Circus Themed Cupcakes for a Circus Party

These Circus Themed Cupcakes are a great addition to any Circus-themed birthday party or movie night. Who doesn’t want their very own cupcakes with homemade Circus tickets on top?

Give your taste buds and tummy a true treat with these delicious and super cute decorated Circus Ticket Cupcakes.

Circus Cupcakes

Circus Themed Cupcakes

Who says that you have to wait for the circus to come to town? With these simple Circus Cupcakes, you can make your own circus fun easily and with little effort.

We made these cute circus cupcakes when we had a family movie night and enjoyed the new Dumbo movie. The kids loved them!

How to Make Circus Ticket Cupcakes

Some of the ingredients you will need to make these Circus Ticket Cupcakes is in this picture below. However, I have the full ingredients and recipe to print out towards the bottom of the page.

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Cupcake Decorating

This recipe only calls for a few ingredients and if you use a box cake mix it makes it very easy to whip these fun circus ticket cupcakes up and have them ready for a birthday party.

12 vanilla cupcakes
3-4 oz. white fondant
2-3 oz. red fondant
1 black edible marker
1 stick butter, softened
2 cups icing/confectioners’ sugar
2-3 tbsp milk
Sprinkles

Yields: One dozen decorated cupcakes

Easy Cake Mix Cupcakes

As the cupcakes cool down (they need to be completely cool before adding any sort of decorations/icing)

To make the fondant circus tickets: use a rolling pin to roll out white fondant until it’s about 1/3 of an inch thick.

Use a paring knife to cut the white fondant in 12 rectangles, approximately 1 inch x 2 inches in size.

Roll out the red fondant until it’s about ¼ of an inch thick. Cut out 24 strips, about 3 inches (or more) in length and ¼ of an inch wide.

On the top and bottom of each white fondant rectangle, press a red fondant strip. Trim where necessary.

Circus Ticket Cupcakes

Use an edible black marker to write out the word “TICKET.”

Then using the end of Wilton icing tip #12, trim out a demi-circle from the corner of each fondant ticket.

To make the icing:

In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar, and milk with an electric mixer.

Gradually increase the electric mixer to high and once all ingredients are well combined, scoop buttercream into a piping bag with Wilton tip #12 attached.

FEEL FREE TO USE A JAR OF STORE BOUGHT VANILLA ICING – to make it easier.