Have you noticed how castle cakes are quickly rising to the most requested list of cake designs for wedding receptions and golden anniversaries?

These fairytale cakes are also quickly making their way to the table tops of company functions, community events, themed celebrations, and 9-year-old birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese’s.

As a cake decorator, I find this all very exciting! Imagine the potential.

If you are a cake designer who can consistently create unique and breathtaking castle cakes, you will soon have wedding planners, professional caterers and doting parents lining up at your door.

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That’s not all.

Faithful fans of renaissance fairs, role playing games, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy continue to throw more and more elaborate fantasy-themed events, which of course provides a special opportunity for the castle cake designer who is willing to get creative and make castle cakes to match these themes.

And just as cake decorating contests have reached a level of national recognition, castle cake designs are starting to be viewed just as much a work of art as an appetizing conversation piece.

If you survey accomplished castle cake designers on the subject of a winning castle cake, some may tell you their secrets.

One of these secrets is that you must keep the intricacy of the cake’s design at the top of your list. You must be adventurous enough to map out new territory with your castle cake if it is to be distinguished from the others.

For example, one such creative cake designer masterminded a three-foot high castle cake sculpture and then adorned it with colorful flags, an edible drawbridge, and a surrounding moat made of raspberry chocolate mousse.

To top of this clever creation, the adventurous designer tucked fairy lights just inside the castle cake’s turrets and drawbridge, bring a new level of magic and charm to this already amazing castle cake.

If my prediction is correct, the castle cake craze is on its way up, and it will be a long while before it levels off.

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