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How to make a pink castle cake

Lemon and Chocolate Strawberry Easy Castle Cake Recipe

Delicious moist cake in the shape of a castle is super easy to make. Even if you can't frost very well this cake will turn out beautiful enough for a princess.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 16 people
Calories 320 kcal

Equipment

  • 2 8" square cake pans
  • 2 6" round cake pans
  • oven
  • Mixer

Ingredients
  

Cake batters

  • 1 box cake mix Lemon
  • 1 box cake mix strawberry
  • 1 box Instant lemon pudding
  • 1 box instant chocolate pudding
  • 2 c sour cream
  • 1 c vegetable oil
  • 1 c water
  • 1 zest lemon
  • 1 zest orange
  • 8 eggs

Buttercream Frosting

  • 4 c Powdered Sugar
  • 1 c softened butter
  • 2 tbsp cream or milk
  • strawberry jam spread between layers of cakes
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • 1-2 drops red food coloring use a little at a time to get the pink color

Turrets for castle cake

  • 5 kiddie ice cream cones
  • 5 pointy sugar cones
  • 1 pkg white chocolate chips
  • sprinkles.

Instructions
 

Lemon Cake

  • Into mixing bowl add lemon cake mix, lemon pudding, 4 eggs, 1/2 c oil, 1 cup sour cream , 1/2 c water and lemon zest.
  • Mix on high until well combined.
  • Pour into oiled and floured 6" round pans. (you will have leftover batter so you can make another round or cupcakes and freeze)
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 28-30 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in middle comes out clean.

Strawberry Chocolate cake

  • In mixing bowl add strawberry cake mix, chocolate or vanilla instant pudding, 4 eggs, 1 cup sour cream, 1/2 cup oil, 1/2 c water and zest of small orange.
  • Mix on high until well combined
  • Pour into oiled and floured 8" square pans (I used aluminum pans)
  • Bake at 350 degrees for 28-30 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean

Buttercream frosting

  • Into a mixing bowl add all ingredients except jam, Mix on low to incorporate ingredients and then on high mix until fluffy. Adding in more or less cream to the frosting.

Ice cream cone turrets

  • Melt half a bag of white chocolate chips in microwave. 30 seconds at a time and stir until smooth.
    Dip ends of sugar cones in melted chocolate and add sprinkles.
  • See instructions in blog post for how to put the castle cake together and tips for frosting
Keyword cake, castle cake, chocolate strawberry cake, lemon cake