I made this for my daughters 2nd birthday and she loved it. I used a 2 layer 9? round vanilla cake for the bottom and 2 layer 6? round chocolate for the top. The bottom was placed on a revolving cake plate which made decorating much easier and gave the carousel turning capability for presentation purposes.
I placed a pillar set on top of the bottom cake and just randomly decorated the plates with frosting. I purchased the mini horses online and you can use them as ornaments later instead of being stuck with a carousel cake kit because really how many carousel cakes are you going to make?
I then decorated the top cake and placed it onto the pillars and voila! To decorate the cakes, I used a basic butter cream recipe and star tip since I am not very good at frosting décor. I used colored melting chocolate and free handed “ELLA” onto wax paper along with some decorative hearts. Once cooled, I peeled off of wax paper and placed on to cake where desired. This is a nice alternative for those who aren’t good when writing with frosting. That way if you screw up who cares because you can just do it over!
Also to get a nice smooth surface, once the cake is frosted all over, place a butter knife in hot water and then run over the frosting this will smooth out and shine over the frosting. It is important to keep dipping the knife in the hot for this to work. This is pretty simple, just time consuming but worth it!
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