My son loved Elmo and Cookie when he was 2. I made him this Elmo and Cookie Monster 2nd birthday cake. I used a sheet pan to make the base of the cake, which I frosted white. I used Wilton’s Sports Ball Pan and made 2 half balls. To make the eyes and nose, I had … Read more
With the help of my daughter-in-law and grand-daughter I did the Elmo Birthday Cake cake using the Wilton Elmo face. Steph drew the body and Sam designed the balloon cakes to go with Elmo. It took 6 cake mixes to make the whole project. Two large butter cream batches. Lots of red and use the … Read more
My one-year old loves Plaza Sesamo. We don’t speak Spanish so I let him watch that hoping he’ll pick up some. His favorite is Archibaldo (Grover – don’t ask me why they changed his name.) He gets the biggest smile whenever he is on the screen and quite often laughs at him. So I looked … Read more
My son Chase, loved Cookie Monster so I made him this Homemade Cookie Monster Cake for his 2nd birthday party. Using (4) boxes of yellow box cake mix, I poured 2/3 into a large 16 inch round pan (face), and 1/3 into two halves of a sports ball pan (for the eyes). When done, I … Read more
I used a blend of ideas from this website to make this Cookie Monster Birthday Cake . I used the Wilton 3D teddy bear cake pan and the tip that is typically used for grass to ice him. I cut the hands and face to make it look like cookie monster eating a cookie. I … Read more
Believe it or not but I used the Wilton Barbie pan and a 9 inch round. After cooling I trimmed the 9in round so that it would be even with the base of the bell shaped cake. Then I cut layers into the bell shaped cake and iced in between (the cut was beautiful – … Read more
My nephew was turning 2 and he loves Elmo. His mother asked me to make Elmo Birthday Cupcakes to go along with the theme for his party. I made regular yellow cake for the cupcakes, I frosted them in butter cream then to get the natural red color of Elmo. I rolled them in red … Read more
I traced the picture of Elmo from a coloring book onto the frosting. I filled him in from there. My son absolutely loved his Elmo birthday cake! This was my first attempt at making my own birthday cake.
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