I made a second batch to use for decorating tinting a bit at a time to use for Georges face, the lettering and the border. For the dark brown portions of George’s fur I went ahead and used some of my leftover chocolate frosting from the inside of the cake. It was the perfect color! … Read more
I baked the Monkey Birthday Cupcakes the night before (from a box of course) and decorated them while my almost 1-yr old and 3-yr old’s napped. I had planned to use M&M’s for eyes but apparently had eaten them all so I scrounged around and found Jelly Bellies and leftover Valentine’s Day candy hearts. I … Read more
These Monkey Birthday Cupcakes were for my son’s first birthday party to go with a monkey cake I made. The cupcakes are made with a regular chocolate cake mix. Then I put a regular Nilla wafer for the mouth area secured with a dollop of buttercream. Then I cut a mini Nilla wafer in half … Read more
This is a Monkey Cupcake Birthday Cake that I made for my son;s 1st birthday party, which was monkey themed. The cupcakes are just made from a box of banana supreme cake mix and the icing is just a store bought chocolate icing. The cake used 26 cupcakes and two tubs of icing. The banana … Read more
This Monkey Cake and Cupcakes was for a monkey themed birthday party. It was for baby Aiden’s 1st birthday. Right away I knew I wanted to do monkey’s and bananas. For the cake- I used the Wilton monkey shaped pan. The cake flavor is vanilla and I topped it with homemade buttercream frosting. I used … Read more
For my son’s daycare class, the Monkeys, I decided what better birthday theme to go with than – monkeys. My son loves them, and what 3 year old doesn’t? I scanned monkey cupcake images on the internet and chose to use Wilton’s idea as my guide. I printed and cut out the template shapes on … Read more
I made this Curious George cake for a friend of mine whose son loves Curious George. It was a huge hit! I started out by drawing Curious George. For the head, I traced the 9″ round cake pan on a piece of paper and drew from there. I made a 9″ round cake (for the … Read more
I decided to have a Curious George themed birthday for my son’s first birthday. As most moms out there will see, there is no cake pan or design specific to Curious George, so I had to tap into my unfound artistic skills. I used a 12″ square cake pan to bake 2 boxes of regular … Read more
I was having a monkey party for my sons first birthday (you know…the only birthday that Mommy gets to pick the theme)! I was going to try the Martha Stewart monkey face cake but it was a little too serious for me. I used store-bought cake mix (he’s only 1). I had to use 2 … Read more
This monkey birthday cake was made for my grandson Lucas 11th birthday party. He wanted a monkey that looked like his character in an online video game. I was successful except for the color. When I went to bed the night before the monkey was pretty orangey but when I woke up the next morning … Read more
This Curious George cake took 1 1/2 tubs each of ready-made chocolate and vanilla frosting. (You will have 4 colors out of the vanilla frosting: yellow flesh white and black.) Flavor a portion of the vanilla frosting with banana extract, tint it with yellow food coloring and use it for the layer in between the … Read more
I used a paint brush on the back of the parchment paper to help transfer the gel when I turned it over onto the cake. I used a small star tip and medium consistency icing to fill in all the features. I used the writing tip and thin consistency icing with a touch of piping … Read more