Old Fashioned Carnival Party
Old Fashioned Carnival Party: A great birthday party for the whole family. From vintage popcorn bags, vintage peanut bags, plastic clown cupcake toppers and fun prizes in vending machine capsules are all totally fun. Lots of fun ideas. Pick and choose which ideas you want. As always, I offer a lot of ideas so you can have choices.
COUNTRY FAIR BIRTHDAY PARTY FREE PRINTABLE COLLECTION
Yield: Makes 48 Mini Cupcakes
Cotton Candy Cupcakes
Prep Time:
15 minutes
Cook Time:
15 minutes
Total Time:
30 minutes
Ingredients
For the Cotton Candy Cupcakes:
- 1 (15.5 ounce) white cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup water
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 Duncan Hines Cotton Candy Flavor Frosting Creations Packets
- optional-sprinkles
For the Vanilla Frosting:
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- up to 2 pounds confectioners' sugar
- up to 1/3 cup milk
Instructions
For the Cotton Candy Cupcakes:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line mini cupcake tin with 48 mini cupcake liners.
- Add the cake mix, eggs, water, oil and cotton candy flavoring to a medium mixing bowl.
- Mix until combined.
- Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full.
- Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes, take out of pan and cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
- Frost and add sprinkles.
For the Butter Frosting:
- Beat butter until fluffy, add vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add confectioners' sugar 1 cup at a time, add milk as needed to reach to correct consistency.
Notes
This recipe is from Lady Behind The Curtain
Hi, I would like to know where I can purchase the carnival cupcake liners. I having a circus theme party for my grandsons and love your carnival soda can cupcakes. Thank you for your time.
Hi Rosemarie, The liners I used for my soda can cupcakes I purchased at Hobby Lobby.
This party looks amazing! I am currently up right now getting ready to make an explosive rice krispie volcano for my son’s 1st birthday, and a soaring pteranadon out of card board boxes 🙂
This type of party is right up our alley! ADORABLE! I actually stumbled onto your site looking at you Pancake Dipper recipe…it’s the Pteranadon Wings item on our Bedrock Brunch 🙂 Then got distracted with all of your other fun recipes and parties…those cinnamon rolls? YES, PLEASE!
Thanks Sarah! I’m so glad you like my site and welcome! 🙂
I’m a bloke that does his best at doing the party thing even down to baking the cakes
Amazing give away would be so good for my sons next birthday 🙂
Awesome Giveaway!!!! I’m doing my daughter’s party in this theme this August 🙂
Such a great giveaway!
I’m always giving Birthday Parties for friends . All these things would really bring some flair to any party .
Such a fun giveaway, Sheryl! 🙂
Sheryl this might be the cutest giveaway I have ever seen! What a fun collection. I would love to win and surprise my oldest son who is turning 12 in Aug with a carnival themed party. Thank you for the chance to win, and as always thanks for the fun linky party. Hugs, Mindie May
oh my gosh… Oh My Gosh… OH MY GOSH! I soooooooo want to win this as this is the theme of my grandson’s BD party in Sept. Thanks ladies for the opportunity to win such an awesome giveaway! I have my fingers, toes, legs and eyes crossed!