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
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
This Oscar the Grouch cake was made with the Wilton Oscar cake pan. To make him “furry” I just used a thin round frosting tip and layered the frosting in long strokes. It was pretty easy because there aren’t too many different colors.
These Cookie Monster Cupcakes are chocolate, and each cupcake has a half Oreo cookie (cream side up) hiding at the bottom of the cupcake liner as an added surprise! Once they cooled, I then filled the cupcakes with a whipped cream and cookie crumb mixture using a piping bag. I frosted the cupcakes with blue … Read more
I used red velvet cake mix straight from the box, baked into 3 8″ round pans for this Elmo Cake Idea . In between the layers I used cream cheeses frosting, but used just basic white for the outside. It took a whole jar of Wilton no-taste Red to get the color for the outside, … Read more
I used a round 9 inch chocolate cake filled with a cookies and cream filling. I used black gel coloring to color the frosting for the mouth and piped it on before piping the fur. After the mouth looked how I wanted, I used a leaf tip and blue frosting and piped away! It took … Read more
This Elmo Birthday Cake was a first birthday cake for a little boy named Evan. His mom said he is Elmo crazy. So I know I had to make it a great and fun cake for him! I used chocolate fudge cake batter for the sheet cake. And the same for the small round. I … Read more
My daughters name is Zoe, so I just couldn’t resist using Zoe from Sesame Street for her 2nd birthday party theme. I found very cute invitations, napkins, and tablecloths with a Sesame Street picture of Zoe dressed up like a ballerina; so that is what I made on the cake. I started by making a … Read more
For this Elmo birthday cake, I scanned a picture of Elmo onto card stock from my daughter Christmas balloon. I cut out Elmo, cutting out his eyes, nose and mouth area as well. I then placed my stencil on top of the cake and used a toothpick to trace around the stencil. I then used … Read more
I made an Elmo cake for my sons 2nd birthday! I used the Wilton cake pan and got an icing dye kit from the baking store. I baked the cake the night before I iced it and put it in the freezer, it was much easier to ice that way. I didn’t use all of … Read more
I made elmo birthday cakes for a little boys 1st birthday. It was just a yellow cake with no filling. It was decorated with butter cream icing made from scratch.s 1st birthday. It was just a yellow cake with no filling. It was decorated with butter cream icing made from scratch.
I made Big Bird and Cookie Monster cupcakes for my nephew Brandon’s 1st birthday party on Sept. 13. My sister-in-law couldn’t find Sesame Street cakes at the bakery that used icing to create the characters. They just used figurines or Sesame Street plastic rings. After looking at some Sesame Street cakes online I came up … Read more