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 $8
I 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.
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Kind of difficult if you are not used to working with fondant - like me!
There is a definite design flaw with this set. The turrets are impossible to stand up right. Thank God I read through that reviews before I started this. Take these few tips…drill a hold at the bottom of all the torrents that go on the cake, insert a wooden skewer and glue around the hole…you can also use white chocolate as the instructions say as a secondary precaution. I would also recommend putting a hole and skewer in the steeple piece too. I glued the turrets that go around the cake to the board and used melted white chocolate to hold it to the side. The cones were also glued on. This is only the second time I have worked with fondant and I really need a lot of practice… but I was able to hide most flaws. If you are wondering what I used for grass it is shredded coconut that I dyed green and used edible glue to stick it down. Lastly, this is a very hard cake so make sure you have a strong board!
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