SC - Re: Menu for the Feast of St. Valentine

[Huette von Ahrens]

Hi, I am the source.  I wrote about making castle
cakes for the last 25 years in a message I sent last
month.  I use pound cake because it is a stonger cake
to work with, doesn't crumb as badly as others do when
cut and is a "periodesque" type cake.  But my recipes
and my ideas are not period.  They sort of fall into
the idea of spectacle dishes.  And castles are period,
so castle cakes are sort of "periodesque".

I use 3 straight sided 9x12 cake pans for the central
castle.  I build up the batter on the sides and not in
the center, so that the cake will rise evenly.  I use
regular flat bottomed ice cream cones filled with
batter for turrets on the castle and top them with
pointy ice cream cones.  I use jelly-roll pans for the
bailey walls and large cans for the bailey towers and
a square loaf pan for the gate house.  I fasten
everything together with frosting and toothpicks or
wooden skewers.  

I decorate with various candies which are available at
the time of creation.  Hershey bar square for window
or
arrow slits, some square candy for crenelations.  I
use sugar wafer cookies for doors and the drawbridge. 
Chocolate necco wafers make perfect roofing.

My time line for this is if I wish to present the cake
on a Saturday, I bake the cake on Thursday and frost
and decorate it on Friday.  But pound cake does freeze
well and you can make it anytime if you have the
freezer space and then frost it the day before
presentation.

Usually my castle cakes fill up most of a standard
sized card table and will feed at least 100 people or
more.

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to
ask me.

Huette


- --- Aelfwyn at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/15/00 8:30:58 AM Pacific
> Standard Time, 
> owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org writes:
> 
> << Oooooh! That sounds yummy and just what I'm
> looking for. I want to do a 
>  replica of a castle and have been looking for a
> recipe to help me along. 
>  Would you be so kind as to post your recipe and
> sources please!? :)
>  
>  Hauviette
>   >>
> 
> Must be the season for castles or something. I'm
> working on the same project 
> for Northern Lights for April 1. Please do share
> your experience.
> Aelfwyn
>
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