Take a look at these cool homemade Bert and Ernie cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I love Ernie so this year for my 23rd birthday party I needed to make a large Sesame street character cake that would feed 100 people. The body was made in a turkey basting pan, the head from a regular round cake pan and then the arms, feet, nose and hair where cut from a … Read more
Ernie and tub are entirely edible. I used 3 cake mixes, oval for tub, round for head, small bundnt pan for neck, loaf pan for cutting arms. I covered the Sesame Street Ernie Fondant Cake in marshmallow fondant over buttercream frosting. Water in tub-marbled white/blue.
I used the Wilton Bert & Ernie cake pan from the 1970s to create this Sesame Street character cake for our twin boys’ 3rd birthday party. I used a butter cake recipe, and Betty Crocker cream cheese frosting colored in the appropriate shades. The hair is homemade chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring added. … Read more
My son LOVES Ernie, and it is hard to find Ernie items especially ones that don’t include his side-kick, Bert. And I don’t like flat sheet cakes, go big or go home! So this Ernie Cupcake Cake Pan Cake is what I came up with for his 2nd Birthday. I used the Wilton Giant Cupcake … Read more
This is my homemade Ernie birthday cake. To make the bathtub, I used two cake mixes in an oval cake pan. Two 6″ round half sphere mold cake pans were used for the head; these two cakes were then joined together with buttercream frosting. The arms were the biggest challenge. I used two small 2″ … Read more
Benjamin’s first birthday was coming, and like most 1-year-olds, he was obsessed with Sesame Street and Ernie. We looked, but couldn’t find the “just right” cake for him. SO we mix-matched ideas we found, and just decorated it by hand on our own. The Ernie Birthday Cake was a regular chocolate cake, and we made … Read more