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
This cake was traced from a stuffed animal Grover for the outline. The icing is Wilton’s whipping cream. The face and tummy were both cut and rounded to give the three-dimensional shape.
It took two boxed cake mixes and made a 9×13 and a 9′ round for this Cookie Monster cake. I simply cut away what did not look like cookie’s body shape and I took the excess and made his arms with it. I then took two cupcakes for his eyes and frosted the cake with … Read more
I prepared this Elmo birthday cake as a normal 2-layer cake; I used two round 9-inch cake pans. I then used food coloring in frosting, Oreo Cookies for eyes, and a lump of frosting with orange food coloring for a very sweet nose.
The Elmo cake was made for my sons 2nd birthday. My Aunt and Mom are very talented but have not had any formal training. All they did to make the cake was found a picture to go from and then worked there magic. I thought I would submit the photo just to help other people … Read more
I used a large round cake pan and large cupcake pan for this Elmo cake. I cut one of the large cupcakes in half and placed them on each side of the round cake to make an oval. I filled in the gaps with frosting. The kids liked it. I placed two large cupcakes at … Read more
I made this homemade Cookie Monster and Elmo cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. I used a 9×13 pan and 3″ ball pan for each head (chocolate chip cake). I made an extra Elmo head (because Elmo is my nephew’s favorite) for the smash cake which actually turned out better than the one on the … Read more
This Sesame Street cake was the second tier cake that I had ever made. I was amazed that it came out straight. The top tier is two layers of strawberry cake with red butter cream frosting. My son devoured it. The middle tier was a two layer Swiss chocolate cake with blue butter cream frosting. … Read more
The Sesame Street Neighborhood 3rd Birthday Cake was by FAR the most amount of work for his party, as usual. I am a hobbyist in the cake department, completing usually two a year, one for each child. In preparing a design for the cake, I asked Nate what he would like on it. I was … Read more
This Sesame Street cake was made on a 1/2 sheet cake base with one half a Wilton sport ball pan set for each of the Sesame St. heads. Once the cake was iced, the heads were placed in the corners & iced. Big Birds beak was done from a sugar cone. Using the grass tip … Read more
I made Elmo’s head out of cupcakes. I figured since his head is mostly round it wouldn’t be to hard to do. I used just one regular devils food cake mix and did Elmo cupcake holders. I colored white vanillas frosting out of the tub, I believe it was Duncan Hines. I colored it red, … Read more