My daughter, after watching an old Baby Einstein video, decided she didnt want a Spiderman cake after all for her third birthday party; she wanted a caterpillar cake! So I utilized this website to help come up with my Baby Einstein caterpillar cakes and there were some really great ideas. I started by buying the … Read more
I also got the idea for this caterpillar cake by browsing this site, so thank you, coolest-birthday-cakes.com! My twins were turning 3, and I wanted a cake that would work for both a boy and a girl, and since they love the Baby Einstein caterpillar, I got inspired to do this, even though it was … Read more
My sister and I made this caterpillar cake for my daughter’s first birthday. Lacey just loves bright colours and different textures, so I thought a caterpillar would be a great design to incorporate those ideas. I made a vanilla cake from the following recipe: *Note* I doubled this recipe as I wanted a large amount … Read more
This Baby Einstein cake was done for my sons 1st birthday! I used the Wilton ball pans for the circles. I used Wilton icing with a star tip for decorating the cake. I had to use sugar free on the end for a certain guest so it didn’t turn out but it ended up working … Read more
For this Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake I used the Wilton sports ball cake pan. I did each cake a different flavor, to give the guests a variety. I made Wilton’s standard butter cream frosting and for the red I used the “no flavor” variety. I had to use a lot of gel coloring, to get … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used various suggestions from this site which were very helpful. I made 2 bundt cakes cut in half for the caterpillar. The head is a section from one of the halves. I ended up with extra cake which I used to make … Read more
My daughter loves the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, so I decided to make her a Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for her first birthday. I used a yellow layer cake recipe and increased it by 50% to made one Bundt cake and one 9×5 loaf cake. I cut the Bundt cake in half, then cut … Read more
Obviously this isn’t an original cake idea. My friend and I were looking all over this cake gallery and this site at cake ideas for her sons 1st birthday and she LOVED the caterpillar cakes. So she asked me if I could do this one. She wanted it to be the colors of the rainbow … Read more
I made this childrens birthday cake for my son Tylers second birthday. I used four small oven proof glass bowls and a slightly bigger one for the head. The cake mixture was just your average butter cake pre-mixed packet from the supermarket. When the cakes were cooked – I sliced the raised top of each … Read more
I used 2 Wilton dome pans (4 domes in each pan), 1 box of cake mix, let cool really well in pan then turn upside down to let the domes slide out, hopefully unharmed. I then used Wilton roll out Fondant icing (a little hint: knead in a little bit of clear vanilla or almond … Read more
Using Wiltons Ball pan I baked 5 ball halves, let cool and leveled each one by cutting off excess cake horizontally (from the “bottom” of the body section). I traced the caterpillar shape onto cardboard using the cake pan so I would know how long the board needed to be. Then I cut the edges … Read more
For my daughter’s first birthday party I chose to make Baby Einstein Caterpillar cakes. I got many great ideas and tips for this web site prior to starting my own variation. It was time consuming but well worth all the effort. I didn’t bake the cakes the day before but do recommend it if you … Read more