A Different Take on a Castle Cake

Well good Tuesday to you all!  I didn't get much of a chance to take a good picture of this cake, so I took it while I was in the car, on the way to deliver it.  It's for a little girl's birthday party, and she loves Sleeping Beauty!  The figurine I bought had on a BLUE dress, and as everyone knows, the dress is supposed to be PINK!  So I covered the dress in gumpaste (tedious work, I tell you), let it dry, then painted it pink.  Baking the cakes was a challenge.  SIX cakes worth of ingredients got wasted because I got cheap with the cocoa (didn't go Hershey's like I usually do, I went store brand).  UGH!  That was a very irritating night, let me tell you!  The cakes baked up rubbery.  It was very very sad!
I made another castle cake a little while back, and I haven't been able to get in touch with the client to get the hardware back, so I bought a partial set off Craigslist so I could mold some gumpaste to make the towers.  It was a long process, as I had to wrap the gumpaste around the mold, let it dry, then remove and do it again.  I made two extra just in case of breakage (something I've learned full well to do!).  After they were dry, I painted them lightly with gumpaste glue and sprinkled them with sprinkles.  The piping was done with tube #17 in a rope pattern.  The stars were made out of gumpaste and sprinkled with edible shimmer dust.  The ones sticking up from the towers were two stars, glued together around wire and stuck in the tops of the gumpaste towers.
Happy Birthday, Princess Veda!