CHOCOLATE CASTLE CAKE!

JR, had his birthday party on Fri, and he was so adament about having a castle cake, we looked on the internet, but found a whole lot of girlie castle cakes, and he looked at me and said I will not have a girl cake, I told him trust me son I promise it will not be girlie! Needless to say he loved it! and it was not hard to make at all!

CASTLE CAKE!

For the cake base I used

TEXAS CHOCOLATE SHEET CAKE!

2 Cups Flour

2 Cups Sugar

2 Eggs Beaten

3/4 Cup Sour Cream

1 teaspoon Salt

1 traspoon Baking Soda

1 Cup Butter or MArgarine

1 Cup Water

4 Heaping Tablespoons Cocoa

(1)In bowl mix together Flour, Sugar, Eggs, Sour Cream, Salt and Baking Soda. Set Aside

(2)In saucepan bring Butter, Water and Cocoa to boil. Remove from heat. Cool.

(3)Stir into Flour mixture and beat with electric mixer until smooth.

(4)Pour into greased 9x7 and 5x6 pans.

(5)Bake at 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes, cool for 15-20 mins and spread with Chocolate frosting.

CHOCOLATE FROSTING!

4 1/2 Cups Icing Sugar

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1/2 cup Butter (Is a must don't substitute for margarine)

1/4 cup Milk

4 Tablespoon Cocoa

(1)In a bowl mix together Icing Sugar and Vanilla and set aside.

(2)In saucepan combine Butter and Milk, bring to boil, set some aside to add Blue Food coloring in for the water for the Moat. When you have taken some out then add the Cocoa and bring to boil again.

(3)Remove from heat and add to Sugar and vanilla.

(4)Mix well with mixer at medium speed.

ASSEMBLING THE CAKE!

You will need!

9 Ice Cream Cones with notches made on them to look like Turrets, cut out a window on each.

Chocolate Icing

Blue Icing

Lego Knights

Lego Flag

2 Lego Squares

(1)On the 9x7 cake, spread some icing in the middle, take the 5x6 cake and put it on the part you iced.

(2)On the corners of the 2 cakes cut our a little bit of cake from them, so the Ice Cream cone Turrets will fit in snug.

(3)Ice the whole cake now, leaving some extra icing for touch ups.

(4)Ice the Ice Cream Cone Turrets, with a little icing not to much, you still want to see the design of the cone, it adds to the look.

(5)Fit the Turrets into their spots on the corners, take the extra icing and fill in gaps between the cake and cones.

(6)The extra Cone goes on top of cake as the Prison Tower.

(7)Take the blue icing and spread it aound Castle to look like Water in a Moat.

(8)Put the square Lego pieces on for the Door and Draw Bridge,

(9)Add the Lego Knights and the Lego Flag on top of the Prison Tower.

(10)The Castle is complete!