This Elmo birthday cake was prepared using the Betty Crocker bake and fill cake pan. I prepared a white cake mix according to directions on box and pan, filled with strawberry ice cream and froze over night. With the left over batter I also made 6 mini cupcakes, 2 of which were used for the … Read more
I bought an Elmo cake pan by Wilton, I bought white icing, and mixed a dark red food coloring in to get the perfect color for Elmo’s face. I then used white icing to make the eyes, and white icing mixed with black food coloring to make the eye balls, and mouth. I also mixed … Read more
This is an Elmo cake I made for my nephews first birthday. He loves Elmo and this was his personal cake for him to smash and enjoy all for himself! I used a 6″x3″ cake pan, the Wilton recipe for basic butter cake and Wilton’s buttercream recipe (with half butter and half shortening). I mixed … Read more
My daughter has adored Elmo since she was about 4 months old so I knew that would be the ‘theme’ for her 1st birthday. Being a busy working mom, I had originally planned to buy a cake until my sister-in-law pointed out that baking was half the fun. So I started planning the Elmo cake … Read more
This Elmo Birthday Cake is my first Wilton cake mold I’ve made! It was for my nephew Elijah’s 1st Birthday. I was pretty excited doing it. It took about 45 minutes to decorate. Since then I’ve done other Wilton moldings like , Tinkerbell, Princess crown, Cupcake, and a Cars.
I made this Elmo cake for my daughter’s second birthday party. We were living in Venezuela at the time and I could not get my hands on an Elmo cake pan. I found a picture online of Elmo and my husband used an overhead projecter to enlarge it. We then traced it onto wax paper … Read more
My son’s school was having a year end party and many of the kids really like Elmo. I searched and found an appropriate picture for the cake top and made the Elmo cake. The cake is an 11X15 double layer marble cake. I always use the Dr. Oetker cake mixes for my cake because they … Read more
This Elmo Cake was prepared using the standard Wilton Elmo cake pan. I used the Wilton “no taste” red to make the color so deep. I recommend buying 2 or 3 large jars of that coloring to make it bold enough. Especially if you’re going from white icing to red, it takes a lot. I … Read more
My daughter’s 1st birthday cake had to be an Elmo Birthday Cake, since she cheered every time he appeared on TV. I have never made a character cake before, and I just followed a picture I had of him. I used Wilson frosting red, black, white, and orange. Next, I used the star tip for his … Read more
I made this Homemade Elmo Cake using a 10″ round pan and cupcakes. I cut the outer ring of the cake off and saved the pieces to form the Elmo head, then using the pieces I formed his shoulders and arm. A cupcake for his hand and a little nub for a thumb. For the … Read more
I prepared this Elmo birthday cake as a normal 2-layer cake; I used two round 9-inch cake pans. I then used food coloring in frosting, Oreo Cookies for eyes, and a lump of frosting with orange food coloring for a very sweet nose.
The Elmo cake was made for my sons 2nd birthday. My Aunt and Mom are very talented but have not had any formal training. All they did to make the cake was found a picture to go from and then worked there magic. I thought I would submit the photo just to help other people … Read more