Another Castle (HUGE)

So by now you are probably thinking that I am one of those people that start blogs and after a few stops. Nope, I have just been extremely busy. As well as it is very heard to type while baking and withing the time that i have not written i have actually baked and decorated two projects. Oh and I also decorated a hotel for a pastors retreat.
I am still waiting on the photos from the pastors retreat, and the cookie monster cupcakes did not exactly turn out picture perfect, so i will tell you about the caste i made.

This project actually come from a friend of mine seeing pictures of my daughters birthday cake.
They saw the castle on a hill cake and commented on the picture that they know that their daughter would really like something like that. So i offered to make her one as a birthday present. She had several choices, but this is the one she picked:

This cake was created by the company Simply Sweets

First i was very nervous about making this cake, but then i got very excited. It would give me another opportunity to work with fondant, but was a nice combo since it used icing as well.

This cake took me a total of 12 hours to make:This is not including the time i had to wait for the cake to cool. First i started with the fondant flowers, door and windows.I cheated a bit by using store bought fondant. I did not have a flower cookie cutter so i had to cut each flower out with a little knife. Then i laid them out to dry. Then i started baking the cake. The cake was made from scratch and it took me quite a while to make the batter. However, 24 eggs later and lots of stirring, it was in the oven. The cake consisted out of two vanilla cakes and one chocolate cake. Cutting them each in half, it ended up being a 6 layer cake.The towers were made out of store bought strawberry jelly rolls and store bought fondant.
I assembled the cake alternating each layer with homemade butter cream vanilla on one level and chocolate icing on the next.My favorite part of the cake making was placing the flowers and tubing the leaves and grass with green icing. Actually, no i am wrong. My favorite part was the next day when i saw my friends daughter's jaw drop open when the cake came around the corner. That was all the reward i needed to make it all worth it.