Castle cake, take one

Castle cakes can be as simple or as difficult as you like. This one was pretty straight forward, mostly because I used meringue butter cream and lollies instead of fondant and piped decorations. I'm pretty sure I'll try variations on this, hence the take one.

The cake was made from four quantities of a standard butter cake, baked in a 25 cm pan, 12.5 cm pan and lamington tray. The turrets were cut from the lamington tray using a medium sized scone cutter, topped with waffle cones. The whole thing was cemented together using chocolate ganache and lots of cake dowels.

Here's a shot in progress:

And here's the finished product:

So there you have it, about the easiest castle cake going. From all reports, the birthday girl enjoyed it. I certainly had fun putting it together.