I found a picture of Elmo online, printed it on cardstock, laminated it then cut it out for a stencil. I laid it on the iced half sheet cake and traced it with a toothpick. After filling it in with the appropriate colors I added giant sized sprinkle stars.
This was my first character cake, didn’t expect it to even turn out but I was pleasantly surprised. I just cooked two dome cakes with a Pyrex glass bowl. I used 2 boxes of cake mix and put 3cups in each bowl and then made cupcakes with the leftovers. Then I put them together and gave … Read more
I made this Elmo Birthday Cake for my brothers'(they are twins) birthday as a joke (they were turning 14 years old). I baked the cake using Betty Crocker cake mix. Then, when the cake was cool, I used black butter cream frosting and a small circle tip with a decorating bag, and I outlined everything … Read more
For my son’s 2nd birthday we had an Elmo-themed party. The Elmo Birthday Cupcakes were made from a store-bought mix and I used red tinted buttercream icing and a star tip to make the “fur”. To make the eyes, we cut a large marshmallow in half and placed it sticky side up on the face. … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my son’s first birthday. I got idea from some other cakes on this site.. I made a basic white cake and 3 cup cakes for eyes and nose. I used moistening orange juice and sugar as moistening syrup for the cake. Also gave a glaze with orange juice and … Read more
I made the Elmo 2nd Birthday Cake using Wilton’s cuddly bear stand up cake pan and cut off the ears. A note about that, the first cake I made I had 2 problems, one, the 6 cups of batter to fill the cavity was not enough to bubble up and over (which I think was … Read more
I made this Elmo Smash Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. She loves Elmo and was thrilled to see him on her cake! I used a 6 inch cake pan normally used for the top tier of a wedding cake. I used regular devil’s food cake mix and regular white icing. I dyed the … Read more
I was making an Elmo Birthday Cake for a friend’s son’s 1st birthday party. I first baked 2 cakes in 12×2 inch pans. The one is the bottom layer. The other I used for Elmo. I got a picture off the internet and blew it up to the size I wanted. Then I laid it … Read more
Coolest Elmo Birthday Cake Photos and How-To Tips 10
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