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
For this circus clown cake make a 6 or 7 inch round chocolate flavor cake with chocolate butter cream icing. For the clowns: use tip 21 in upright position and pipe out icing generously to make the body. Then insert tip in the front base of body and draw the icing straight out for legs. … 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
This is a circus cake that I had made for my best friend’s children. They had a combined birthday party that was set up with all of the games from a carnival. I actually thought of the idea. After looking online at all of the things that I would be able to use, I brain … Read more
For my son’s 4th birthday, we thought it would be fun to have a Circus/Carnival party theme, so I made a Homemade Big Top Birthday Cake (an adaptation of a cake one of my friend’s had made). The cake part was fairly easy. I baked three 9 x 13 cakes and stacked them together, icing … Read more
This homemade Clown Birthday cake consisted of a 10″ round cake for the face, and a 9″ x 13″ cake from which the hat was cut. I used blue and golden yellow icing to make the variegated hat rim and tassle. The hat itself was decorated with light blue icing with a swirl pattern in … Read more
My husband and I find it fun to decorate cakes, but were not math wizards and to get this circus clown hat cake up we did break out some geometry.I baked 4 round layer cakes and cut them in half, then sized 11 progressively smaller circles, cut them out and stacked them with buttercream. After … Read more
I made this Merry Go Round Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. I made it with help from the Womens Weekly kids cake book and cheated and used packet cake mixes. I am no baker (hence the packet cake mixes) and was so proud when I managed to put this together. It was challenging … Read more
I made this Carousel Cake Design for a church dessert auction. The bottom is a regular 2 layer 8 inch round cake. For the canopy, I used rice krispie treats covered in modeling chocolate and all the decorations are also chocolate. I found a mold for the horses and painted them with melted chocolate and … Read more