I made this Elmo Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. She is obsessed with Elmo at the moment. The cake is just a double layer vanilla with red food dye joined with vanilla icing. It is all covered with red icing before any features were added on. I made the eyes from marshmallow snowballs … Read more
This Elmo Cake was my second attempt working with rolled fondant and a tiered cake (I made a practice cake the week before), so I kept the baking simple. I used boxed cake and icing from a tub. I would definitely go back and make buttercream icing because the store bought stuff wasn’t stiff enough. … Read more
Chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse layer and mousse also covered the cake. Use an Elmo image as a stencil, enlarge to the size you need, trace with baking paper, place on top of the fondant using a toothpick go over the lines making sure it leaves an indention on the fondant. I used fondant … Read more
I made this Elmo Birthday Cake Idea for my 2 year old for his 2nd birthday. He loves Elmo, every time he sees Elmo he will say melmo. This cake took about 2 hours to just cut it out, we didn’t use a cake pan. I just baked 4 1/4 sheet cakes and then we … Read more
We had and Elmo and Big Bird party. I bought the Elmo birthday cake pan. I used chocolate cake with chocolate chips in Elmo for my son and made a butter cream icing with soymilk. I waited till the cake was cool to spread the butter cream frosting on the cake. I added food coloring … Read more
This Elmo cake was my very first decorated cake. I used the Wilton cake pan, and baked one box of yellow cake according to the directions. I made buttercream icing, and tinted it in various colors. I used Wilton tip #3 and #16 to decorate the entire surface. It was extremely time consuming, especially since … Read more
For my son Justins 2nd birthday party, I made this Elmo birthday cake. I just used the Wilton’s cake pan, his favorite lemon cake mix and made lemon butter cream icing and dyed the icing colors that I needed.s 2nd birthday party, I made this Elmo birthday cake. I just used the Wiltons cake pan, … Read more
This Elmo Birthday Cake was my first ever birthday cake for my nephew. I used the Elmo cake pan and the Wilton’s 1/2 sheet cake. I wanted the cake to say “Happy Birthday Kolby” so I placed the Elmo cake over to the side. This was my first experience with square cakes (1/2 sheet), so … Read more
This 3D Elmo Birthday Cake was made of lemon cake for the body and legs, rice krispies for the head, eyes, nose and arms (to keep the cake from being too top-heavy). Elmo’s miniature cake was made of chocolate layer ganache cake. The finished Elmo cake was approx. 18 inch in height. Shape the cake … Read more
This Elmo Birthday Cake Idea is made with the Wilton Elmo pan. Use one recipe of Wilton’s buttercream icing and color half red, 1/4 black, and leave the rest white. When you are finished with the red, you will add yellow to it to make it orange. Pipe the outline of the mouth and, using … Read more
I traced the picture of Elmo from a coloring book onto the frosting. I filled him in from there. My son absolutely loved his Elmo birthday cake! This was my first attempt at making my own birthday cake.
I dared to make an Elmo Birthday Cake for my grand-daughter’s 2nd birthday. I was trying to match the green color from the Sesame Street sign, but it turned out a big mess, because I have no idea how to mix colors, so the first batch of frosting ended up in the garbage. I then … Read more