Here it is folks! Would you make this cake?

But imagine being a four or five year old and that cake showing up at your party. I would have swooned and never forgotten in.

No judgement! Your videos are so great and entertaining, not because of the finished product, but because of your fabulous personality! And do you know, a child would be thrilled with the cake!

Regarding flour-y products in a box, my grandma taught me to use a piece of wax paper. Lay it on the counter, measuring cup on top of that, then tip box and gently pour into the cup. The wax paper collects all the spill over and what you level off. When done, it's easy to use the wax paper to add spill over back to the box.

I know this is a year old, BUT- next time, try the 1960 Betty Crocker Party Book. Good old "Betty" and her minions of home economists and food stylists give detailed instructions on how to make a similar cake, on page 22. But MY favorite is the puppy dog cake on page 21. He bears a striking resemblance to Snoopy. Second favorite: Magic Pumpkin Cake on page 25. "Betty" doesn't mess around.

"I threatened to do it, and I'm doing it." That should really be your tag line. Honestly Anna, this made my day. You did way better at this than I ever would have... I excuse all of my cake decorating disasters as "rustic." You made a pretty convincing carousel, and if it were me, there wouldn't have been a single animal cracker left. Oh, by the way, that small tapered offset spatula... I love that!! I've never seen one around here, but I'll have to dig one up. Another amazing one Anna!

Ok, I’m old. I know this recipe. This cake is a play on an old candy called “Circus Peanuts.” They were orange and almondy flavored stiff marshmallowy candies shaped like peanuts, colored orange, even with the crinkly looking peanut shell texture. The cake is decorated circus-ish carnival-ish with those candy flavors. Shaped like a circus tent or carousel. My husband liked the peanut orange things. I did not. But, the cake was popular with kids way back then when a circus was a big deal. Yours looks GreaT!

Yay someone who is on my cake decorating level! Thanks for realistic looking recipes! ❤❤ Hapoy early birthday 🎂

If it won't make cupcakes or a sheet cake, I'm pretty terrible at stacked cakes. My daughter has always asked for a good yellow cake with chocolate buttercream. I've gotten a little better in icing it. It really is a dreamy cake. It's never very pretty but tastes oh so good. It's my one and only stacked cake.

I actually have a set of measuring spoons that are labeled dash, pinch, smidgen and nip! ❤

I’m running around the corner to Dollar Tree for those spatulas! My children would have been thrilled with that cake, as I’d have made a big deal about it and been so excited. My Mom told me every year about the day before I was born, how she spent it with her childhood friend, while she was in Labor, walking through the Grocery store. Her Mom was here to manage the household and was anxious for Mom to get to the Hospital (she had delivered 5 children at home) afraid I would be born “before the doctor got there”! Mom was 99 in October and died just before my birthday & I missed hearing the tale again. I also was excited for my children’s Birthdays, telling them how excited I was for their arrivals and their Birthdays each year! What cake would we have that they chose? I wish I could have made this for one of my little ones. I so enjoy your videos.❤️❤️

Beautiful, fun, and vintage! Thank you! Peace

Hi Anna! Thank you for sharing your birthday creation with us. 😊 I think you did an amazing job on this. 👍👍 I know you were concerned about it not rising, but I think the problem was a difference in the size of the vintage cake pan and a modern one. Your cake looks bigger in diameter, so this is not about your baking skills! I hope it tasted good after all your effort. Again, great job! I thought it looked yummy! Take care and have a wonderful day! 😊🌸🌷

I loved every moment of this video. I feel like I’m actually in it!!

I am so glad you still posted it. Still a good job.

I'm not reading the other comments, just hoping the Cake Decorating Police didn't give you too hard a time. I enjoy your videos which are always fun, upbeat and relaxing. You have a great personality. The cake looks really cute, be proud of your good work! This is one of the few videos in which I have not seen plates, bowls, mixing bowls, candy dishes and cookbooks that have graced my life. I remember showing my Dad, in 1973, my new Corelle dishes with the green flowers at the border. I also had the matching mixing bowl set and the little casserole set. So fun!

You have a great cake story. I love it and I'm sure it tasted great! So glad i found your channel

My cakes are usually in a 9x13 lol because I can’t frost cake sides! Great attempt! We had the frosting and graham crackers too ! Happy birthday around the corner !

