Carousel Horse Cake Topper- A Cake Decorating Video
Learn how to make an adorable carousel cake topper in this free cake decorating video tutorial! We'll also show you how to create a striped buttercream pattern as well as a fondant name plaque.
Ingredients
- We decorated a double barrel 6 inch cake see additional notes below
- Template of Carousel Horse
- Gum Paste preferred - or you can knead tylose powder into fondant to make it stronger.
- Decorative Straws/Lollipop Stick for carousel horse. We used a gold straw.
- Bamboo stick/long dowel that will fit inside of straw.
- Piping Tips: We used a star tip 16 for rosettes tip 3 for borders, Tip 10 for stripes, 352 for leaves
- Gold Luster Dust + Vodka or Everclear or Lemon Extract for Paint
- Coloring Gels: Americolor Warm Brown (Avocado Green + Leaf Green) for leaves, Deep Pink, Ivory
- Cake Comb for stripes- preferably with fairly thick grooves.
- Melted Candy Melts glue
- Piping gel
- Buttercream Frosting- We used 2 batches of our Classic Vanilla Buttercream recipe
- Extruder- We extruder our letters using our Makins Ultimate Clay Extruder
- Miscellaneous: disposable piping bags small paint brushes, cake cardboards (Four 8 inch boards for cake base, two 6 inch boards for bottom and middle of cake)
Instructions
- For the Cake
- Crumb coat cake, chill, apply thicker coat as per video, comb, chill until firm. Add stripes, fill top half with white buttercream, smooth over with hot bench scraper while rotating on turntable.
- Chill and touch up as needed, move to cake base while buttercream is still firm. Our cake base was four stacked 8 inch cake boards, wrapped with plastic tablecloth.
- Hammer through sharpened wooden dowel if you would like additional stability (especially helpful if transporting a tall double barrel cake).
- For the Carousel Horse Cake Topper
- Two days in advance, cut out two gum paste horses using the template. (you'll only need one, the other is in just in case of breakage)
- Once dry, add other details like mane & tail, eye, hooves, etc.
- Once dry, flip over onto bed of shredded paper towels or pillow fluffy and attach straw to back with gum paste strip. Dry for at least an hour.
- Place bamboo stick into top of cake, slide carousel horse straw on top of it to place the topper.
- For the Name Plaque
- This can be done in advance, or it can be applied to the cake while still soft.
- Use a 3 inch circle cutter (or your size of choice) to cut out gum paste rolled to about ⅛ inch thickeness.
- Use extruder to create rope which is used to spell name.
- Attach letters by lightly dampening with water or piping gel.
- Paint name with gold paint created by combining a small amount of vodka with gold luster dust.
- Once name is dry and secure, add plaque to the cake with buttercream.
