I needed a large cake for my granddaughter’s first birthday and since she was having a clown perform at the party I came up with this happy clown face cake. I used a 14” round for the face; an 11”x15” oblong for the bow tie and hat. I habitually use a yellow cake mix for … Read more
For this JoJo circus cake, I used a regular boxed Funfetti cake to make a round-layered cake. Then I frosted it with store bought vanilla frosting and drew JoJo on top with a toothpick. I colored the rest of the frosting the colors I needed and started with the hat and a star tip. I … Read more
This Clown Cake is a chocolate layered cake filled with whipped peanut butter and iced with a homemade chocolate butter cream using 1/2 butter & 1/2 shortening. It’s important to ice your cake using thin consistency icing. To make your base smooth – ice your cake and smooth it with your spatula. Let the cake … Read more
I dont have any step-by-step pictures to share but I hope you can post this picture of my daughter’s 2nd birthday cake. She loves JoJo Circus, but to my surprise there was not much out there to help me with her cake. My Mom and I made her cake for her 1st birthday so we … Read more
I used a large circular tin to bake the chocolate sponge for this Clown Birthday Cake. When baked, I rounded and smoothed the edge. I then covered in a flesh coloured sugarpaste (by the way, flesh colour is VERY annoying to colour on a large scale, it took me about 2 hours to knead the … Read more
For my daughter’s 5th birthday she requested a JoJos Circus theme. I looked all over for a cake idea. I could not find anything I liked so, I ordered a JoJo Circus coloring book online and found a picture of JoJo. I enlarged it to fit on a half sheet cake. I then traced the … Read more
I had a circus theme for my son’s first birthday. The circus clown cake was a white cake that I made from scratch from the Better Homes and Garden’s cook book. Excellent recipe. The frosting was Wilton’s recipe for buttercream. Also excellent. I used 2 12-inch round pans to make the bottom layer, 2 9-inch … Read more
For my sons third birthday, he begged for a clown cake but I’m not really good yet at making flat cakes and drawing faces. So I came up with the idea to make a JoJo circus cake with the toy characters. I used a 10-inch and 9-inch cake pan for the ‘stage’ and then used … Read more
This was my first clown cake. This idea came from the Wilton Cake Decorating Courses I have taken. I used a double layer white cake. The top is iced white, with the side iced yellow. I used polka dots of various colors around the side of different sizes. The clowns were made from different sized … Read more
I received the new “bake and fill” cake pans for Christmas this year and thought I would use them to bake my daughters birthday cake. I planned to make a cake where the cake is a dress for a Barbie doll but after I baked the cake my husband suggested I make Jo Jo’s face … Read more
I made this first clown cake for my niece when she turned one. To make, I baked 2 cakes, one 8″ round and one 9×13 rectangle. When cooled I cut the rectangular cake into a triangle, taking note to the width of the round cake. I used the round pan and curved short end of … Read more
My sister made this JoJo circus cake along with another cake. The other cake just said “happy birthday haliegh” and was done in the same colors, size, and shape. This JoJo circus cake was a homemade chocolate cake and all she did was made homemade icing. She had to make lots and lots of colors. … Read more