For my 1-year-old daughters 1st birthday, we had a circus clown party. I decided to make a circus clown face cake. I used white cake mix and made 1 round cake and 1 square cake from the mix. The circle was the face, and we cut the square into pieces to make the triangle hat, … Read more
I decided to make this Merry Go Round Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I have never decorated a cake before. I bought the packet cake as per Woman’s Day cookbook which was the easy part. The decoration was what took a lot of time. I was still adding to it when guests arrived. … Read more
I made this pink pony Homemade Girls Carousel Cake for my daughter’s third birthday. I purchased the plain craft wood horses from a craft store and then gave them a couple of coats of white non-toxic acrylic paint, let them dry and then got to work with my glue gun some felt and a little … Read more
This carousel cake was inspired by some of the cakes that are already on this site. I made it for my daughters first birthday. The base is two 9″ round cakes. I used yellow boxed cake mix and put a little colored frosting in between the layers for a fun effect when it was cut. … Read more
I got the idea of a circus/ carnival party for my daughter’s third birthday after seeing a TV show where they did it. I found this Circus Tent Cake idea on this site and adapted it to fit her party. This cake took two mixes to make. I started with a 9X13″ cake and a … Read more
I made this JoJo circus cake for my nephews first birthday. Originally I had no clue who JoJo was and wasn’t able to find much on cakes with that theme so I looked at many sites and combined those ideas with my own vision for this JoJo’s Circus cake. I used the JoJo’s circus characters … Read more
I made this Circus clown cake for a circus party. I should mention that I am a clown and also entertained at the party. I thought it would be appropriate for a clown to bring a clown party cake! I used 2 Duncan Hines yellow cake mixes. I baked the party cake in two 6-inch … Read more
I made this Carousel Birthday Cake for a friend’s daughter’s 5th birthday, which had a circus theme. The idea came from other examples on this web page. The base was a double layer chocolate cake made in round 9 inch pans with white butter cream frosting. The basic cake was assembled, then top covered in … Read more
My niece Maya was having a carnival birthday party for her seventh birthday and requested a carousel cake. I was inspired by many of the cakes I viewed on coolest-birthday-cakes.com. I purchased some toy horses and glued ribbon roses to them to make them more decorative. I baked two cakes, one vanilla and one chocolate … Read more
I baked this carousel cake using a recipe in two 9″ round cake pans. Then I baked sugar cookies in zoo animal shapes-zebra, lions, giraffe, elephant and the letters of her name. Bake lots of extra cookies as they tend to break. I gave the extra unbroken ones to people who didnt want cake. The … Read more
We simply used a 2-layer round cake for our JoJo circus cake and colored the frosting for the hat. The hair was made of Twizzlers and the nose and pom-pom on the hat were chocolate covered cherries. The eyes were drawn on with black decorating gel. We put a couple toothpicks in the cake to … Read more
For this cake I just used Wiltons clown pan and went crazy with the colors!s clown pan and went crazy with the colors!