29 Amazing Circus Cake Ideas to Make for Any Birthday Party

If you enjoy baking and decorating fun and colorful cakes, we are sure you’ll find something to impress you among these Circus Cakes.

A Few Words About Circus Cakes

If you love baking cakes and making new and interesting cake designs and often find yourself looking for new cake ideas and you love circuses, then these Circus Cakes, cupcakes, and even cake pops will impress you, and you will definitely be making at least one of these recipes. Some of These Circus themed cakes are Circus tent themed, and some are circus animals, clowns, or even magician themed. Here you will find different recipes for this cake and different creative designs you could make if you are considering throwing a circus-themed birthday party.

Suppose you have never gone to a Circus before. It is where many entertainers perform different acts, like clowns, magicians, trained animals, tightrope walkers, acrobats, and even musicians. Going to a Circus was and still is a fun family activity that leaves unforgettable memories. So if you ever went to a Circus or love going there, you will love these cakes and fall in love with Circus Cupcakes.

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Gravity Defying Circus Cake

This cake has the wow factor that will impress you and your guests at a party and is easy to make. No one can guess that you made it yourself in your kitchen.

This cake is a gravity-defying circus cake. This is a moist chocolate cake covered with buttercream to prevent it from crumbling while decorating it.

This recipe will show you a step-by-step tutorial for making every part of this beautiful cake, so you get the best results that will impress and make you proud.

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2 Tier Circus Cake

This cake is a two-tiered striped circus tent cake. To make this cake, you can buy an already-baked cake to save time and effort, or you can bake your favorite cake recipe and rest it overnight before decorating to prevent it from crumbling while working on it.

For the decorations, you will need to cut red and white fondant stripes and decorate the bottom tier of the cake with them, as shown in the recipe, to get the circus tent look.

The recipe will show you a step-by-step tutorial on making all the fondant decorations for the cake, so you will not find it hard to make them. Make this circus cake for a birthday party or gift it to your circus-loving friend and enjoy!

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Rainbow Colored Circus Tent-Themed Cake

This is a 3D circus-themed cake. This cake is perfect for throwing a circus-themed birthday party for one of your kids or a loved one.

For this cake, you will need to bake several cakes with different colors to imitate the colors of a rainbow to get this colorful striped cake slice when you cut the cake up.

You will need to stuff and cover the cake with buttercream to help support it and get it ready for decoration, then cover the cake with fondant as shown in the recipe to get the best results out of this cake. This Circus Cake will show everyone how good of a baker you are.

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Pink Circus Birthday Cake

This beautiful circus ringmaster cake is a red velvet cake covered and stuffed with vanilla buttercream. If you haven’t tried red velvet cake yet, it is a red-colored cake with a mild chocolate flavor and a hint of tartness due to the cream cheese in its frosting.

You can also customize this cake and bake your favorite cake flavor. This cake is decorated using multiple colors of fondant, and the cake topper is also made of fondant with no hard-to-find or difficult-to-use kitchen equipment.

This cake is pink and gold. If your daughter’s birthday is coming up and she loves circuses, then this Circus Cake is the birthday cake that she will never forget.

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Blue and Red Simple Circus Cake

Do you want to treat a family member, a friend, or a loved one who loves the circus with a cake they will never forget? If you answered yes, check out this simple yet stunning circus-themed cake.

For this Circus Cake, you can bake your favorite cake recipe if you love your home smelling like a bakery, or you can get an already baked cake from the nearest bakery store and decorate it as the tutorial shows.

This cake is completely covered with blue fondant and then covered with red fondant strips to give it a circus tent look. It is then decorated with little stars made with fondant and an easy-to-make cake topper.

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Oreo Flavored 2 Teir Circus Cake

If you are thinking of hosting a circus- or carnival-themed party for your friends or family, this carnival cake recipe will inspire you to make different types of circus-themed desserts.

This Circus cake is an 8-inch classic vanilla cake stuffed with meringue buttercream, crushed Oreo cookies in the middle, and covered with buttercream from the outside to prepare it for decoration.

The decoration of this cake is really simple, and your kids can help you with it. You have to cut up circles of different fondant colors and stick them to the cake randomly, as the recipe shows, and you will get fantastic results that will impress you.

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Circus Themed Bamba Cake

This is a circus-themed birthday cake. For this cake, you can bake your favorite cake recipe or buy an already-baked cake from the nearest bakery or grocery store and decorate it as shown in the recipe.

This Circus Cake is covered using multiple colors of fondant, and the clown cake toppers are also entirely made out of fondant.

