Haunted Castle Cake

• 1 cake baked in a 23 cm x 33 cm (9 in. x 13 in.) pan
• 2 recipes of chocolate icing
• Decorations including: fruit leather, 5 straight pretzels, 3 pointed ice-cream cones, chocolate sprinkles, caramels, a bar of chocolate or cookies
• A large serrated knife (use only with an adult’s help), a table knife, a kitchen knife

With the large knife, cut the cake as shown. Discard or eat one of the small pieces.

Assemble the cake as shown. With the table knife, use the icing to attach the small pieces.

Set aside a small amount of icing for steps 4 and 5. With the rest, ice the entire castle, keeping any straight edges as straight as possible.

With the kitchen knife, cut a flag out of fruit leather and use icing to attach it to a pretzel. Gently poke the pretzel through the tip of an ice-cream cone. Repeat with the other cones.

Stand the ice-cream cones upside down on your work surface and ice them. Cover them with sprinkles.

Place the cones on the towers.

Arrange the caramels along the top of the castle.

Decorate your castle. Make a drawbridge with a bar of chocolate or cookies. Use the remaining pretzels as drawbridge chains.

Options: Make a fantasy castle by icing the cake with white icing and decorating it with light-colored miniature marshmallows, sprinkles and other decorations.

Look at a more detailed version of this craft.

This craft is from Bake and Make Amazing Cakes by Elizabeth MacLeod. Available from Kids Can Press.