@Cooking_the_Books 🎉🎈Anna, I think you did a marvelous job on the cake 🎪 Both the making & decorating. Trust me just like the food pictures in books & commercials now , the food NEVER looks like the picture. That being said ,not having all the tools you needed, I still think it turned out Superb . How did the cake end up tasting? btw I love reading recipe & Cookbooks like a book. ~Anita

I have found when cake decorating that doing a layer of the base icing and then chilling it makes adding the other icing (in your case the pink) easier.

graham cracker sandwiched with icing in between! Yes, I loved that 💚

Your cake looks very fun and cheerful!

You’re so brave and you actually did a nice job. BUT. When I saw the thumbnail in my feed I thought it was salmon and some food made to look like a cake. 😂.

This had me laughing. You're very entertaining, and I really appreciate these videos.

Hi Anna 😊 your version has character 👍🏼 I bet it tasted good! I’m a terrible cake and cookie decorator! I made Christmas sugar cookies for Chris to take to work one year 😐 We ended up with 3 dozen very ugly cookies and he took store bought to the office.

I watched this before bedtime and I cracked up. I'm laughing with you. We've all been there before. Food that doesn't resemble the recipe picture. In the 1960s, I remember making white icing using Crisco instead of butter. Keep on cake making. ❤

I just put out those spatulas today... thanks for the Dollar Tree love

The 1960's housewives on tv were always baking cakes !

You're so hilarious and such a nice girl! I'm binge watching your videos and I'm having great fun 😅 thank you!

Hey. I have this cake in the oven as I type. It looks like it's rising very well; it's quite high. I am using a 9" round cake pan. I didn't know how much shortening you used, so I just put in 1 cup. I'll let you know how it all turns out. I can't find any peppermint sticks at Walmart rn, so I am thinking of using some vanilla wafers that I have on hand. We'll see lol

My mom just confirmed she still has that geen identical bowl, but sadly, the smaller white one with green blossoms was broken sometime in the last 20 years.

I think it is a cute little cake

Here are a couple of tips for a flat surface on top: 1) invert the cake so the risen, curved top faces down. 2) fill the center whole with a round cookie (my mom used Oreos for chocolate cake and Nilla wafers for yellow cake) to the level of the top of the cake surface. Then you can frost the top and it will look like a smooth, unbroken surface. Your cake looked adorable, though!

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I love it and you score 💯🏆 in my book for making your own bday cake. If someone made me this cake for my bday I would absolutely be crying because of how nice it is!!! 🙂💜

The sugar in my cranberry bread is a dry ingredient too.

Happy Upcoming Birthday! Your cake looks much more cheery to me than theirs.

I know this is an old video, but I loved it…you made me laugh out loud…really enjoy your channel…thanks for the hard work!!

First off, just let me say you shouldn't have to make your own birthday cake. That said, you are way too hard on yourself. That cake turned out pretty well and had you made it for a child, they would have been delighted! It looked to me like your frosting was a bit soft and whipping it longer to get more air into it would have made it easier to control. Something to remember for your next cake with frosting. Your comment about a cake stand / turntable is very true. Put one on your Christmas / birthday list. The plate you used is lower in the center than on the edge which is making your job tougher to frost it. I love watching you cook and the vintage element makes it even better. Sending you hugs from Cincinnati, OH.

It's so cute!!!

I just found your channel a week ago and your videos are so fun to watch. I had to revisit my cookbook collection that I recently thinned out. I have re purchased one or two vintage cookbooks😂Thank you for actually making these recipes. I just collected the books and they have dust on them. You make the recipes come alive and fun.

You did a great job!!!!

It turned out beautiful. Happy birthday!

I would like to see this one redone with the peanuts, and to see how much it might improve the second time. Maybe it'd be something to celebrate the next milestone of subscribers since you said you'd never do it again.

I enjoy your work so much ❤ You make me feel like trying new things, because you make it fun and you don't act like you are perfect 😊

This is great, love it, this looks delicious... just pile that delicious frosting on there, lol... my favorite part of eating cake. You did a great job... I always did the frosting and graham cracker thing as well, and still do this today. I think your cake is pretty... have a great birthday!!! Enjoyed this.

Fun!

Nailed it! Happy birthday!

