How do I make a novelty cake, in the shape of a castle or church?

plumb_pete

Can I get advice on making a novelty cake, in the shape of a castle or church? I'm a fan of KCD, the games, and either a castle or a church sounds simple enough to make, having cake layers stacked on each other, and putting the fondant on and around it to make the color and detail of the building. Square buildings are the easiest (I think), but If I need a tower, what would I need? And how do you make the stacks of cake? Also, there are some...

Originally asked by Arne on Stack Exchange (cooking) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Bake cake, use knife to remove non-building shaped parts. Kinda like "get block of marble, remove non-David shaped parts" as an approach to copying Michelangelo's David. You can refine details at the frosting layer if the basic hunk of cake is basically the right shape. Be aware that the cake space of "good sculpture material" and "nice cake to eat" are frequently separate. Round towers or conical roofs might rarely be baked in round or conical molds, but are mostly just trimmed that way from square or rectangular chunks of cake. A two sloped peaked roof is going to be cut from a rectangle, and careful cutting would let you use the offcuts for the next layer by flipping them. Some are also...

Full answer by Ecnerwal: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/136589 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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