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
I made this Circus Tent Cake for my daughter’s 4th birthday. The bottom layer of the cake is a 14 inch round, the base of the tent is 2 filled and stacked 8 inch rounds, topped off with the wonder mold shaped pan. I used a moist pound cake and filled and iced with buttercream … Read more
This is my clown cake! My 4 year old grand-daughter climbed in my lap and ask “Grandma can you fix me a Clown Cake?” I said yes and her sister said “well we are having our party together-so you need to fix me a flower cake!” So to start I took a cake decorating class … Read more
This circus clown cake is peanut free, dairy free and egg free cake. It was also delicious! We used non dairy buttercream, the Wilton recipe with out the meringue powder. I used the Star tip to make the clowns and the border. On the sides I used candies by Nothin Nutty, they are similar to … Read more
I made this Carnival Ticket Cake (along with popcorn cupcakes also featured on this site) for a 7 year old boy’s birthday party that had a carnival theme. I searched a ton ticket images online and there are literally thousands of varying designs out there to choose from! This design is something I came up … 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
This Circus Tent Cake Idea was made for my son Caleb Joshua’s first birthday. The base of the cake is simply made from a 9 in round cake pan in which I carved the sides inward to allow the “tent” fondant to lay properly. Each layer of the tent red/white was placed on individually then … Read more
This is my first clown cake that I created while taking Cake Decorating Classes at Michael’s Craft Store. The idea of the Clowns on a Drum Cake was in one of Course books that we had to use. It is a two layered cake iced and decorated with tinted buttercream. The body of the clowns … Read more