I got the idea for the Elmo and Big Bird Cake from this website. My cake required 4 cake mixes and several icings- I am not a baker, nor am I very crafty but this was my 1st baby’s 1st birthday and the cake had to be special! I used two small Pyrex bowls for … Read more
For this Sesame Street cake, I smoothed the eyes, mouth, and beak with a knife dipped in water. Very simple, although very time consuming!
I made this Elmo Spongebob Cake for my twin nephews. One of course likes Elmo and the other Spongebob. It’s a half sheet cake. I made the Elmo base relief by taking the portion of cake I cut to level it and mixed it with frosting. I moulded it into Elmo’s face and put it … Read more
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
This Elmo cake is a double layer, round, chocolate cake. I made coconut filling in between the layers. To frost I used buttercream frosting and mixed in beet juice red color to start then added the no taste red paste. I made the frosting the day before and let the color set. After frosting the … Read more
My 2 year old LOVES Elmo (I swear it was one of his first words), so a homemade Elmo birthday cake was a no-brainer. However, I couldn’t justify spending the money on an Elmo cake pan that I would use once. This homemade Elmo birthday cake I made out of two 8-inch rounds, which I … Read more
This Cookie Monster Birthday Cake was the biggest (and heaviest) cake I’ve ever made. I made this Cookie Monster 1/2 sheet cake for my friend’s son who turned 1 earlier in September of this year. It was a bit of a challenge as I have never done a cake of this size, but it was … Read more
We wanted a 3-D Cookie Monster cake for our son’s first birthday. Local bakeries were unable to make a 3-D one so we used the Wilton 3-D cake pan to make this cake. I baked it according to the directions in the booklet. I used one box of pound cake mix and one box of … Read more
I wanted to create an Elmo Birthday Cake for my son for his second birthday. I had seen the Elmo cake pans, but wanted to do something different, so I made a confetti sheet cake and drew a picture of Elmo on the top of it. I think it turned out pretty good for my … Read more
My younger son was a HUGE Elmo fan when he was little. He didn’t grow out of it untill he was nearly 5. For his 3rd Birthday, I threw him an Elmo themed party and I made this Elmo cake myself. I bought the Elmo-head cake pan off EBay and used 1 pkg of white … 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
It was my son’s 1st birthday and Sesame Street cupcakes was the way to go. I bought sandwich bags(for piping), large and mini cupcake liners, two boxes of cake mix, three cans of vanilla frosting, 1 jar of Nutella or could use a can chocolate frosting , and one bag of candy corn and one … Read more