Happy birthday! We have 2 birthdays this weekend. I've gotta make a doggie cake and a human cake. Spreading icing between Graham crackers sounds yummy. The cake is cute.

This was so fun to watch !!! I think you actually did better then you think. Happy Birthday!! What day is it ? Hope you have a great weekend.

Awwww... I would have loved to see you taste it... even later. I get eanting to enjoy it for a while... but I'm curious as to how it turned out for edibility. Lol. Next time if you do something like this and don't want to taste it just then... you could do a follow-up short of tasting. 😊

I think it came out cute! :-) Happy Birthday!

really great recipe.. I like it.. thank you for your effort and sharing, my friend.. 👍

Thanks for sharing the delicious recipe 🤌🤌👋💚🇹🇷

I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing ☺️

Loved this

Mine didn't turn out as pretty as yours, and it fell apart a little bit, but it was delicious

So cute

It is fun!

Great job! That cake was impossible!!

Omg watching you make this was so great. Dannnggg. Gram crackers and icing would be amazing!! Lol “this cake looks nuts”. It is so good anna!! I’d have a slice with you 🥰

Hey, I think you did a great job on this! 🎉

Perfect !! Amazing preparations and so nice presentation !! 👍

To me it looks somewhat like a peppermint candy😊

Happy Birthday ! Mine is on the 9th of May. Enjoyed your video very much ! 👍😎👍❤️

It's look so delicious and yummy well prepared cake

I like your cake better, I hope it tastes good!

I am glad to know I am not the only one who has to use scissors to open those dan bags inside the box. In this day and age can’t they team up with ziplock bags? I hate making layer cakes I can never get the sides frosted. Great attempt!

Hey Anna!! I thought you did a great job making this cake!! It looks so cute! I am the worst at cake decorating. so I am super impressed. Besides to me..its more about the taste!

Vintage cake looks delicious

hello! new subscriber here! i love how entertaining and raw your video is and your cake looked so lovely❤ i'm sure it tasted delicious😋

I couldn't tell what the magazine picture was. When you said it was a carousal, I thought yours looked more accurate.

This is my rule that I constantly break and I regret it every time. However much frosting ANY recipe EVER calls for, double it. Worst case scenario: you have extra. But I love the cake. Want to know how it tastes!!

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Bahah I’m so glad you tried this! Love that grey mixer! And the bowllll! 😍 😂😂😂 ¾ cup of crushed peanuts laying around bahah, hate forgetting ingredients 😅 Lol, a carousel… from the thumbnail, I totally thought this was some kind of fancy sushi donut 😅😂 Animal cookies are 🔥😂😋 This IS cute though, like seeing it come together, very cute lol! Happy belated birthday!! ❤️

Happy Birthday! I really want to know how it tasted.

Better than I could do😂

You made my day 😅

From the thumbnail, I thought there was lox on top. I'm glad that's not what happened. Cute video, though.

Don’t you hate it when you try to open the plastic bag and it won’t open?? I hate that so much. I always have to cut it too! This is one weird cake. What is the origin? Is it from the cake flour or ingredient company and they thought that this cake would sell their ingredients?? I know they did that in the old days - the ingredient company would pay magazines or book authors to create things using their ingredient (like Knorr Gelatin or Pillsbury flour) and then they would publish it and everyone would go nuts? Maybe it was an entry in the Pillsbury bake-off?? Sounds like something from those booklets. Happy early birthday! Enjoy the cake!

How did the cake taste? was there a follow up video on that?

Wow, you are a patient artist😻👍. This looks tasty, but difficult to make. You need to try the biscuits into donuts. Lol. Soo easy. 😊. Your recipes are always fun.🤠

How did it taste ?

Back than like wedding cakes....the recipe was even tripled.....so...maybe that was a standard back than to double....triple etc basic cake recipes?

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What did it taste like?! lol

Looks fantastic but to much work

Eeh. Photo is of a cake made by a pro who does cakes 5 days a week, or it is not even really the recipe and made by a food-stylist; definitely not made by a frantic housewife who does a decorated cake twice a year.. Trying to live up to cookbooks, magazines, and TV perfection is why well-off women turned to Valium and such. The "Eeh, close enough. It still tastes good." attitude of modern women is much better.

I am just going to pretend I didn't hear you say you can't find your cake stand. Seriously.

Are yqou an Aries?

I would not make this cake.