My twins love Elmo and Sesame Street so I decided to do something along that line for their birthday. After researching this site and the internet, this is what I made. I was very pleased with the results. I used a yellow boxed cake mix and prepared two 9 inch round cakes. I baked them … Read more
I made this Homemade Elmo’s World Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd Birthday. This is my first fondant cake ever, but I’m SO happy with how it turned out. My inspiration for the cake came from Elmo’s World, the show on Sesame Street and the colors from the plates I got for the party. I … Read more
My daughter has adored Elmo since she was about 4 months old so I knew that would be the ‘theme’ for her 1st birthday. Being a busy working mom, I had originally planned to buy a cake until my sister-in-law pointed out that baking was half the fun. So I started planning the Elmo cake … Read more
I made this Cookie Monster cake for a second birthday party, it turned out really cute! I used the Wilton ball pan for his head, a smaller round cake for his neck and loaf pans for his arms (which I carved with a serrated knife to shape). I used a LOT of royal blue and … 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
My sister and I made this Big Bird Sesame Street Cake for my mother-in-law, Beverly, who is a lover of Sesame Street…and Big Bird! We made this cake for her birthday and she loved it; her mother was very ill and passed away the next day. I remember getting to show her mother the cake … Read more
This Cookie Monster Birthday Cake is such a simple cake. I recommend it for anyone who is trying cake decorating for the first time! I used the Wilton Elmo Cake Pan. When the cake was cooled, I just cut off the nose (Cookie Monster doesn’t have a nose). I did the white eyes first, then … Read more
My son’s favourite toy is Grover (from Sesame Street), so for his second birthday, I made him a Grover Cake. I simply baked a rectangular slab and iced it with vanilla icing, then based my Grover drawing on a picture I found on the Internet. I used blue, black and red tubes of cake decorating … Read more
I knew that for my daughter’s first birthday I had to have an Elmo birthday cake. she absolutely LOVES him. I was so disapointed with the cakes available at the store that I decided to do it myself. We have loads of Elmo books so I looked to find him in a super sweet pose … Read more
This Elmo cake was made for my daughter’s (who is a huge Elmo fan) second birthday. I used the Wilton cuddly 3-D bear mold, but for some reason the cake didn’t fill the entire mold, so I ended up with half a bear. Short on time, I had to make it work, so I cut … 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
For my son’s second birthday, he was in love with Sesame Street and especially Ernie. So, since there was no Ernie cake pan available, I used the Elmo Cake pan from Wilton. In addition to the Ernie cake we made cupcakes of other characters (Bert, Elmo, Zoe, Cookie Monster and Oscar). To make Ernie we … Read more