I made this Horse Carousel Cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I made 2x 8inch round cakes. One was vanilla sponge. The other was chocolate sponge. A packet mixture would be fine. I levelled the cakes and filled them both with jam and cream. I dirty iced the cakes with dream whip. Then covered both … Read more
I made this homemade carousel birthday cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday. The 2 main cakes, and muffin size cake were made from basic vanilla cake mixes. They were covered with royal icing, coloured pink. The centre piece, was the centre roll from cling wrap, covered with musk sticks and fizzers. The horses, I found … Read more
We spent my daughter’s 4 birthday party at a kiddie carnival so I promised I would attempt a Girl’s Carousel Cake. My ideas were largely inspired by this site so I thought I would share my outcome. I used 10″ on the bottom and 6″ pan on the top with a 7″ round to attach … Read more
I made this carousel cake for my daughters 3rd birthday – she was enthralled with carousels. I used the Wilton separator set which my husband repainted in our theme colors. The base is 2-layer 12-inch and the top a 2-layer 8-inch. The color candies in the shell border are thin wafer candies. I molded candy … Read more
I needed a large cake for my granddaughter’s first birthday and since she was having a clown perform at the party I came up with this happy clown face cake. I used a 14” round for the face; an 11”x15” oblong for the bow tie and hat. I habitually use a yellow cake mix for … Read more
For this JoJo circus cake, I used a regular boxed Funfetti cake to make a round-layered cake. Then I frosted it with store bought vanilla frosting and drew JoJo on top with a toothpick. I colored the rest of the frosting the colors I needed and started with the hat and a star tip. I … Read more
I baked 1 16″ and 1 12″ round cake and used a carousel 2-tier kit I found at the craft store. This circus cake requires dowels, I used wooden ones to hold the layers. The inside had confetti in the batter and I used the confetti frosting to decorate. The clowns were piped on using … Read more
This Carousel Child Birthday Cake was fairly simple to construct. I started with two 8″ round cakes and used some wedding pillars to support the 6″ cake top. I iced all of it with pure white buttercream. My daughter wanted “pink and blue stars with horses!” I searched far and wide for plain horses then … Read more
I made this Homemade Carousel Birthday Cake for my niece’s first birthday. I used a regular yellow cake. For the base of the carousel I made two layers in a 12 inch pan. I iced with a butter cream icing to ice between the layers as well as to decorate with. I cut dowels and … Read more
I made this carousel cake in 2005 for my daughters first birthday. It may not look it but this cake was very simple to make. All it is: two round Madeira cakes covered in pink ready roll fondant icing then decorated with different colour tubes of icing. The horses I drew by hand onto card … Read more
This Clown Cake is a chocolate layered cake filled with whipped peanut butter and iced with a homemade chocolate butter cream using 1/2 butter & 1/2 shortening. It’s important to ice your cake using thin consistency icing. To make your base smooth – ice your cake and smooth it with your spatula. Let the cake … Read more
I dont have any step-by-step pictures to share but I hope you can post this picture of my daughter’s 2nd birthday cake. She loves JoJo Circus, but to my surprise there was not much out there to help me with her cake. My Mom and I made her cake for her 1st birthday so we … Read more