Our son’s Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake turned out AWESOME! I baked it, and my patient, and talented sister – Cristy iced it! We hated to cut it! It only took 5 hours of baking and 5 hours icing! What fun! The head was vanilla cake, the teal ones was lemon, the red was red velvet, … Read more
This Homemade Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake is the Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake my mum and I made for my son’s Tyler 1st Birthday. Together we made four 8inch round cakes, two chocolate flavoured and two butter creamed flavoured. We used a sports ball pan for the head and 10 cupcakes again different flavoured for the … Read more
I got a request for a Baby Einstein caterpillar cake. I used the Wilton Sports pan for the cakes and I used Wilton’s candy clay for the children’s name and Happy Birthday. I used Duncan Hines cake mix and buttercream frosting. I outlined the names and the happy birthday with icing. Thank you for allowing … Read more
This is a perfect first birthday cake, a baby Einstein cake. I used the small circle pan that you would use for the top layer of a wedding cake, two cups of batter per pan baked for 28 minutes. I also made six cupcakes. It was about three cake mixes to make. Let them cool … Read more
I used a Wilton 12″x18″x2″ sheet cake pan and used 3 boxes of Butter Recipe Fudge cake to bake baby Einstein caterpillar cakes. On the caterpillar I used the Wilton Sports Ball Pan and for each segment of the caterpillar I used a different flavor. Fondant was used on the eyes, antenna, mouth and cheeks. … Read more
I used a Wilton 6 inch round pan for this caterpillar cake. After baking I cut the top off to make it level and let it cool. Once the cake was cool, I coated it with chocolate buttercream and placed in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. I smoothed chocolate marshmallow fondant over the cake and … Read more
This Homemade Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake was my first attempt at making a “home-made” cake. I had inherited a couple of metal tips from my mother-in-law and when the time came that I could not find a cake that I liked for my daughter, Emelia’s, 1st birthday, I thought I would attempt to make one … Read more
For my sons 1st birthday, we decided to go with the Baby Einstein Theme. Instead of making a rectangle cake and buying an edible Baby Einstein cake image/topper, I decided to do something a little more creative and make the actual Baby Einstein caterpillar cake. I simply used a boxed cake mix and baked five … Read more
I was looking for a fast and easy way to recreate the Baby Einstein cake for my nieces second birthday party. I like to fold whipped topping into my frosting (the richness of the pure frosting is neutralized but the mixture is still somewhat stiff for piping). To make the caterpillar I used vanilla frosting. … Read more
I used Wilton sports ball pans for the body segments and cupcakes for the feet and tail for the baby Einstein caterpillar cakes. I made the 1234 cake batter and Wilton meringue frosting. These recipes were given to me from my Grandmother but I believe they can be found on the Wilton site. I used … Read more
I used the small Wilton ball pan. One cake mix was enough for this Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake. I frosted each half together to make a 3D shape. The face I used black decorator gel and frosting for the cheeks. The antenna were pipe cleaners, I only had white so I just rubbed them in … Read more
I love to be crafty and creative but lets face it, it’s also great to copy someone else’s idea. Like many others on this site, I went out and bought Wilton’s ball cake pan. I used half a ball for each section of the body. I used 3 boxes of cake mix, the darker colored … Read more