24 Exciting Carnival Cake Recipes For Fun Parties

Let us create exciting carnival cakes using these wonderful ideas for your fun-loving kids’ birthday celebration.

A Few Words About Carnival Cake

Carnival cakes are the best fit for fun-loving kids’ birthday events. Carnival itself is a sign of celebration, joy, and fun. Adding a carnival theme to your event can make them lively and exciting.

Carnivals, circuses, and funfairs have always been a part of when amusement parks were not accessible for all kids, and they used to visit spring carnivals or funfairs to have all the fun, rides, candies, and other stuff. But there is something about traditional carnivals that still fascinates some kids and makes them want carnival-themed cakes on their birthday.

If you have a kid like this, check out these recipes. You can also try these cakes if you want a cake with an amusing and circus theme to impress your kid.

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Try these amazing cake recipes to make your carnival-themed birthday parties extra special.

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Carnival Birthday Cake

This Carnival Birthday cake is the perfect cake tutorial to make on your kid’s birthday. This 4-tiered detail has lots of details going on each layer. The bottom tier has a pina colada flavor.

The middle ones have caramel and toffee pudding, and the top one has pistachio and white chocolate flavors added to it. Each layer is crumb coated in different colors. Each cake has a pastel-colored base coat with colorful details, added with buttercream, sprinkles, and colored feathers.

The bottom two tiers have dot art don on them, and the top ones have colorful feathers attached in lines on the side of the cake. This is a time-consuming carnival cake to create, and you will need some help to get a perfect final product.

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Carnival Cake Tutorial

You need to try this Circus Carnival Cake for your son’s birthday. It is made with buttercream and Oreo crumbs filling layers of vanilla cakes. After adding the crumb coat, the cake is decorated with colorful details.

It is a 2-tier cake with simple yet cool details. The first step is to make various circles in different colors and sizes using fondant and stick them on both tiers. This is followed by premade cardboard toppers to add a perfect theme to this cake.

The huge circus topper on the top gives this cake a perfect theme. Make sure to try this awesome recipe for your kid’s birthday.

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A Sweet Carnival Cake By Cat Dela Rama

This tutorial shows a sweet and simple Carnival Cake By Cat Dela Rama. The recipe starts with crumb-coating the cake, then coloring the buttercream. The next step is to add a colorful sprinkle to the bottom of the cake and add zig-zag strips in different colors.

The cake is topped off with some cotton candy and chocolate-dipped apples. The final step is to add cookies and colored donuts on the top and sides of the cake.

Try out this attractive and super yummy recipe for birthday parties and events. It will be a full treat for all your guests.

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Carnival Mega Cake

This Carnival Mega Cake has a lot of details and candies added to it. Carnivals are all about candies, popcorn, and stuff, and this cake perfectly illustrates a carnival. The cake has rainbow-colored layers with a secret chamber in the middle.

The cake is then topped with several premade candies on top and sides. The first thing is adding long candies to make strips on the sides. This is followed by popcorn box toppers on the top of the cake.

The cake is ended by adding more candies and lollypops on the top. It is a perfect carnival-themed cake to make your birthday super exciting and fun.

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A Beautiful Carnival Carousel Cake By Joni Kwan

This video shows an incredible tutorial to make a Beautiful Carnival Carousel Cake. The procedure is pretty fancy and detailed. The cutting and molding of the details is quite a tricky task.

It is a 4-tiered carousel-themed cake with cool details. The first step is to cover each layer with fondant and prepare all details with a gum paste.

The details are then painted in gold, and everything is assembled. The final step is to give the final finish by adding ribbon to the bottom tier. This is a perfect carnival-themed cake to make on a girl’s birthday.

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1-Minute Circus Carnival Cake

Here is a quick 1-minute tutorial to make a carnival theme birthday cake. This is a two-tier cake with red stripes on the bottom and dots on the top. This is then topped with two character toppers, a joker and a girl.

A lace effect with red and blue fondant is added to give this cake the final detail. This easy tutorial needs minimum ingredients to make a perfect cake for carnival-themed parties.

Try this quick cake for your next big event of birthday celebration.

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Circus Cake

This video shows another tutorial to make a super fun circus. The cake is started by covering it with blue fondant and adding red stripes. The next step is to make cool details and cake toppers for this cake.

