Circus tent cake (with sugar clown)

Our upstairs neighbor has a daughter. She's a tiny little thing, with a enormous temper and a distinctive preference for colours and circus.

This lively girl turned 2 years old this past weekend, and when her mother suggested to me, that she did not feel up to baking a cake for the birthday party, I readily offered my cake making services (voluntarily and free of charge).

She seemed ever so relieved and grateful, that I didn't tell her, that I offered to do the cake for purely selfish reasons: I so wanted to do a circus tent! Unfortunately, it didn't turn out at all the way I had imagined it - strange how that seems to be the case with cakes as with live!

The cake is four layers of Victoria sponge, orange syrup and raspberry butter creme. Very yummy!

The clown (which I was actually quite pleased with) is 100% sugar.