I made this Carousel cake for my daughter’s 3rd birthday. I got the idea from looking at cakes on this website. We had a carnival theme party with games so the carousel cake fit well with the theme. The cake took me several days to make. I started by making a the cakes I would … Read more

I made this Carsousel birthday cake for my son’s 1st birthday. Using 2 8″ chocolate cakes, one for the base and one for the top, I covered each in sugar paste and decorated with both cut out shapes (stars) and royal icing with a little edible gold paint here and there for effect. Each cake … Read more

This is the Carousel cake I made for my son’s circus themed 3rd birthday. I used a few ideas from cakes on this site and combined them into one cake. The cakes were box mix white, 2 12in rounds for the base and 2 8in rounds for the top, all cakes were sliced in half … Read more

This carousel cake is one of my very favorite. It was for my god-daughter’s 2nd birthday. The idea came from a cake that I saw in a Wilton book from years ago. The cake sizes are: 14″ single layer round, 10″ double layer round, 6″ single layer round, and a mini doll skirt on top. … Read more

The Carousel 1st Birthday Cake itself is a 10″ round vanilla cake filled with vanilla butter cream and strawberry preserve, coated with vanilla flavoured fondant. I used a rocking horse cutter for the ponies, cutting the rocker off the bottom. I painted the manes, tails, hooves and saddle with lustre dust mixed with a little … Read more

This Carousel Birthday Cake is composed of a 10″ round spice cake on the bottom, a 9″ round yellow cake and a Pyrex bowl chocolate cake on top. I put the cake together using ideas from this site. I purchased Wilton’s carousel cake horses (it comes with two plates to “build” the cake) which I … Read more

The inspiration from this carousel cake came from my first birthday. My mother had a carousel cake for my first birthday (1976) and I wanted to do the same for my daughter Abigail. My friend (Crystal) and I (Angie) scoured the internet for ideas and even looked on eBay for a kit that looked like … Read more

We made this Carousel Birthday Cake for my son’s 1st birthday, which was a carnival theme. It was fairly easy-even for an amateur. I made 2 12″ round cakes for the bottom and 2 9″ round cakes for the top layer. I found the carousel on eBay-it was from Wilton, but it’s over 30 years … Read more

I made this Pink Carousel Cake for my daughter’s 2nd Birthday, the idea was from the Woman’s Weekly Cake book. It was about a three day job (I work full time). Most important part of this cake is that the inner cylinder and the eight dowel sticks MUST be the exact same height – I … Read more

I made this Merry Go Round Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. I made it with help from the Womens Weekly kids cake book and cheated and used packet cake mixes. I am no baker (hence the packet cake mixes) and was so proud when I managed to put this together. It was challenging … Read more

I made this Carousel Cake Design for a church dessert auction. The bottom is a regular 2 layer 8 inch round cake. For the canopy, I used rice krispie treats covered in modeling chocolate and all the decorations are also chocolate. I found a mold for the horses and painted them with melted chocolate and … Read more

This is a circus cake that I had made for my best friend’s children. They had a combined birthday party that was set up with all of the games from a carnival. I actually thought of the idea. After looking online at all of the things that I would be able to use, I brain … Read more