For my daughters second birthday she wanted a Sesame Street theme. The first picture is her main cake which used the Wilton Elmo cake pan. I used a star tip for the red and just frosted the other colors to give it some contrast. I found that Wilton “Icing Colors” gel color worked great to … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I traced Elmo from a picture on parchment paper. I cut it out and used a toothpick to trace it onto the frosted cake. I used an 12 x 18 Wilton 2 inch baking sheet (2 mixes per layer, total of a two layer … Read more
My twins, Anja and Andres, are in love with Elmo; therefore, for their second birthday party, we chose Elmo for the theme. There are no cool ready-cakes at local stores, so after some internet research, I decided to make the Elmo Birthday Cake myself. Since it was my first time making a figurine-tier cake, I … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my brother in law as a funny cake. I didn’t want to buy a cake pan so I traced the rectangle cake pan on to wax paper. I used an Elmo picture as reference and traced out the eyes and jagged edges to cut out. There very little waste … Read more
I started this Elmo Cake by making two 17″ X 11″ X 1&1/2″ sheet cakes and a 6″ round chocolate cake for the head.(I used a 6″Pyrex bowl that worked very well.) I made them the day before to make handling easier. I frosted between the layers with one box of instant vanilla pudding made … Read more
I used red velvet cake mix straight from the box, baked into 3 8″ round pans for this Elmo Cake Idea . In between the layers I used cream cheeses frosting, but used just basic white for the outside. It took a whole jar of Wilton no-taste Red to get the color for the outside, … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake for my son’s 1st birthday party with our family. He loves Sesame Street! The top tier is 2 6-inch yellow cakes, and the bottom is 2 10-inch chocolate cakes (with 4 plastic support dowels inserted to hold the weight of the top tier). I tinted white icing with no … Read more
My daughter talks about Elmo non-stop, so naturally her cake was Elmo. I used the Wilton Elmo birthday cake pan. I found out that if you make the red frosting 3 days in advance (with the no-taste tulip red), it will get redder over time instead of jus t d ark pink. I liked giving … Read more
This Elmo cake was made simply by using one cake mix and two 8 inch round cake pans. I bought two containers of Pillsburys Creamy vanilla frosting for the decorating. I tinted one and a quarter containers of icing red and spread some between the two stacked layers. I tinted a small amount of the … Read more