Sweet Homemade Carved Elmo Head Cake

Homemade Elmo Cake

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

Cute Homemade 2D Buttercream Elmo Cake

Homemade  Elmo Cake

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

Cool Homemade Elmo Cake Idea

Homemade Elmo Cake Idea

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

Cool Homemade 3 Tiered Elmo Birthday Cake

Homemade Elmo Birthday Cake

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

Coolest Elmo Birthday Cake Photos and How-To Tips 11

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

Coolest Homemade Elmo Birthday Cakes 4

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

Cool Homemade Square Elmo Cake

Mason's Elmo Cake

I made this Elmo cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. It was my first attempt at a character cake, and it was a lot of fun. The cake is a 2-layer, 12 inch square, and required about 10 cups of batter per layer, and baked 55 minutes each. I used Betty Crocker pudding in the … Read more

Coolest Elmo Turns 2 Birthday Cake

Homemade Elmo Turns 2 Birthday Cake

My daughter is gluten intolerant, and loves Elmo! I hired the Wilton’s tin and made a packet gluten free chocolate packet cake. I did it the easy way and used the pre made Betty Crocker icing and coloured it as needed, and used ‘plastic’ icing for the white bits which I did first because if … Read more

Cutest Homemade Elmo Fondant Birthday Cake

Homemade Elmo Birthday Cake

This Elmo Birthday Cake was made by my sister and I for a friend’s daughter’s first birthday. She had requested that baby Elmo and the number one be on top and that the cake was made out of a chocolate and white chocolate marble mud cake but otherwise we were free to design the rest … Read more

Elmo Cake

Elmo Cake

This was the cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday party. She was very into Elmo and I was nervous about making the Elmo cake because I am not great at using character pans and getting the red color of his fur right. To get the red color so red, mix up the icing with gel … Read more

Coolest Homemade Elmo Birthday Cake

Homemade Elmo Birthday Cake

I made this cake for my niece’s 2nd birthday part. The Elmo head is chocolate make with the Wilton Elmo cake pan. The cake is double layer 12 and 14 in red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. I covered the homemade Elmo birthday cake with home made marshmallow fondant and tinted it yellow and … Read more

Coolest Elmo Cupcakes and Cake

Homemade  Elmo Cupcakes and Cake

I started this Elmo Cupcakes and Cake with an 8″ single layer round cake, then cutout enough room for 2 eyes to slide into the top part of the cake. I cut off the top of a cupcake, frosted it and put it below/between the eyes to make the nose. I then frosted the entire … Read more