This was the first cake...this is the one that kicked off the obsession!!
It was coming up to my little girls 2nd birthday and I asked her what she wanted for her cake. Little Missy said she wanted a fairy princess castle cake and this got me thinking how I could pull this together, after purchasing the Women's Weekly Birthday Cakes book I used this as a reference to create the below.
On my first attempt (crazy me left it to the day before) I baked butter cake and burnt it :) I then whipped out to Woolworth's (local Supermarket for the international readers) and bought some slab cake.
Then it was all in the decoration. The butter slab cake was filled with strawberry jam and vanilla butter cream. The turrets were made out of upturned waffle cones and the whole cake was covered with butter cream.
Smarties and marshmallows were used to decorate the castle. Spearmint leaves were used around the bottom of the castle. Wafers were used as the doors at the front with musk sticks over the top. The top flags were toothpicks with little fondant squares placed over the top. The unicorns and fairies I bought at a $2.00 shop.
I will never forget the look on little Missy's face when she saw this cake...this is what got me hooked.
It is just priceless seeing the joy, the awe and sheer delight...so the journey for me began :)
Thanks for reading the Sweet Constitution
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