My Cake School

Cake Tutorials & Recipes

  • About
  • Recipes & Tutorials
  • Newsletter
menu icon
go to homepage
  • About
  • Recipes & Tutorials
  • Newsletter
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
  • search icon
    Homepage link
    • About
    • Recipes & Tutorials
    • Newsletter
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
  • ×

    Home » Blog » Video Tutorials » Themes and Occasions Video Tutorials » Kids » Miscellaneous Kids Themes

    Circus Tent Cake~ Video Tutorial

    August 5, 2014 By Melissa Diamond 13 Comments

    10 shares
    • Share
    • Tweet

    Hi everyone!

    In this video, you will learn to create a fabulous, fun, (and not too difficult, I promise) circus tent!

    We've been making modeled circus character tutorials for over a week now and they really needed a place to call home. Finally, with this tent, they have one! This video is for our Circus Tent only, so make sure to find our other tutorials listed below for a clown, elephant, seal, lion, and poodle! ;0)

    Have fun!

     

     
    Materials:

    Our tent is made from five 6 inch cake layers. We used three for the bottom tier (approx 5 inches high total), and two 6" cake layers to carve our "cone" shaped tier which is the top of the tent. We formed a point at the very top with one (22g) rice cereal treat. We used our white almond sour cream cake recipe, which is a doctored mix. Any fairly dense cake will do (since there is a bit of carving involved, I wouldn't go with a very soft cake.)

     

    White Chocolate Ganache: (I'm estimating using The Ganacherator ganache calculator) - 1298 g white chocolate + 15 oz cream for a total of 1731 g white chocolate ganache.

    Fondant (we used Liz Marek's recipe) -Approx. 3 lbs (1400g.) for covering the tent, trim, etc.

    Fondant for stripes (we used pre-colored red fondant)

    Waxed Paper (for transferring stripes--optional)

    Shortening for light coating of waxed paper

    Cake Base: We used three 16 inch cardboard cake circles, glued together and covered with a red plastic tablecloth which was then wrapped around the edge with ribbon.

    Additional Colors used: Americolor Lemon Yellow, Americolor Royal Blue for flag, Americolor electric green

    Nail: We used a nail to hammer holes into our cake base, which we then placed toothpick anchors into. Did this for the poodle, clown, and balloons.

    Rice Cereal Treat (22g) to shape into point for the top top- Optional

    Letter Molds for birthday message- Ours was a Martha Stewart Alphabet Mold

    Piping Gel or Tylose Glue

    Toothpicks (or preferred anchoring method)

    FMM Fondant Ribbon Cutter--(spaced to 1 inch) for our stripes. This could also be done by hand.

    Scalloped Frill Cutter (optional) for trim.

    Bubble Tea straws or your supports of choice

    Cardboard cake circles for each tier to rest on

    Floral wire for balloons (stiff gauge-- 20 gauge or 18)

    Turntable is helpful

     


     

    Here are links to the Circus clown & animal tutorials featured on our cake!

    Circus-Characters-MyCakeSchool.com

    How to Make a Clown

    How to make Elephants & Seals

    How to Make a Circus Poodle

    How to make a Lion

    Circus Cake Tutorial~MyCakeSchool.com

    Related posts:

    1. Western Baby Shower Cake and Cowboy Boot Cake Topper Tutorial
    2. How to Make a Clown~ Video
    3. How to Make a Lion Topper~ Video
    4. Circus Poodle!~ Video Tutorial
    5. Train Cake with Spiral Tiers! - A Cake Decorating Tutorial
    « Circus Poodle!~ Video Tutorial
    Our Favorite Scratch Carrot Cake Recipe! »

    Comments

      Leave a Reply Cancel reply

      Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

      Recipe Rating




      The maximum upload file size: 2 MB. You can upload: image. Drop file here

    1. Melissa Diamond September 7, 2015 at 5:03 pm

      Hi Denise- Yes, I think that would be just fine to carve the 6" half-ball pan into the top portion of the cake. I'm glad that you are making it, and it sounds like you are off to a great start --(too funny about the "no clowns" request!) - Can't wait to hear how it goes, let us know if you have any more questions!

      Reply
    « Older Comments

    Popular Recipes

    • Gluten Free Vanilla Cake
    • Peanut Butter Cupcakes (Cake Mix Recipe)
    • Mom's Chocolate Cake
    • Banana Pudding Cupcakes (Cake Mix Recipe)
    • Chocolate Almond Cake
    • 100+ Birthday Cake Ideas

    Featured Holiday Cakes

    • 60+ of the BEST Summer Cakes, Tutorials, and Ideas!
    • 60+ Valentine's Day Cake Tutorials and Recipes
    • Sweet Stick Figure Couple- A free cake video tutorial
    • Lots of Love Cake- A Free Cake Tutorial
    • Eggnog Cake with Eggnog Buttercream- A Scratch Recipe
    • 60+ Christmas Cake Recipes

    More Seasonal Cakes

    Popular Recipes

    • Cherry Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
    • Our Most Popular Cake Recipes of 2022
    • 40+ New Year's Cake Ideas
    • Peppermint Cake
    • Eggnog Pound Cake
    • White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake

    Featured Holiday Cakes

    • 60+ of the BEST Cake Recipes for Spring and Summer
    • A Roundup of Our Christmas & Winter Cake Tutorials!
    • 50+ Thanksgiving Cake Recipes
    • Pumpkin Spice Cake~ {Scratch Recipe}
    • 50+ of The BEST Fall Cake Recipes!
    • Sweet Santa Claus Pull-Apart Cupcake Cake- Blog Tutorial

    More Seasonal Cakes

    • Free Blog Tutorials
    • Free Cake Videos
    • Recipes
    • Contact
    • About

    Copyright © 2023 My Cake School. Melissa Diamond. All rights reserved | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy