This monkey birthday cake is so easy! Bake the cake in an oven-proof bowl and leave enough batter to make one cupcake. After cooling invert the bowl onto your work surface. Cut in half to make layers. Fill and frost the head with chocolate frosting. Cut the cupcake in half and attach to the head … Read more
I made a three layer Curious George cake for the guests with two banana layers and a chocolate layer in the middle. I copied a picture of Curious George off of the website and used that as a stencil.I made a smaller circus tent cake just for Béla. That one was more complicated. I also … Read more
There is not a cake pan for Curious George Cakes, so when my niece turned one they wanted Curious George – and I wanted her to have him! I had only had one cake decorating class so I had to think of something pretty simple. This was it – just stars.
I made this monkey cake for my son’s first birthday. I made it to look like his favorite stuffed animal that he brings everywhere! I used a buttermilk birthday cake recipe from Nigella Lawson and Ricks buttercream frosting from Allrecipes(made with 3/4 butter, 1/4 shortening). I baked the cakes in a 10 inch round, a … Read more
I made a two layer 9″ banana cake from a box mix and frosted it with a thin layer of buttercream frosting for this Monkey Cake. I then decorated it with a marshmallow fondant I made from a recipe I found on Wilton’s cake website. I colored the fondant for the cake, the monkey, the … Read more
I made this Monkey Birthday Cake Design for my son’s first birthday party. He saw the cake pan at the library and couldn’t stop smiling. The older children insisted we do this one for him. Got the pan, then simply frosted it as suggested in the directions. I used some round chocolate candies for the … Read more
This Monkey Birthday Cake I made for a super sweet little girl who is crazy about monkeys! It was super easy. The cake is a chocolate box cake baked in a 10 inch pan. After it cooled, I cut a little off the top to even the cake out. The part I cut off, I … Read more
The Monkey Baby Shower Cake was a 3 layer 14 inch round cinnamon cake. I used cream cheese icing and piped it all over as stars, and made the rattles, baby bottles, safety pins and letters out of chocolate. The monkey is also made out of solid chocolate, and it ended up weighing 4 lbs! … Read more
I got inspiration for this Curious George Birthday Cake from a few cakes on this site. I used two box mixes of yellow cake mix, one was split between two 9″ rounds, one box was split between on 9″ round, and one bread pan (this one took longer than the round). For the main cake, … Read more
When my nephew was in the hospital, I told him I would make him a banana cake when he got out. So when he did, I prepared a Curious George cake in keeping with the banana theme. It was a double layer 10″ chocolate cake filled with banana flavored frosting. I used copious amounts of … Read more
I decided to make this monkey face cake for my daughters first birthday. I thought it would fit, as she was born in the year of the Monkey for the Chinese New Year. I made it a banana cake, and used cocoa and butter for the icing, as I know you shouldn’t give infants chocolate. … Read more
My son loves monkeys so we decided to have a “MONKEY” party for his 3rd birthday. My ideas for this monkey birthday cake came from this website. I wasnt able to get the Wilton Animal Cracker Tin that was recommended – so instead I cooked 3 large Victoria sponges. Two cakes were stacked together and … Read more