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
I looked everywhere for ideas for a Monkey Birthday Cake. My son LOVES monkeys. This monkey is made out of fondant. The bananas and coconuts around the bottom are fondant as well, but can be made from gum past.
This is a Homemade Monkey Birthday Cake for a baby shower. The mom-to-be loves monkeys so I incorporated that into the cake. The colors of the cake also matched those on the shower invite. The cake was made from buttercream frosting and fondant. The monkey was sculpted using fondant.
This is a Monkey Birthday Cake Design. I started with a monkey shaped cake pan that can be purchased at any craft supply store or where ever they sell shaped cake pans. I melted different chocolates and layed it in the pan to get the top piece that went on top of the actual cake. … Read more
My daughter wanted a monkey birthday cake to go with her birthday party theme. We decided to do the monkey head only with luau flower on the monkey’s head. Background was a lime green with hot pink edging. I just looked at some monkey pictures and drew up a design based on her idea. She … Read more
My little sweetie was turning 5 and she collects monkeys, everything she can get her “paws” on has to be monkey. So she asked of course for what else? Mummy to make a Monkey cake. This, in my opinion turned out really well as I had no idea where to start. I took inspiration from … Read more
My son Chase begged for a Curious George Birthday Cake for his 3rd birthday, so I gave in and made one from scratch. I tore out a George face from one of Chase’s coloring books and used a copy machine to enlarge the face to the exact size of cake I wanted. First I made … Read more
This Curious George cake was made for my grandson’s 2nd birthday party. I used a Bear cake mold from William’s Sonoma and modified it to look like George. With the mold I filled the ears of the mold with tin foil and then fashioned ears out of fondant. For the covering of the cake I … Read more
I baked a 12″ oval cake using package cake mixes according to directions. I frosted it with traditional buttercream icing tinted banana yellow. Then using the Wilton Animal Crackers Pan, I baked the second cake. I had to cut off the ears from the top of the baked cake and reposition them more to the … Read more
This is the Martha Stewart idea from her Kids magazine and show for a monkey birthday cake – I got other helpful tips from this cake site. It took me two tries to get a bowl the right shape; the first one was too flat. The large cake is a large metal mixing bowl with … Read more