I made this Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake for my son’s first birthday. It was a lot of work but I was happy with the results. I used: *(2) 11×15 Wilton sheet pans for the base * Wilton sports ball pan to make the caterpillar halves * Wilton gel icing colors (red, yellow, green, blue, purple, … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for my son’s 1st birthday because he loves the books and can recognize the caterpillar. For the Base: I made a large sheet cake (13x9in) of Yellow Cake from scratch – the recipe can be found here www.mumsnet.com/Recipes/call=RecipePage&pid=2828 (yellow cake freezes really well, so can be made in … Read more
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake was made from a basic Victoria sponge recipe (300g Self Raising flour, 300g butter, 300g caster sugar & 6 large eggs). I creamed the sugar and the butter, and then added the eggs and the flour a little at a time. Once mixed, I divided the mixture between a … Read more
I got this idea from the coolest birthday cakes cake gallery. I saw the caterpillar cake and fell in love with it. I made this for my daughters first birthday. She got a cake all to herself and enjoyed every last bite. The most important bit of information I can pass on is: know for … Read more
To make this caterpillar cake I used two bundt cakes. I cut the cakes in half and then arranged them in a zig zag pattern. I had to cut the head and tail ends a bit to get the shape I wanted. For the frosting I used a sweetened stabilized whipped cream. (If you use … 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 came across so many wonderful caterpillar cake ideas on this site – I just had to make one for my daughter’s first birthday party. I am SO thrilled with the results. It came out so adorable – I didn’t want to cut it up. I used the Wilton sport ball pan with boxed mixes … Read more
I had so much fun making this Caterpillar Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. All it took was two boxes of cake mix, three containers of icing (buttercream), food coloring, 1 qt Pyrex (glass oven safe) bowl, cookie cutters, cookie dough, and multi colored pipe cleaners. The most time consuming part of making this … Read more
I decided to make this Baby Einstein Catepillar Birthday Cake after seeing pics of all the other Baby Einstein Catepillar cakes on this site. I purchased the Wilton Sports Ball pan from Michaels and used one box of cake mix for every 2 halves. I alternated with Chocolate and Yellow Cake mix, the head was … Read more
These Baby Einstein Caterpillar cakes were done for my boss’s son Hunter, for his 1st birthday in 2008. His party was the Baby Einstein theme. I used the 3-D Wilton ball pan for the larger cake and the Wilton mini ball pan for the smaller cake (smash cake). The pattern was made using the #16 … Read more