I made this Elmo cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I have never decorated a cake before. He is obsessed with Elmo so I decided to tackle an Elmo cake. We were having so many people over that the standard Elmo cake pan wouldn’t make enough cake for everyone. So, I made a 16 x … Read more
I baked my Elmo cake in a 14″ x 14″ square pan using 2 cake mixes. I took out about a cup of the batter and baked in a small glass mixing bowl for Elmo’s face. After the cake cooled I trimmed the round one to be more of an oval shape and cut out … Read more
My daughter loves Elmo. So for her 2nd birthday I decided to make her Elmo Birthday Cake myself. I looked online for ideas and came to this sight. I got a lot of inspiration from here but I looked elsewhere to find a picture of Elmo that I really liked. I ended up finding one … Read more
This Elmo Cake is make out of a modified Red Velvet Cake Mix, a homemade Butter Cream frosting recipe AND 4 MILLION gallons of Red Food Coloring! His head was held on by Bamboo skewers (be carful with little kids and skewers). Decorating Tip #33 was used to make him furry! The eyes are marshmallows … Read more
This Elmo birthday cake was made in the Elmo cake pan. It was pretty easy to decorate. Its mostly red star tipped icing. The mouth was tricky to get to look nice. A toothpick and slightly moist offset spatula helped define and smooth. I cut a piece of cardboard in the shape of this Sesame … Read more
This Elmo cake is the first cake I have ever decorated, so it was quite an accomplishment for me. I made it for my sons 2nd birthday. I started with a round cake and cut off a triangular shape off the two sides to create Elmo’s shaped face. Then scooped out a bit of cake … Read more
I wanted an easy to make Elmo cake for my sons second birthday. I found out from a previous experience that red icing is extremely messy and staining for a two year old so I wanted to avoid an all red cake too. This cake was super simple! I used a yellow box cake mix … Read more
This is an Elmo cake that was made for a little boys 1st Birthday! I used the Wilton Elmo shaped pan. This was the first time that I had used a shaped pan and I love it! It made decorating so easy! I made sure to grease and flour just the bottom of the pan. … Read more
I used the Wilton’s Elmo cake pan for my Elmo Birthday Cake. I mixed a package of red jello in with the red icing so that it would taste better. A friend gave me the idea to use the jello. I baked a set of cupcakes. I put red stars all over the cupcake. I … Read more
I used an Elmo cake pan for this Homemade Elmo Birthday Cake. For his fur I used red food color and coconut. His nose is a large gum drop and his eyes are rolled out of taffy with a licorice berry as the black. The Ice Cream is rolled out and cut/shaped taffy. The hat … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my best friend’s son’s 1st birthday. We have a deal going on that I make the cakes for her kids and she makes the sausage rolls for my kids, its a great deal. Anyway she waned an Elmo cake as Jed was so into him and just had to … Read more
I made this 3D Elmo Cake for my Elmo loving niece for her birthday. From the neck down, cakes are stacked and carved into the shape of Elmo. The arms and legs are made of rice crispy treats. I used a grass icing tip to make it look like fur. There is a dowel rod … Read more