Instructions

1. Ice your cake tiers and stack them together to form a two- or three-layer cake.

2. Decorate the turret pillars and the removable peaks with icing before you attempt to attach them to the cake. Royal icing is a stiff icing that works well for this purpose (see Resources).

3. Cut plastic or wooden dowels approximately 1 inch shorter than the height of each cake tier. You will need one dowel for each turret pillar you plan on attaching to the top of the cake.

4. Pour approximately 1 oz. of candy coating or Wilton's Candy Melts into a microwave safe bowl. Microwave the candy on high power for one minute and then at 30-second intervals until the candy is smooth.

5. Attach the plastic dowels to the bottom of each turret using the melted candy as glue. Place the joined turrets and dowels on a piece of wax paper and allow the candy to cool and harden.

6. Press the dowels firmly into the cake so that the bottom of the turret rests on top of the cake.

7. Attach additional turrets to the sides of the bottom tier of the cake with royal icing or additional melted candy.