It is very easy and simple to make, and you can save the cake toppers in an airtight container in the freezer, use it whenever you want, and impress everyone with this beautiful cake.

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Clown Circus Cake and Cupcakes

This clown-themed circus cake is a moist chocolate cake covered and stuffed with vanilla buttercream to keep the cake moist and give it extra support to prevent it from crumbling while decorating it.

The head of the clown is made of the same cake, and you will just need to carve it using a knife and then cover it with white fondant.

In this recipe, you will see a step-by-step tutorial on how to decorate this cake and make the smallest decoration details that will make it stand out and unforgettable.

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Colorful Fondant Circus Birthday Cake

The base of this impressive cake is a simple vanilla cake stuffed with chocolate and vanilla buttercream to give the cake extra flavor and make it more fun.

The cake is covered with chocolate ganache and then covered with red and blue stripes of fondant to imitate the look of a circus tent. Small details of white fondant are added to the cake to make it more breathtaking.

This circus cake is perfect for a birthday party, and it will definitely be the star of the party, or you can even gift it to your friends.

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Circus Birthday Cake with Animals Cake Toppers

This cake is three 6-inch simple vanilla cakes stuffed and covered with vanilla buttercream made at home by combining butter, powdered sugar, and a little bit of water to make this tasty, simple, and delicious buttercream.

In this recipe, you will see an easy step-by-step tutorial on using buttercream to cover and decorate this cake. It will also teach you how to make perfect little cake toppers to decorate the cake with.

If you have never worked with buttercream before, this is the perfect Circus Cake for you, and it will definitely impress everyone who sees it.

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Semi-Fondant Circus Birthday Cake

This Circus Cake is a vanilla-flavored cake covered and stuffed with vanilla buttercream. This very beautiful yet simple cake is a semi-fondant cake that is very easy to make and decorate, so if you usually try to find new and creative yet easy ways to decorate your cakes, then this cake will be perfect for you.

To make this cake even easier and less time-consuming, you can bake a cake mix or buy a cake from a bakery and just decorate it.

Make this beautiful cake and bring it to a circus-themed birthday party. You can also gift it to your circus-loving friend, who will definitely love it.

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Circus Birthday Cake for a Boy

In this cake, you will see how to turn an ordinary cake from any grocery store into a breathtaking one. All you have to do is pick the cheapest cake from any grocery store, as its decorations do not matter; you will be removing it and remodeling it yourself.

This cake is completely covered and decorated with fondant, which you will find very easy to work with if you follow the recipe’s instructions.

Decorate the Circus Cake with a simple and fun cake topper to make it even more fun. Make this cake for your kid’s birthday, and enjoy!

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Circus Themed Cake With Animals Cake Toppers Tutorial

If you are planning on throwing a birthday party for your son and are looking for birthday cake ideas that are impressive and easy to make at the same time, then you have arrived at the right place.

This Circus Cake is a chocolate cake covered and stuffed with chocolate buttercream. You can also bake your favorite chocolate cake recipe for this circus-themed birthday cake or buy an already-made cake.

Follow this recipe step by step and learn how to make fantastic cake toppers using only fondant. Make this cake for a birthday or bring it to a family gathering.

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Gothic Circus Theme Cake

If you are looking for new cake ideas to make that will impress you and everyone else who sees it, then take a look at this Gothic Circus Cake.

This cake has chocolate flavors and basic ingredients like flour, eggs, and cocoa powder. It also has sour cream to make it extra moist and flavourful.

This cake is completely decorated using colored frosting and has no fondant, so if you don’t like how it tastes or don’t know how to work with it, you will love this cake.

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Multi-colored Circus Themed Cake

If you are looking for new and easy cake designs, then take a look at this cake. This cake is one of the easiest circus-themed cakes you could ever make.

For this cake, you just need to bake three cakes with different colors, or you could buy the cakes from the nearest bakery or grocery store to save yourself some time.

This cake is completely decorated with buttercream and has no fondant, so if this is what you are looking for, you should make this circus cake for a family gathering or even a picnic, and everyone will love it

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Circus Train Cake Tutorial

This recipe will show you a step-by-step tutorial on how to make this train Circus-themed cake. This beautiful cake has different flavors of cake that you could bake yourself or buy an already baked one and work with it.

This recipe will show you everything from how to make the fondant from scratch to how to use it to decorate the cake.

This cake is the perfect birthday for a kid who loves going to circuses, and it will leave great memories for him. You can also make this Circus Cake and gift it to a friend or a family member.

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