I made these monkey cupcakes for my daughters 9th birthday! She loves monkeys! I used the Wilton animal cake pan. I cut off the ears and placed them so that it looks like a monkey and not a pig! I used Betty Crocker frosting with Wilton peach color for the area around the monkeys mouth. … Read more
I made this Monkey 1st Birthday Cake Idea for my nephew’s 1st birthday. The palm tree is made up of cupcakes and the center of the tree is the little cake that he got to make a mess with (and he did)!
I used a 9″ round cake pan with chocolate cake for this Curious George Cake. I trimmed the sides slightly to straighten it out and trimmed diagonals at the bottom sides to form the jaw. I used the trimmed off pieces for ears and his piece of hair at the top. Mixed a bit of … Read more
My son loves Curious George so I decided to make him a Curious George Birthday Cake for his 2nd birthday. I put this cake together after looking at a few different designs on this website. My goal was to make this cake as easy on myself as possible, so I wouldn’t get too stressed out. … Read more
I used the same general idea from another post on this site. Thanks for the great idea! Instead of nutter butters for the ears I used mini Nilla wafers with a bit cut off. Basically they are yellow cake mix, chocolate frosting recipe from the back of the Hersheys unsweetened cocoa box, eyes are Cheerios, … Read more
I wanted a sweet (as in precious) cake for our sons first birthday that went along with the adorable invitation. The invitation was from peekaboopumpkin.com and was a blue monkey. “Join us for some birthday fun our little monkey is turning one’” was the theme. I ordered the cake from the grocery store and asked … Read more
For Curious George I enlarged a party napkin on a photocopier, traced it onto a piece of parchment paper and when the yellow frosting had crusted a bit used a sewing needle to poke the outlines onto the cake. When I lifted up the paper there was a very delicate dotted outline of George that … Read more
I had a request for this monkey cake from my son’s best friend turning 22 last month. I used a round spring foam cake pan for the head and a Wilton oval (football) shaped cake pan for the face and then I cut an additional oval in half for the ears. The cake itself is … Read more
This monkey cake was for a first birthday party for a friend’s son, and the theme was monkeys. I used a Wilton monkey shaped cake pan for this. I made the Wilton buttercream in white and also a set in chocolate. To make the light brown, I mixed a little of the chocolate in with … Read more
My son was turning one and even though I’m not a big baker/cook, I really wanted to be able to say I made him his first cake. After thinking more on it and doing some research I found some examples of some really cute Monkey Birthday Cupcakes (from this site actually) and I just knew … Read more
I made this Monkey birthday cake for my youngest son’s 1st birthday. I used the Wilton Monkey pan to bake it. I iced the sides in white icing and then made the outlines on the cake with tip #3. I tinted some icing brown and some with a tiny bit of peach and brown and … Read more
