Castle Cake

This past week, my baking went to another level....

So For a celebration of 5 birthday's in our class (Janette's was on Tuesday so we celebrated hers and all 4 of the summer birthday's then) I decided to make a cake, as usual.  However, I thought up of a really big great idea of a cake: A giant Castle consisting of 30 cakes.  When I got this idea, I drew up models of it and everything.  But then as I was looking into it, I realized I, in no way, could afford even a third of the cost of this cake. So I dropped the idea.

Shortly after Someone was going through my drawing book and was asking about these drawings in it.  So I shared the great idea I had and the fact that it won't happen though because of cost (I predicted that it would cost up to $60).  Well that person disappeared and returned a little bit later with an envelope containing $65.   They said they saw my passion, excitement and love for this and they wanted me to pursue this.   So they donated the cost (plus $5 incase I went over budget) to see me create this awesome cake.  At first I refused the gift, but after a bit I felt God nudging me saying something that He's been talking to me a lot about lately, "Freely give, freely receive." So, I accepted the gift and started planning the cake.  I made some 3D digital motels first...

So I spent 11-12 hours between Friday and Monday to create this awesome cake.  I was exactly on budget ($65) until I realized that I ran out of cooking spray and a few things, so I ended up being $8.40 over.  Not bad though.  When I went to buy the cakes and frostings, I emptied Walmart's full shelf of one of the kinds of cake.  And thankfully too, for that was all I could afford come to find out.  So instead of 30 cakes it was only 20 cakes.  In the picture of it, the closest side is chocolate and everything else is vanilla, except the little bumps on top which are lemon.  

Here are each of the different steps of the cake making: