I made The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for my grandson’s 1st birthday. He has loved the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle since he was an infant. I took a cake decorating class last year but wasn’t sure I could pull this off. It turned out great! I used 1-1/2 bundt cakes, and … Read more

I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake cake for my partner’s grandson. The cake is made on a base of Victoria sponge cake (homemade) and covered with soft icing. The caterpillar is made from soft icing and hand painted. Recipe for cake as follows: 8 oz each eggs, sugar, margarine, self raising flour. In … Read more

I just made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday for my son’s first birthday. I used 1.5 bundt cakes and a 20cm round cake (although should have trimmed the head a little more). I used packet vanilla cake mix for all the cakes, but made my own icing using icing mixture and butter to create the … Read more

I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for my son’s 1st birthday because he loves the books and can recognize the caterpillar. For the Base: I made a large sheet cake (13x9in) of Yellow Cake from scratch – the recipe can be found here www.mumsnet.com/Recipes/call=RecipePage&pid=2828 (yellow cake freezes really well, so can be made in … Read more

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake was made from a basic Victoria sponge recipe (300g Self Raising flour, 300g butter, 300g caster sugar & 6 large eggs). I creamed the sugar and the butter, and then added the eggs and the flour a little at a time. Once mixed, I divided the mixture between a … Read more

For my son’s first birthday I decided on the “Very Hungry Caterpillar” theme. I actually used this site to get an idea of how to make this cake. I purchased everything I used from Hobby Lobby. They have a great cake making department. I made two bundt cakes. Not the smooth bundt pan but the … Read more

I used a recipe for a chocolate-marble-cake and scaled it up as I needed to bake 3 cakes for the Hungry Caterpillar 1st Birthday Cake. 2 x 25cm bundt cake rings 1 x 15cm round cake tin (you could use a 10cm one, I just had a 15cm one so had to cut a bit … Read more

I made this homemade Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake for my baby girl’s first birthday. I used a yellow cake mix in a bunt cake pan. I cut off the bottom of the bunt cake to make it flat and used the discarded cake to shape the head and the end of the tail. I cut … Read more

I found a picture in a blog of this collection of cake and cupcakes. There are 22 cupcakes arranged to be the body of the caterpillar. Each is iced with green frosting in a swirl pattern. The 12 cupcakes on the outside edge have sprinkles pressed into the frosting to look like hairs. This part … Read more

We decided to make a ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ birthday cake for my son’s first birthday, and it turned out wonderfully! I have no experience in making or icing cakes, but this wasn’t too difficult (time consuming yes – it took about 2 hours to ice!, but not difficult). We used two bundt tins to make … Read more

This Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake was really fun to make. I used a 10″ cake tin and this to was double up to be able to fill with homemade butter cream and strawberry jam. It was left in the fridge and straightened all the sides to look perfect (hopefully). The cake itself was quite difficult … Read more

My son loves to “read” look at books and one of his favorites is the VHC. He loves all Eric Carle books, which is why I wanted to make The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for his first birthday party. I do not do much baking. I am guessing this will change because I have many … Read more