I wanted to make a small cake for a second birthday party for a little girl who LOVES Elmo! The Elmo Birthday Cake Idea is a basic chocolate cake split in two with raspberry curd in between the two layers. I iced it with yellow-coloured buttercream icing (made with icing sugar, milk and margarine). The … Read more
A friend of mine has a little boy turning three and he loves Elmo. She asked me to make an Elmo Birthday Cake for him to help celebrate. I love making cakes, but this theme was a first so it had to be something simple. I used a white cake recipe and buttercream icing to … Read more
This Elmo birthday cake was made for my friends friend. She helped me with this cake as well as the batman cake I did because she wanted to learn how to decorate cakes. She worked on the Elmo as I did pretty much the rest including the flower Elmo was holding. She did a pretty … Read more
My 3-year-old son insisted that his sister needed an Elmo cake for her 1st birthday. It’s from a 9-inch and 6-inch round cake, covered with fondant icing. Make the flowers using an extra small flower cutter (glue it on the Elmo cake). The Elmo is from the Wilton stand up bear cake pan. Cut the … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my nephews first birthday. He loved construction tools and Elmo so I combined them. Cover a sheet cake (any flavor) with white icing. Use red decorating icing in a tube with a star tip and pipe on stars in the shape of Elmo’s face and hands. I used black … Read more
My friend’s little girl loves Elmo so I found a picture out of a coloring book and traced it on the cake with piping gel. I used Wilton’s buttercream icing recipe and colors. Black gel to fill in the mouth. This was my very first cake so I had a hard time with smoothing the … Read more
I made a 14 inch 2 layer round cake and covered it with fondant. I baked the Elmo in an Elmo shaped pan from bulk barn and covered it in icing made from a cup of butter and a bag of icing sugar. I used a 1oz bottle of Wilton red food colouring gel and … Read more
I made this Elmo Birthday Cake Idea for my son’s second birthday as he loves Elmo. I got help from some idea of this site but as I didn’t have an Elmo pan, I decorate a round cake. Frosted with purchased icing, colored with Wilton no taste red color, then I sprinkled some small red … Read more
I have twin boy/girl grandchildren and each year I have made cakes that have coordinating characters. This year was Abby Cadabby and an Elmo Birthday Cake from Sesame Street. An Elmo pan is a Wilton Pan was easy to find. The face is made with a star tip, smooth eyes and the fur with the … Read more
I made this Elmo 1st Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. Bottom cake is ten” Madeira, middle is 8″ lemon, top is 6″ chocolate. I used plain sugarpaste and coloured with americolour electric colours, stacking them together using dowells as support. The stars are made from sugarpaste with gum traganth added. I used edible … Read more
This Fondant Elmo Birthday Cake is a birthday cake we made for a 1 year old boy’s birthday. It is a vanilla cake with buttercream icing and totally covered in homemade marshmallow fondant. The decorations are also made of fondant. We used Wilton cutters to cut out the decorations. We did this the day before … Read more
For my son’s second birthday, I decided to make him an Elmo Birthday Cake Idea. I searched this site for a way to make the cake without buying a special pan. I wanted to make the cake 13×9 for storage purposes. I found that the Elmo cake 71 and 39 gave me the best advice. … Read more