My little girl is getting bigger! She turns 7 a week today, but we had to have her birthday party yesterday because we will be camping next week!
I am feeling pretty exhausted after two parties in two weeks so will keep this short!
I got the idea for this cake from Mum on the Brink.
My daughter requested a castle cake so I frantically started looking on Pinterest for something simple that wouldn’t be too taxing for me (being an amateur cake decorator!).
The instructions from Mum on the Brink are brilliant and I copied her idea of using a stack of biscuits to make the towers, but I made my biscuits.
I used my trusty recipe for jammie dodgers again, but this time cut them out exactly the same size as the Barkat ice cream cones that I had bought for the spires.
I ‘glued’ them together using the icing from my iced gems.
Rather than cover the biscuits in butter icing, I opted to use the icing from my gluten free iced gems recipe.
This sets hard and meant that the biscuits were not wasted by going soggy.
It also meant that I could do this step a few days in advance making the whole cake a lot easier to put together.
I kept the stacks of biscuits covered in icing in my oven (since it is so hot I haven’t been using it and it meant that the biscuits were not seen!), along with the iced ice cream cones, ‘stuck’ to the stack of biscuits with the same icing.
I baked my cake using my basic sponge recipe and made it vanilla as requested.
I did a double quantity of the mix and baked it in a square pan.
In hindsight I would have made it in a smaller tin but I didn’t have one!
When cool, I sliced the cake in half and filled it with homemade jam.
I then used my ‘butter icing recipe’ that you can find here, to cover the cake…tinted with some red gel colouring.
I used mini-marshmallows for the little windows.
The door was made from squirty chocolate icing that I had knocking around in the cupboard, and the big windows were made with Pink Panther pink wafers.
I painted a ‘plant’ on one tower with gel food colouring!
Finally I used Dr Oetker silver shimmer spray to give it some shine!
I had one very grateful and happy little girl and a super easy cake to make!
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Honest Mum says
WOW WOW WOW (ok will stop shouting now) that is utterly incredible! You are amazing! So impressed! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
The Free From Fairy says
Ah thanks Vicki!
Caroline Hooper (My Family Ties) says
That looks amazing!! Such a great recipe, thank you for sharing it 🙂 #TastyTuesdays
The Free From Fairy says
Ah thank you for your comment Caroline!
Jamie @ At Home Baristas says
That cake is super impressive! I’m sure your daughter loved it!
The Free From Fairy says
Thanks Jamie. She totally loved it and keeps talking about it. Makes it all worth while!
Emma says
That looks amazing! I always thought the ‘make great looking kids’ birthday cakes’ gene would hit me when I became a mum but after one dodgy cake in the shape of a one, it’s sadly not got to me yet!
The Free From Fairy says
Ah Emma, I am sure that isn’t true! Whatever you do they appreciate it. Thanks for leaving a comment!
Mel says
Wow, this cake looks impressive… and it is gigantic! How many people did you have coming round? I am really (really) impressed by the fact you made everything from scratch, including the biscuits to make the towers. Glad your little princess was happy and ‘super easy’ in your last sentence really made me laugh! I have no idea how you found the time to make such a masterpiece. x
The Free From Fairy says
Ha ha! It really was easy and not gigantic. It is nearly all gone! We had 10 kids in total who took a piece home and 2 grandparents. I made it in stages so it wasn’t too time consuming and managable for my short attention span!!! Bit by bit it came together across a couple of evenings…x