Princess Castle Cake

If your daughter is asking for a princess castle cake for her birthday this year, do not panic. While it may sound intricate and complicated, there are a number of castle birthday cake ideas that are both beautiful and easy to make. Here are just a few of our favorite princess cake ideas to get you inspired. Submit your castle cake below.

3-D Castle Cake

If you’re looking to create an extravagant 3-D castle cake for the little princess in your life, it’s definitely not as hard as it looks. Towers and freestanding objects on the castle can be hard to make for the inexperienced cake creator but thankfully there are ways to create a beautiful princess castle with very little or no cake cutting or shaping skills required.

To make your castle cake simply bake a large round cake and use simple decorating techniques and cake accessories to create and design your castle. We recommend buying the Romantic Castle Cake Kit made by Wilton.

This kit comes with numerous plastic towers and tower toppers of various sizes, simply make one large cake or stack several in the size of your choosing and frost. When you are ready to decorate, simply place and adhere the towers where you would like them to be. For extra color, place dyed ice cream cones over the tower toppers.

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This cake was made with the Wilton Romantic Castle Cake Kit (see link below for details). Photo courtesy of Sylvia U.

Castle Cake Pans

If you don’t have the time or patience for accessories, you may want to consider using a preshaped cake pan to create your princess castle cake. You can find these pans at virtually any craft store or find them online. These pans allow you to focus more of your energy on decorating the cake, rather than assembling it.

If you are looking for a beautifully designed cake pan, we recommend using the Enchanted Castle Cake pan and instructions available from Wilton. Simply bake your cake and decorate using your little princess’ favorite colors to create a masterpiece she is sure to enjoy.

Princess Castle Toppers

By far the easiest of our castle cake ideas is to use an accessory or topper kit. There are many varieties of these kits available and they usually contain a premade castle and possibly a princess. To use these, make a large 13x9 sheet cake and frost. Place your castle where you’d like it to sit and then decorate the rest of the cake.

With the remaining space around the castle, you can create an environment where your castle can stand. You can use piping bags and tips to create a beautiful spring garden or even a moat!

More Castle Cake Decorating Ideas

Decorate a layered cake with ice cream cones for the towers.

Use cookie wafers for a drawbridge.

Want a princess cake instead? Use the Barbie Doll cake.

Stack 4 layers on the bottom and 3-4 smaller layers on the top. To create a multi-tier castle cake.

Print off our castle cake decorating pattern and use it to create your cake.

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See more Princess castle photos from our readers below.

There are plenty of other ideas and decorating techniques out there for creating your princess castle cake. Use one of ours or branch out and create your own masterpiece. Whichever design you choose, be sure to show it off in our cake gallery!

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