My daughter was in love with monkeys so she requested a monkey birthday. This homemade 4th birthday monkey cake was so much fun and delicious. I found a homemade banana chocolate cake recipe online, baked it in a stainless steel bowl, then decorated it with homemade buttercream icing. The ears were made of a cupcake … Read more
I was asked by a friend of a friend if I could make a 3D monkey cake. I ummed and ahh’d about how I would create it. For a few nights I woke up with different ideas as to how I could make this happen. The preference was chocolate cake, so I baked a cake … Read more
I designed this monkey cake for my son’s first birthday. We did a jungle theme for his baby shower and in his nursery, so we thought we’d continue it for his first birthday too! We also like to call him our little monkey man, so we thought it fit well. I actually designed this cake … Read more
I made this Purple Monkey Cake Idea for my daughter’s 1st birthday. I decided on a monkey theme and went to work researching monkey cakes. After an exhaustive search, I never found anything but brown monkeys, which I found to be boring for a one year old girl’s birthday cake. I originally made my cake … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday he wanted a Curious George CupCake Birthday Cake, so when I was thinking about how to design this cake, I came to the conclusion that George’s head is round like a cupcake! I baked a bunch of cupcakes, put them together to form the general shape of a monkey’s head … Read more
I made this Homemade Curious George 1st Birthday Cake for a friend’s son’s birthday. Because I enjoy the decorating process more than the baking process, I just used a cake mix to make this cake and some cupcakes. It is frosted with buttercream frosting (confectioners sugar, milk, butter, Crisco, vanilla). I drew a Curious George … Read more
I made this monkey face cake for my sons 2nd birthday and he loved it so much!! I used a bowl to bake the monkey face cake in and frosted it with canned chocolate frosting. I tinted canned white frosting yellow and used it for the mouth and inside of the ears. I also tinted … Read more
My husband and I decided to do a Curious George theme for our sons first birthday party. I found the idea of monkey cupcakes on this site. I used a yellow cake mix and canned chocolate frosting for the cupcakes. To decorate them we chose M&Ms for eyes, mini fudge stripes sliced in half for … Read more
I started out with a Wilton Animal Cracker cake pan for the face. I had to build up the nose a little with more cake so the face would be flat. I copied off the Curious George mask from pbs.com and used it as a template. I blew up the mask to the size that … Read more
I made this Monkey Birthday Cake for my niece’s second birthday. Her birthday is in June and she had a beach monkey theme. I used a glass bowl to bake the cake for the head and a cupcake cut in half for the ears. I just used store bought chocolate frosting, and made a small … Read more
This Monkey Going Bananas Cake is a Marshmallow fondant birthday cake. The theme was jungle monkey going bananas. First tier is Zebra stripes. Second/ top tier is giraffe and the topper is jungle leaves with coconuts surrounding the birthday monkey and his many bananas. I made this for my grandson’s 1st birthday. It served about … Read more
This monkey cake was made for Avery because she loves monkeys! A 3 tier cake covered in fondant that I airbrushed in lite blue. The monkeys were hand made by me (2nd time making monkeys, it gets easier). I also made fondant bananas and painted black on them to look more realistic. I made fondant … Read more