We were asked to make one of those cool animated Elmo cakes for our friends daughter’s second birthday. The theme is Elmo so we were going to try to make a cake to match his TV show, Elmo’s World. We decided to steer away from eating Elmo since it may have traumatized the two year … Read more
I bought a large sponge slab cake from our local supermarket, found a Sesame Street picture on the net of my daughters favorite Sesame Street character which I found on the Sesame Street website., blew it up on the computer, used it as a template and then cut it out. I iced and decorated it … Read more
We had and Elmo and Big Bird party. I bought the Elmo birthday cake pan. I used chocolate cake with chocolate chips in Elmo for my son and made a butter cream icing with soymilk. I waited till the cake was cool to spread the butter cream frosting on the cake. I added food coloring … Read more
This Elmo cake was my very first decorated cake. I used the Wilton cake pan, and baked one box of yellow cake according to the directions. I made buttercream icing, and tinted it in various colors. I used Wilton tip #3 and #16 to decorate the entire surface. It was extremely time consuming, especially since … Read more
For my son Justins 2nd birthday party, I made this Elmo birthday cake. I just used the Wilton’s cake pan, his favorite lemon cake mix and made lemon butter cream icing and dyed the icing colors that I needed.s 2nd birthday party, I made this Elmo birthday cake. I just used the Wiltons cake pan, … Read more
I saw a cake like this Sesame Street cake online and thought it would be really cute for my son’s upcoming birthday. I thought I would have a trial run first and this is how it came out. I made a marble double layer 8″ cake and a marble double layer 6″ cake. I used … Read more
My two-year-old loves Sesame Street so much, so I designed this Sesame Street Cake for her birthday party. The actual cake is a 3-tiered, 12 inch, chocolate cake, with buttercream frosting. I bought Wilton pure white fondant and dyed it purple to cover the cake. Then I made the green “Happy Birthday” sign out of … Read more
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