40th Engineer Castle Cake

Recently I tackled the task of creating a Castle cake

I took about 80 Rice Krispy Treats, a round cake pan and a knife and went to work.

After about 30 minutes of mushing RKT into a cake pan I had pillar one



I had also started to think

"Man this is harder than I thought it would be"

About an hour after that I had pillar #2 and alittle piece of the middle.

At this point I started to feel good about myself because

1) It started looking like a castle

2) The hardest part was behind me, or so I thought.

2-3 hours later is looked like this

Then I had a crisis

Red Frosting I bought, was not sticking to the RKT

So I had to go old school and whip out the powdered sugar, frosting and Wiltons Red dye.

 Thing was, I was not prepared to make frosting.

So I called the one person I knew would have the goodies I needed.

HH6Diva.

The phone call went something like this:

HH6: Whats up lady

Rib: Frosting Crisis

HH6: What do you need I am on my way!

About 30 minutes later she arrived and we went to work.

We started mixing dye and frosting.

Ran into another issue, true red was not coming out true red

it was coming out hot pink.

Now as much as I love hot pink, Im sure my CSM would not appreciate a Hot Pink Engineer cake.

Now HH6Diva is quiet savy when it comes to social networking.

So she went to work on twitter asking her "peeps" how to get true red frosting.

We got all kinds of answers.

But the one that seemed to make the most sense was, keep adding dye until it looks red.

3 jars of Wiltons dye later, it was ENGINEER RED!

Here is a picture of Ann addin' some Engineer red frosting to the RKT Castle.

The final product

The next day

Red hands and all

Ann took this picture of me cutting the cake at the social

What is the craziest cake you have ever tackled?

-M-