice cream cones.
23. Frost around cake with blue frosting for water.
24. 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.