This Elmo Cake was my second attempt working with rolled fondant and a tiered cake (I made a practice cake the week before), so I kept the baking simple. I used boxed cake and icing from a tub. I would definitely go back and make buttercream icing because the store bought stuff wasn’t stiff enough. … Read more
The cake batter is Dunkin Hines French Vanilla and I added mini chocolate chips to the batter (notice the smile). I used two round 9 inch cake pans. I used one round cake for the face and then cut two side slivers off the other circle for the “football” shaped head. I made two cupcakes … Read more
Chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse layer and mousse also covered the cake. Use an Elmo image as a stencil, enlarge to the size you need, trace with baking paper, place on top of the fondant using a toothpick go over the lines making sure it leaves an indention on the fondant. I used fondant … Read more
I am a stay at home mom of 2 children under the age of 2 and I love art and baking. I love the food network, especially the shows about cake design, so I started trying new things. I am fully self taught and cake decorating is not only a fun hobby but it is … Read more
I made this Elmo Birthday Cake for my beautiful little niece. It was her 2nd birthday. I made it with Betty Crocker cake mix. I just added food coloring to the batter so it had a marble effect inside. Very cool, just swirl some food coloring in some kind of a pattern. I use Wilton … 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
I made these Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Oscar the Grouch Cupcakes for my very sweet 2yr old little boy’s birthday! He loves Sesame Street and especially Elmo! All of the cupcakes are chocolate. The Elmo and Cookie Monster cupcakes are filled with homemade coconut cream (the filling was just homemade vanilla pudding with coconut extract). … Read more
These Sesame street cupcakes were really fun to do for a friends son’s birthday party. For the furry characters always work from the outside edge of the cupcake inward doing the center last. Elmo: To ice the cupcake use red frosting and a small star tip to give Elmo a “fuzzy” appearance. Gently saw an … Read more
My niece loves Cookie Monster, so for her 1st birthday I made her a Cookie Monster Cake. I just made two butter cakes and a third round one made from a metal bowl and stacked them on top of each other shaving around the edges to make a dome shape. The icing is fluffy frosting … Read more
I traced the image onto a piece of waxed paper & used it as a stencil to trace the image onto the iced Elmo cake.
My nephew wanted any kind of Elmo birthday cakes for his birthday so I found this on your site. I used three round cakes. Before cutting the cake form I drew Elmo on paper and cut out the body. Then I took tracing paper to cut the cake (to avoid any mistakes especially with his … Read more
My youngest daughter is in love with Big Bird and Elmo. For her first birthday, I used some of the info on this site to construct this Big Bird and Elmo cake. I used a box cake for the bottom rectangle, then rented the Wilton Sport’s Ball pan to bake a round cake, using the … Read more