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
My daughter loves Elmo. So for her 2nd birthday I decided to make her Elmo Birthday Cake myself. I looked online for ideas and came to this sight. I got a lot of inspiration from here but I looked elsewhere to find a picture of Elmo that I really liked. I ended up finding one … Read more
This Homemade Cookie Monster Cake Design, the cupcakes and the chocolate chip cookies were done for a cake auction at our church. We started out with a cake that was about twice the size, and due to structural problems, we downsized, but were more than pleased with the results. Another glitch that we ran into … Read more
I like doing cupcakes much more than cakes because I enjoy making an awesome display for the cakes and this Abby Cadabby Birthday Cake I made recently for a friend’ daughter was the best. I got so many compliments and people wanting to order from me. As you can see she was having Abby Cadabby … Read more
My daughter LOVES Sesame Street. We even went to Sesame Place in PA this summer. For her 2nd birthday, I knew what the theme would be! I am not super crafty, so out of all of the characters, I thought Cookie would be the easiest because he is one color. I purchased blue food coloring … Read more
I used the doll mold for the head and cut part of the top off to make the Oscar the Grouch head more round. I used an 8″ round for the lid on top of his head. If I needed more cake I would have used 10″ rounds on the bottom for the garbage can. … Read more