Coolest Carousel Birthday Cake 24

by Maura
(St. Louis, MO)

Homemade Carousel Birthday Cake

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 repainted using acrylics and coated with a gloss sealer. I then superglued "jewels" onto the horses for added umph.

The frosting is buttercream. I made the roses a few days in advance - it took a lot of frosting to frost this cake!

I put the cake on a Wilton rotating cake plate used for decorating - it was fun to spin the finished cake (SLOWLY) at the party!

At the party I gave my one-year-old birthday girl her own layered cake simply decorated with white buttercream frosting and sprinkles, along with miniature animal cookies I had frosted with royal icing. She loved having her own cake to mash her hands into, and the guests loved choosing their flavor of cake.