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

I wanted to make my daughter an Elmo cake for her first birthday. I browsed online at photos of amazing cakes but never saw one that caught my eye. I saw similar cakes that just stood with an Elmo using Wilton standing bear cake pan. Then I came across a cake that had two characters.It … Read more

I made this Sesame Street cake for my son’s first birthday. It is three tiers of 2 layer cakes, 2 vanilla and 1 chocolate. I used the pre-colored fondant for the bottom and just cut it into equal sized strips. I used jumbo star sprinkles for the middle layer and elmo sugar decorations for the … Read more

I made this Sesame Street birthday cake for my son, Brian’s second birthday. I used two 10 inch round pans for the cake itself, iced with butter cream icing. The figures on the top I carved out of pre-colored fondant. My son has little figures that I used as ‘models’ along with pictures from the … Read more

This Elmo And Abby Birthday Cake was my FIRST time EVER making a cake. I wanted my little girl’s 2nd birthday to be special, and the theme was Elmo and Abby. This is the cake I imagined. I did lots of research on making cakes through various websites, this one included. I made store bought … Read more

My twins love Elmo and Sesame Street so I decided to do something along that line for their birthday. After researching this site and the internet, this is what I made. I was very pleased with the results. I used a yellow boxed cake mix and prepared two 9 inch round cakes. I baked them … Read more

I made this Homemade Elmo’s World Birthday Cake for my son’s 2nd Birthday. This is my first fondant cake ever, but I’m SO happy with how it turned out. My inspiration for the cake came from Elmo’s World, the show on Sesame Street and the colors from the plates I got for the party. I … Read more

I saw a homemade Sesame Street first birthday cake online similar to this one and it was perfect for my granddaughter’s first birthday. I baked three-pound cakes and baked them in 10, 8, and 6-inch pans. Each cake was two layers.I filled the layers with cooked pudding and iced them with homemade butter cream frosting. … Read more

This is the first cake I have ever made like this so I was a little nervous. I looked around online for some ideas and then built this homemade 1st birthday Sesame Street cake. The inside of the cake is tye-dye which is simply a white cake mix separated and colored and then layered in … Read more

I didn’t do my son’s first birthday justice, so I wanted to do something a bit more special this time around. I got lots of inspiration from this site and decided to attempt a tiered fondant cake. I checked out a few other sites for tips and techniques and decided to give it a shot, … Read more

This Homemade Elmo & Cookie Monster Cake was, hands down the most awesome cake I’ve ever done. I sculpted the heads out of rice crispy treats and the bodies were carved entirely from cake. I used a grass tip for Elmo’s fur and a basket tip for Cookie Monster’s fur. The eyes and noses were … Read more