I made this Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for my son’s 1st birthday last January when there was big publicity for the Hungry Caterpillar story, celebrating it’s (40th?) anniversary. I still had some ready-made, ready-to-roll icing left over from the Christmas cake season, and used this to make the caterpillar. The cake is a basic sponge … Read more
This Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake was made using individual cupcakes which were dyed green inside with food colouring (to make it all the more caterpillary) covered in rolled icing to make the body and head, and a basic sponge cake mixture for the base, cut into a strawberry shape. There is homemade strawberry jam … Read more
This cake I came up with after looking at another childrens birthday cake on this site. Like the others I used the Wiltons sports ball pan to make the half circles. I wanted different textures like you would have on a real caterpillar so that is what you see with all the “spikey’s.” I placed … Read more
For this Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake, I just followed the existing caterpillar pattern (the ones showed in this cake gallery) with a few changes in the way I decorated each round cake pattern-wise). I used the whipping cream icing from Wiltons with no 16.
My mother and I made an ADORABLE Baby Einstein caterpillar cake for my son’s first birthday. It was very time consuming, but I am so glad that we did it. I was so excited to see how well it turned out. We actually baked and decorated the cake the day before his birthday because his … Read more
My two year old daughter adores the Baby Einstein videos and Einstein Caterpillar (aka Blinky). After researching other Baby Einstein caterpillar cakes I decided I wanted a three dimensional version of the caterpillar and used a mini sports ball pan to achieve it. The pan has six small semi-spheres so I baked two batches for … Read more