I found this cake in the Women’s Weekly Kid’s Birthday Cakes book and decided I had to make it for my twin girls (Grace and Hannah) first birthday on the weekend. I started on Friday, making the cakes (I used packet cakes – Betty Crocker Super Moist Vanilla Cake), to keep in the fridge and … Read more

My mom and I made this Carousel Cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday party. The bottom is two 10″ cakes stacked on one another. The top cake is one 8″ cake with a little cupcake sitting on top. We baked sugar cookies on a baking stick and then decorated them to look like horses. Before … Read more

I made this Carousel Birthday Cake going by a picture in one of the annual Wilton Cake Books. My daughter was having a Cinderella party for her 3rd birthday and I thought this was perfect for it. It was a lot of work, but so worth it. I was so proud of this cake!

I made this Carousel Cake Design for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I got the idea from the women’s weekly kids party book! A week before my daughter’s birthday I bought the horses of eBay and painted them and decorated them with stick ons as I liked them better than the ribbon shown in the book. … Read more

My sister in law and I decided that we would bake a cake for her daughter’s 1st birthday party. We were not 100% sure on what type of cake to make until we had a suggestion from somebody to make a Homemade Carousel 1st Birthday Cake. This seemed very adventurous but we were both up … Read more

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