I scanned a picture from a book my kids have for this Oscar the Grouch Birthday Cake. Enlarged the picture, printed it out, taped the pages together to make a template and then cut it out. I used a 9in roe for his head and 3, 9×13 cake pans for the trash can and the … Read more
For my son, Stone’s, 3rd birthday party he decided on a Sesame Street theme! For his “friends’ party” I made Sesame Street Elmo Cookie Monster Big Bird Cupcakes. **helpful hint: much easier to hand out to kids then cutting a cake** I used store boxed cake mix and made cupcakes as directed and let them … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake for my son’s 1st birthday party with our family. He loves Sesame Street! The top tier is 2 6-inch yellow cakes, and the bottom is 2 10-inch chocolate cakes (with 4 plastic support dowels inserted to hold the weight of the top tier). I tinted white icing with no … Read more
To make this cake I baked the following: – two 8 inch round cakes – two 10 inch round cakes – two 1 quart Pyrex bowl cakes – two bread loaf pan cakes. To assemble Cookie Monster using the above mentioned baked cakes: – 8 inch round on the bottom, two 10 inch rounds stacked … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake for my nephew Ethans 2nd birthday. Elmo was one of his first words so it was an easy choice. I added crayon candles that I found in the grocery store (Elmo loves his crayons!) that happened to match the Elmo paper plates that were available at that time. I … Read more
My daughter was very into Elmo, so for her second birthday, I did an Elmo theme. I bought a cake pan to make balls and put the ball together for Elmos head. I cut off part of the back so it would lay flat securely. I made an 8×11 cake and trimmed it to make … Read more
This Elmo themed cake was made for my son’s 2nd birthday. The top is a double layer cake, with butter cream and marshmallow fondant. We used the Sesame Street cut-out on the site as a stencil for the “Greyson” Sesame Street sign. We emphasized the “2” for his birthday. The sides of the cake have … Read more
This Sesame Street cake was for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. She loved it! I took ideas from a few other cakes on this website and kind of combined them all! I used a glass Pyrex bowl to bake the cakes for Elmo and Cookie Monster! For the frosting I used a buttercream for the bottom … Read more
The cake part of this Homemade Budget Sesame Street Birthday Cake was super easy and cheap. I bought 2 boxes of cake mix (I did strawberry and the confetti-vanilla), and baked each in a 9-inch round pan. For the purple icing, I bought plain grocery store vanilla, colored it with Whitman’s food coloring, and lathered … Read more
My friend’s little girl loves Elmo so I found a picture out of a coloring book and traced it on the cake with piping gel. I used Wilton’s buttercream icing recipe and colors. Black gel to fill in the mouth. This was my very first cake so I had a hard time with smoothing the … Read more
For our Son’s second birthday we had a Sesame Street theme. He was so in love with Elmo so we bought a Wilton Elmo shaped cake pan. The closer it was getting to his special day, he was getting more and more in love with the other characters so that’s when we knew that we … Read more
