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 wanted to attempt a tiered cake for the ‘carnival’ themed birthday of my twins. I made the 2 10″ cakes using 2 boxes of BC’s vanilla cake mix. And the filling for this layer was strawberry jam. The 8″ and 6″ tiers were BC’s dark chocolate fudge cake with mocha-chocolate mousse filling between them. … Read more
For my sons 2nd Birthday party I decided to make a JoJo cake for him. I took a photo of JoJo to the local copy store and had it blown up as big as I wanted the party cake to be. I baked two 9×13 cakes according to the directions. I then froze the cakes … 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 cake I made for a friend’s son. He had a carnival themed party. The cake is double layer cakes with buttercreme filling between. I then covered with fondant. It took me 2 fulls days from start to finish but it was all worth it to see his face.
I was having a hard time trying to come up with a homemade clown birthday cake idea for my son Joseph on his 4th Birthday and after looking on the net, I decided to just design my own. The first thing that I had to do was cut out a couple of templates using some … Read more
I made this circus clown cake by baking 58 cupcakes. I sliced the top of each one to make them flat. Then I arranged them in the shape of a hat and clown face with a collar! I used Wilton spray color on parts of it and decorated it colorful and festive for a circus … 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