Wilton Castle Cake Pan Set 32-Piece, Hi-Impact Polystyrene

After spending 12-15 hours baking, freezing, frosting, chilling, cutting, piping, and praying making this cake it was just beautiful. but just 60 seconds after we sang i watched from the back of the crowd of excited parents as little hands yanked turrets, flowers, windows, cake, and frosting from the nearly 22" confection structure.In detail you must use the correct pans 6" from wilton and 10" from winware. you will use 4 Lbs of powered sugar and 2Lbs of butter/shortening for the frosting alone.Your cakes must be 2" tall each. 2.5 cups of batter for the 6" and 5.5 for the 10". Use this recipe. (( [...] )) it will make a dense cake. Necessary for this kind of cake. Making 300+ flowers is best done with the Wilton Floral Garland Cutter $8I used liquid food coloring and mashed it in the fondant. Rolled it thin and pushed, twist, lift, eject into your cupped hand and the flower will come out slightly concave with a small dot in the center. pipe the dots on after you apply them. Pick them up with a tooth pick and press them into the piped leaves.i made my own cake boards from luan wood and applied sealer. you must insert at least 3 thin wooden dowels into center of 10" layer so the 6" layer will not collapse as you insert the turrets. gluing the plastic dowels onto the turrets with chocolate will not work. i used 3" pieces of pvc and superglue. Your turrets may not be perfectly straight but it doesn't matter. in 60 seconds it will all be over. If you try to reposition them it may not work.I drilled holes in 3/4" x 3" wood strips to wedge all the turrets in place. Made it much easier to decorate and then move around. (that was the best idea)to decorate the cone shaped tops i drilled small holes into the tips of the cones and inserted a tooth pic. this let me hold and move them around. Frost them and just have a pile of sprinkles on the table. not in a plate. then roll them in it and carefully press if needed. (another great idea)Freeze the cakes, then crumb coat, chill and frost again. Easier to handle.I did use chocolate to glue the turrets to the foil lined base of the cake. then piled more chocolate around the base after it set, hid it with frosting and leaves.If you have never piped decorations i will say leaves took me about 10 seconds to figure out. just google "wilton 352 leaf tip directions" You can make leaves of all sizes.My kid was amazed, and so was I.

I had a great time making this castle cake, everyone was impressed, and best of all - my daughter was thrilled.After reading the other reviews and the instructions, I made a few changes to make it easier. I also moved this cake across town and it held together fine.My changes/edits/suggestions:- I made the cake smaller - used 2 9in pans for the bottom and 2 5 inch pans for the top. Because of this, I had to push the top layer to the back of the cake (instead of centered) and only use about 3/4 of the towers provided.- I used glitter spray paint to paint the cone top of the towers instead of using frosting or the butter/sprinkle method. Then I hot glued them to the towers (I needed to make a lot of the cake in advance)- The towers that were on the plate I hot glued to the plate. Those that went into the cake, I drilled holes in the bottom and put a wooden kabob stick through (I hot glued these in place to for stability).- I didn't cut out fondant flowers (super cute but who has time for that) Instead, I just used icing tubes and decorating tips to make leaves and simple flowers around the cake and towers.This cake was work (I probably put in about 1-2 hours not including making the cake) but worth it! My #1 tip is that the cake has so much going on that you don't need to get hung up on the details. It's the overall scale and look that makes it great.

I made this for my niece and it turned out fantastic!!! Warning though, there is no cake pan included. However, all I did was use a round pan and cut the sides to make a hexagon shaped cake. My cake was also too short for the door so I added the cut pieces to the front and layered icing over it, then put the door on. No one could tell the difference. Whats included are all the plastic pieces (towers, door, windows, and cones to go on top of the towers. One down side is the towers do not stay in place if you are moving the cake. So either set the towers up last where the cake will not be touched, or hot glue them to the board the cake will sit on (I transported it 3 hrs away with them hot glued to a cake board and everything turned out fine). The cone topers I just added icing and dipped them in sprinkles. It took a long time to decorate with different colors and make the cake from scratch, but it was well worth it. It turned out great, everyone was amazed, and my 7 yr old niece was thrilled about having a princess cake. Priceless!

This was awesome. I followed a lot of other reviewers, which made for an awesome cake with easier assembly. I glued golf tees to the bottoms of the pieces going into the cake, using e-6000; they were very sturdy that way. I also used a spray paint and spray glitter for all the turret tops to make them lighter and take away the hastle of using fondant. I then used a Wilton decorator icing (which I had matched my paint to) and just piped on all the window and door frames, which worked out wonderfully. I bought premade sugar flowers, which looked awesome and probably saved me a few hours in prep time. Overall, following the tricks I learned from those who went before me made the overall assembly super easy and fairly quick (about 1.5hrs). My daughter loved it, and everyone at her party could NOT believe it was homemade.