Icing recipe - please help rescue a 4 year old's cake!

[Piccalilli2]

Hello, I'm hoping someone has a really good icing recipe which I can use to decorate a fairy castle cake for dd2's 4th birthday. Needs to be capable of being pink - I have paste colouring. I'd ideally like something like a chocolate fudge icing consistency so it'll stick well on the towers - basically I need something that will go on as if I'm plastering iyswim. Any ideas? Thanks!

You want buttercream, I'd think

Not sure if your DD would like it (might want to give her a little taste to try first) but cream cheese icing is I think a little bit hardier than buttercream. I usually start with beating together 250g cream cheese and 50g soft butter, then add in icing sugar til happy with the sweetness. Good luck, cake sounds great!

Thank you! I'm going to try a white chocolate buttercream I think. And a lot of edible glitter and silver balls. 4 year olds have no class.

Dan Lepard's meringue buttercream is fantastic - really well behaved and not too cloying. For a white chocolate version, replace half the butter with melted white chocolate, which you beat in before the butter.

Did this work for you? I was in tears trying to make this for my daughter ten years ago!