I got the idea for making the Sesame Street Birthday Cupcakes from another cupcake submission on this website. I used mainly the same things like marshmallows for Elmo and Cookie’s eyes, Oreos for the mouths, etc. However, for Bert & Ernie’s ears I used Spree candies. I also put some cupcakes with “1” on them … Read more
These homemade Elmo cupcakes were for my son’s daycare class for his 2nd birthday – he was obsessed with Elmo. I simply baked and iced the cupcakes with white icing. I then dipped them in red jimmies (I had to special order these from online, but they were pretty reasonable in price). For the eyes, … Read more
I followed the instructions of a Homemade Cookie Monster Birthday Cake posted here before, but I made some changes. I used from bottom to top: one round 10 inch, two round 9 inch, one 8″, one Pyrex 1qt cut for the neck shape, two 1.5 qt bowl Pyrex for the head, one roast beef pan … Read more
I made this Cookie Monster cake for my son’s 1st birthday party. He loves Cookie Monster! The base is a 2 layer 16 in round iced in buttercream with royal icing cookies that I made a week in advance. The Cookie Monster is comprised of (from the bottom) 9in round, 10in, 9in, 6 in round … Read more
My twins, Anja and Andres, are in love with Elmo; therefore, for their second birthday party, we chose Elmo for the theme. There are no cool ready-cakes at local stores, so after some internet research, I decided to make the Elmo Birthday Cake myself. Since it was my first time making a figurine-tier cake, I … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my brother in law as a funny cake. I didn’t want to buy a cake pan so I traced the rectangle cake pan on to wax paper. I used an Elmo picture as reference and traced out the eyes and jagged edges to cut out. There very little waste … Read more
I made this homemade 1st birthday Elmo cake for my nephew’s 1st Birthday. He seemed to like the “tickle me Elmo” I got him for Christmas so much so I thought the Elmo cake would be a great idea. This homemade 1st birthday Elmo cake only took me about an hour to make. I used … Read more
I made this Elmo 2nd Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I found a picture of Elmo I liked in a coloring book, so we scanned it. My husband, an engineer, uploaded it into AutoCad to resize it for me and also to add the “2”. After he did this, we printed it out … Read more
My daughter loves pink and purple and Abby Cadabby so I decided to use her as the theme for my daughter’s 4th birthday party this year. I used the format and design idea from another Abby Cadabby Birthday Cake I saw on this website: Abby Cadabby Cake 2 by Alexxis (Massillon, OH). The tips and … Read more
This Sesame Street Elmo Cake is a very simple cake I made just for practicing with a banana packet cake I just bought. It was made from a round cake pan and I trimmed the cake to make the shape of the eyes. I piped all his fur on with buttercream and used the leftover … Read more
For my son’s second birthday, I decided to make him an Elmo Birthday Cake Idea. I searched this site for a way to make the cake without buying a special pan. I wanted to make the cake 13×9 for storage purposes. I found that the Elmo cake 71 and 39 gave me the best advice. … Read more
My latest cake is of Cookie Monster, done for a 1 year old named Samuel. The main part of the cake is homemade chocolate cake with vanilla butter cream frosting and covered in vanilla fondant (I use Satin-Ice fondant). Cookie Monster is made of chocolate cake (the middle) and his head, arms and legs are … Read more