Theme: Princess Castle Cake


Genoise Sponge Cakes
(You will need 3 square tins of sponge cake for this Princess Castle)


Strawberry Chocolate Buttercream
(This is for covering the cake)


Covering the 1st layer of cake with buttercream.


1st layer covered with buttercream.


Place the 2nd layer upside down on the first layer.
Note: I left the cake to set on the cake tray. Should have left in to cool down on a baking paper in order to get a nice bottom.


5 layer cake completed with crumb coat.


Mixing the colours to get purple...


Decorating the castle with purple desiccated coconut ice cream cones...


Coating the 5 layer cake with top coat.
Note: Colour a bit different is bcos I bought the wrong chocolate to make buttercream. This one is brown chocolate with top of white chocolate, thus having the deeper rose colour effect...


Fixing the cones onto the cake.
Seeing this photo, it makes me feel that I did not keep the chocolate buttercream in the fridge to set for long enough, thus it has a bit of watery feel / texture.
You have to press the cones slightly down to fix it onto the cake.


Attaching the waffles to make the door and windows.
Leaving the cake in the fridge to set.
Note: I forgot to take out the bottom layer of the baking paper (beneath the cake), thus after the cake set, it is very difficult to take it out...Remember to take this out before going into the fridge.


A peek to the completed Princess Castle cake...

Princess castle cake.

Note: I should have taken the right side of the cake and turned it to be the front of the cake. My cake slided one side bcos i added too much buttercream on that side so the buttercream set inside the fridge and it shrinked... The choc deco on the door is not even enough as it looks quite watery...should have added some more butter and left it in the fridge to set/stabilize...




Overall
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This is my first "bold" try in a 5 layer cake, and I am not quite satisfied with it...But there is always a room for improvement!!!

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