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
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.