My son loves to “read” look at books and one of his favorites is the VHC. He loves all Eric Carle books, which is why I wanted to make The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for his first birthday party. I do not do much baking. I am guessing this will change because I have many … Read more
My nephew asked for a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake and so I went on a mission to make the perfect one. I figured I needed something that would make a curved cake with ridges, bundt cake tin! I tried a couple, none were ridged enough until I shelled out for the (very expensive) Nordicware one. … Read more
It was my daughters first birthday and I liked the idea of bugs and butterflies for the theme. So I came to this website and saw the cute caterpillar cakes and decided that’s the childrens birthday cake I wanted to do. It was my best cake yet and the easiest. You just use a dome … Read more
For this Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake — each cake was a different flavor, chocolate, lemon, strawberry, orange and vanilla. I used Betty Crocker frosting with food coloring. I used 9-inched Wilton baking pans. I set the cake on a piece of 3/8″ plywood that was 2X 4′.X 4..
My son loved watching Baby Einstein movies; in fact its the only thing he’d watch! His favorite by far was the caterpillar. So for his first birthday I decided to have the Baby Einstein theme, but like others, I had a really hard time finding anything with the caterpillar, especially when it came to the … Read more
I got this Baby Einstein cake idea from this website so I thought Id share my finished product. I wanted to find a cake idea for my son’s 1st birthday and this was perfect. The Baby Einstein videos are a lifesaver in my home and he LOVES them, so it was only natural to have … Read more
This is a Caterpillar Birthday Cake I found in the Woman’s Weekly kids cakes and thought I’d put my own twist on it for my son’s 2nd birthday. I ended up making chocolate mud and white chocolate mud cakes in round bowl type tins and then cut down into the correct sizes until I got … Read more
I wanted as natural looking cake as possible. The Caterpillar Birthday Cake itself was an ordinary carrot cake and used standard icing. Once cake icing set, I position a caterpillar on top(I made it out of banana and used a small apricot for its head). Then I used the same cake icing just added some … Read more
I made this for my friend for her sons 1st birthday (Linkin loves Baby Einstein). I used 1 liter Pyrex glass bowls (which you can buy from any super market) lined with baking paper to bake the balls. I had 3 different types of cake – 1 ball caramel mud, 2 chocolate mud and 2 … Read more
My son was into Baby Einstein and I wanted to have something different for his first Birthday. I couldn’t at the time find anything online that was more than a flat cake with a drawing on top. So I made this Baby Einstein 1st birthday cake. I could have used the Wilton mini ball pan, … Read more
I learned a lot about how to start thinking about this cake from this site. So, Thank you! I baked two bundt cakes for the body and one round cake for the head. I cut the bundt cakes into thirds and reshaped them. I then sliced them in half length-wise to create two layers. I … Read more
I got the idea for my daughters first birthday cake from the Wilton website and also this website. Thanks to everyone for posting their childrens birthday cake pictures! I couldn’t find the cake pan required for the round cakes and wanted it a little smaller so I found a small glass bowl at a kitchen … Read more