The monkey head was actually baked in 3 bowls – 2 of the same size (to make a ball) and one very small one, they were stuck together with a simple chocolate buttercream and skewers then trimmed down to more resemble a monkey face. The face of the monkey cake was put together in 3 … Read more
I made this monkey cake for a friend’s daughter’s second birthday. She wanted a monkey cake so I used boxed cake recipe to make two 9in layer cakes. I used one cake for the head. The other round cake I used to carve out two ears and a number two (for the birthday girl’s personal … Read more
This Monkey Birthday Cake Design was for my very own cheeky Monkey. I baked a 10″ cake and one 8″ cake, the 8″ one just in a sandwich tin as I didn’t want it to be as deep as the bigger cake (very rich chocolate cake recipe). I drew a template on to a piece … Read more
This Monkey Birthday Cake was for my son’s first birthday. I also had cupcakes with monkey flags, stuffed animal monkeys and bananas hanging from the trees in our yard, monkey face cookies I made. So much monkey stuff – even a monkey pinata! For the cake I used a 6 inch round cake pan and … Read more
I made this Mod Monkey cake for my son’s 1st birthday. It consists of a 3-layer 8 inch cake and a 3-layer 6 inch cake. His party was at lunchtime on a Saturday, so I baked the cakes (chocolate) on Thursday afternoon, leveled them, put the layers together with buttercream and then crumb-coated them. I … Read more
This Curious George Cake was made for my son’s third birthday. The base layer is a 9×13 chocolate cake with vanilla icing tinted yellow. I used the Wilton tints and they work great. For the monkey face, I used an 8″ round and cut a cupcake in half for the ears and used another part … Read more
I made this Curious George Birthday Cake for my daughter’s birthday. She just turned three. As you can see she is a big Curious George fan. I used the animal crackers pan. It was very easy to use and decorate.
The idea for this monkey birthday cake came from the coolest-birthday-cakes website. I baked a 9×13 sheet cake. I used a basic cake recipe but a boxed cake would do. After baking I froze the cake to make it easy to cut. I cut the shape of the monkeys face out of the sheet cake. … Read more
I got the idea for this monkey birthday cake online but I cant for the life of me recall the website. I baked a regular cake-mix cake in a 9″ x 13″ Pyrex pan. Then I frosted it a very light blue with buttercream. Make sure you put only a thin layer of icing on. … Read more
I used tan and brown frosting and copied the mouth, nose, and eye placement out of a Curious George book. I was afraid I would screw up the pupils in the eyes so I used peanut m&m’s to solve that problem.
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