The cake toppers include circus animal toppers that are added to the top of this cake. The lettering of this cake is done in a special font that looks amazing.

The cake ended with the final details and adding a small circle at the bottom of the cake. Try this perfectly amazing recipe for your next birthday event to give it a circus theme.

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Stunning Carnival Carousel Cake By Verusca Walker

This Stunning Carnival Carousel Cake By Verusca Walker will blow your mind. It is a fancy cake topper made on a cake with a cardboard topper with fondant.

This recipe requires a lot of tracing and cutting the paper into fine shapes. After that, all the pieces are assembled to give a perfect cone-shaped top of the carousel with fine details.

The recipe is perfect for converting your boring plain cake into fun cake toppers. Try this incredible recipe to make your client’s birthdays special and memorable.

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Carnival Cake In Circus

This is a minimal cake with a premade carousel topper and some buttercream details. After adding the base coat, waffle cones topped with colorful buttercream are added to the side of the cake.

The same piping tip is used to add buttercream on top, and the cake is then covered with some lollies and candies. The final step is to add candy floss and numbered candle to make a colorful final cake.

Try this perfect cake with the perfect rotating carousel to make a cute first birthday cake for your kid.

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Colorful Carnival Cake

This is a Colorful Carnival Cake with a rainbow-colored theme to add colors to your events.

Each layer of this cake is a vibrant rainbow color that is covered with a white crumb coat and topped with a colorful scrape effect on the bottom border and piping tip border on the top of the cake.

This is a minimal cake with a low-effort procedure to make your cake extra fun and special. Try this perfect cake recipe to add colors to your events.

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Circus Cake with Tent-shaped Topper

This Circus Cake has amazing details added to it. It is a 2-tiered cake covered with fondant and topped with fine details.

The bottom tier has long triangles added to it, and the top one has green circles. Every detail on this cake is hand-crafted in the video. A tent-shaped topper is also made to add to the top of the cake.

The recipe is ended by adding colorful balls on the bottom border of each cake. Try this incredibly fun and exciting recipe to give life to your carnival parties.

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Circus Themed Gravity Defying Cake

This recipe shows a highly complex and detailed tutorial to make Circus Themed Gravity Defying Cake. It has multiple cakes topped one over another attached to the road.

The first layer is for a carnival tent-themed cake that is decorated with white and red stripes. This is topped with a Styrofoam ball and popcorn basket.

The last layer is a plain white cake with the name written on it. The video shows a detailed procedure to create and assemble each detail on this cake. Try this perfect recipe to throw a bashing-themed birthday party.

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Carnival Themed Cake

Here is another perfect carnival-themed birthday cake to make at home for your kid’s birthday. It is a two-tier cake with minimal base colors and colorful toppers.

Colorful lolly pops are added to the sides to give it a floating balloons effect, followed by premade toppers to make a perfect cake.

The toppers include banners and circus animal toys to give it an incredible theme. Try this incredibly amazing for your kid’s next birthday event.

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Easy Circus Cake

This video shows a detailed tutorial to make a circus tent cake for a carnival-themed birthday. The first thing to make is a tent cake topper with fondant.

The cake and the topper both have red stripes to give it a wonderful carnival theme. Tiny yellow stars are also made to add details to this cake.

The next step is to add the cake topper on the cake and the yellow stars to give a final finish to this cake. This cake adds an incredible theme to your single-tier carnival-themed circus cake.

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Circus Tent Cake For Carnival

This tutorial helps you make a tiny Circus Tent Cake For a Carnival-themed party. The first step is to stack tiny colorful cakes one over another, followed by crumb coating and carving theme to the desired tent shape.

This is followed by adding fondant to the cake and adding stripes and door details to the cake. The final step is to make some carnival decorations around this cake using colorful fondant.

Try this cute and fun carnival-themed cake recipe to make your little one birthday extra exciting.

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Dan Bakes A Circus Cake

Some cake themes are pretty challenging to create, like this one. This is another circus tent theme cake but with extra detailing on the inside.

The cake has red and yellow circular cake patterns inside and white and red stripes on the outside. The next step is to create the door of the tent with curtains. This is a huge cake that gives it a realistic feel.

The final step is to add the border on the roof, and you have the most exciting carnival-themed cake ready to be served at a themed birthday party.

