Candy Castle
MATERIALS:

Cardboard boxes
Paper towel tubes
Duct tape
Royal Icing (or you can use canned frosting)
Assorted candies and cookies
Sugar and wafer ice-cream cones

To make the castle, arrange boxes and paper towel tubes in a castle shape and taped them together with duct tape. (Candy and frosting are heavy, so make sure their structure is well-secured.) Next, spread Royal Icing on the castle and attached candies and cookies, as if you were decorating a gingerbread house. Then make a sugar-wafer drawbridge with shoestring-licorice "ropes," ice-cream-cone spires and fruit-slice windows.

Royal Icing

1/2 cup water
1/4 cup meringue powder (replaces 3 egg whites)
4 to 4 1/2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar

Using an electric mixer, beat together the water and meringue powder until it forms stiff peaks when the beaters are lifted. Add 4 cups of the confectioners' sugar and continue beating until smooth. For a stiffer frosting, add additional sugar.


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