I know this is kind of late, but my niece turned 9 in June and I was put in charge of making her cake. I love to bake, so naturally I accepted the challenge. I went to work planning a nice, simple princess cake. My goal when creating my own cakes is to create something exciting and new and this time was no different. I thought first of just a simple sheet cake, nothing difficult or crazy. Easy to transport and just enough for all the guests. Then I visited my Aunt and Uncles home for my grandmas party where my Aunt Ginny heard I was making the cake for my nieces party. She asked if I wanted to make a castle cake and without thinking it through my big mouth opened and out came yes! Oh I know, I'm crazy. She stepped out of the room and brought back a Wilton cake box with a picture of a beautiful castle cake on the front. It had two tiers, some flowers and towers; how hard can this be right? Wrong, oh so wrong. It consists of 236 TINY flowers! 236! Yikes, what did I get myself into?!
As we drove the 45 minute drive home I quietly planned my path of action to finish this cake. The party was the following Sunday and I know this will take longer than a day to do. My plan was the shop for everything on Tuesday and Wednesday, start the flowers on Thursday, ice what needed to be iced on Friday and bake the actual cakes on Saturday. Most of my plan 
worked out. My younger sister became my right hand man and actually proved that if she takes her time she's pretty good at piping. We completed the flowers with the help of my mom, I successfully make at least 10 batches of royal and butter cream icing and baked four cakes.
worked out. My younger sister became my right hand man and actually proved that if she takes her time she's pretty good at piping. We completed the flowers with the help of my mom, I successfully make at least 10 batches of royal and butter cream icing and baked four cakes. Saturday came and it was time to really put what had to go together. I iced the cakes and packed everything that needed to go, which included my "cake emergency kit" which was made up of basically everything that I had used up to that point to make the ca
ke. I was scared to pack this cake into the station wagon and drive it two hours to West Virginia, but it made it without any harm. My sister and I finished stacking and decorating and finally it was finished! It was beautiful! It was a difficult task, but besides spending $100+ on supplies and the stress of getting it done on time, it was fantastic. Let's just say I'm not planning to do it again anytime soon...
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ke. I was scared to pack this cake into the station wagon and drive it two hours to West Virginia, but it made it without any harm. My sister and I finished stacking and decorating and finally it was finished! It was beautiful! It was a difficult task, but besides spending $100+ on supplies and the stress of getting it done on time, it was fantastic. Let's just say I'm not planning to do it again anytime soon....
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