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Clown Circus Cake

This video has an amazing tutorial to make a circus Clown Cake. The first step is to layer the cake with fondant and followed by making the clown’s hat. Both things are done using fondant on the white base of the cake.

The next step is to make half the head of the clown. The whole idea of this cake is to make a clown with a party hat coming out of a box.

After adding all details and finishing off the cake with clown facial features, the cake is surrounded by cupcakes to give it a perfect funfair theme. Try this amazing cake for an upcoming event, and you’ll amaze everyone with your artistic skills.

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Amazing Carnival Theme Cake

Here is another amazing carnival cake to make your day. This one is a two-tiered circus popcorn-themed cake with pink and white stripes.

The cake is first crumb coated and covered with white buttercream, followed by pink fondant stripes. This cake is then topped with real popcorn and a circus animal topper to give a perfect carnival theme to it.

Try this incredibly amazing and easy recipe to make your kid’s birthday extra special.

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Carnival Cake Ideas By Elise Strachan

This video shows a fun tutorial on making a carnival cake treat by Elise Strachan. This recipe has several premade ingredients to make fun details for a carnival-themed party.

The first thing is to make hot dogs dipped in the sauce using Twinkies dipped in red candy melt and served with pound cake cut like fries. Then cupcakes are used to make ice by adding colored icing sugar on top of it.

The last thing to complete your carnival theme events is triple-decker cone ice cream with premade meringue on the top with sprinkles. All these tiny details make a perfect theme for carnival-themed events, birthday parties, or big celebrations.

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Try these amazing cupcake decoration ideas using a carnival theme to add a fun dessert to your events.

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Fun Carnival Cupcakes

This video has fun ideas for making carnival cupcake toppers for a carnival party. The cupcake used in this tutorial is vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.

These popcorns are topped to give them a theme of popcorns, ice cream sundaes, and shaved ice snow cones from the carnival setup. Popcorns are made by adding marshmallows to the vanilla cupcake topped with frosting.

The sundae is made by adding pink and white frosting on the cupcake, giving it the look of ice cream, and topping it off with some sprinkles and a wafer. The third cupcake is covered with buttercream, followed by adding sprinkles in stripes giving it an ice cone effect.

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Circus & Carnival Theme Muffins

Who doesn’t love yummy muffins at their birthday party? If they have a fun and exciting theme added to it, the flavor becomes more amazing. This video shows a tutorial to decorate carnival cupcake toppers with a carnival theme.

Then the first idea is to add marshmallows on the cupcake with yellow food coloring to give it a popcorn effect. The second one is made by dipping a pretzel in chocolate syrup and adding it to an icing cupcake.

The third one has a pink theme that is covered with two colored buttercreams and cotton candy. All three cupcake ideas add a perfect theme to your carnival-themed birthday parties.

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Carnival Themed Cupcakes

These Carnival Theme Cupcakes will add details to your carnival-themed party. It shows three ways to add a carnival theme to your cupcakes. The first one is making realistic popcorn cupcakes by cutting, twisting, and painting the marshmallows.

The second one is to make a tiny slider with a yellow cheese slice made with cupcakes cut into half with filling in between. The final cupcake idea is to create an ice cream sundae using a cupcake topped with white cream and chocolate syrup and ended off with sprinkles and red candy.

Try these amazing carnival cupcake ideas to make your event fun and exciting.

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Carnival Cupcakes

This is a super simple and quick tutorial to make carnival cupcakes with popcorn boxes. This recipe makes a perfect side dessert for your themed birthday party. The procedure is easy and requires very low effort to create.

The procedure starts by putting the cake batter in the popcorn molds and baking them. This is followed by adding pink buttercream icing swirl on the top with a piping tip.

Try this perfect cupcake idea to add a new dessert to your menu with minimum effort.

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Carnival Popcorn For Cupcakes

Carnival is all about food, games, and a fun time with your friends and family. This Fun Carnival popcorn Cupcake recipe will help you throw a full-blown carnival-themed party for your kid.

This video shows a complete tutorial on converting small marshmallows into popcorn using simple techniques. The procedure requires cutting, pressing and twisting, and adding food colors to make popcorn kernels.

This process gives a realistic popcorn look to your marshmallows that can be added to the cupcakes or cakes to give them a carnival theme.

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