This is an Elmo cake that was made for a little boys 1st Birthday! I used the Wilton Elmo shaped pan. This was the first time that I had used a shaped pan and I love it! It made decorating so easy! I made sure to grease and flour just the bottom of the pan. … Read more
This was my first character cake, didn’t expect it to even turn out but I was pleasantly surprised. I just cooked two dome cakes with a Pyrex glass bowl. I used 2 boxes of cake mix and put 3cups in each bowl and then made cupcakes with the leftovers. Then I put them together and gave … Read more
My little girl loves Elmo and has many Elmo toys. Since she likes Elmo so much, I decided to design and make my own Elmo Birthday Cake. This cake is a butter cake which is “hard” enough for the fondant to rest onto. I bought ready made fondant from supermarket, rolled it flat and cover … Read more
My daughter’s 1st birthday cake had to be an Elmo Birthday Cake, since she cheered every time he appeared on TV. I have never made a character cake before, and I just followed a picture I had of him. I used Wilson frosting red, black, white, and orange. Next, I used the star tip for his … Read more
For every birthday my daughter picks a cartoon or movie character and we do a theme party upon her choice. For her eighth birthday she was so in love with Bear in the Blue House (and I have to admit that I was nuts about this cuddly bear too!!) so I decided to do a … Read more
I made this Cookie Monster cake for my son’s second birthday party. It was my very first attempt at decorating! I didn’t want to spend the money on a pan (and couldn’t find cookie monster anyway) so I just baked a sheet cake and iced it white then traced an outline of cookie monster on … Read more
We were asked to make one of those cool animated Elmo cakes for our friends daughter’s second birthday. The theme is Elmo so we were going to try to make a cake to match his TV show, Elmo’s World. We decided to steer away from eating Elmo since it may have traumatized the two year … Read more
Ever since Julia was 4 months old she has been mesmerized by the cute characters of “In the Night Garden”. And so who else but Iggle Piggle would do for her first birthday cake? I scoured the internet searching for ideas on a Homemade Iggle Piggle Birthday Cake, but all seemed too involved with cutting … Read more
I made this Kermit cake in a 9 x 13 pan and let it cool. After it cooled I iced it with chocolate icing. I printed a picture of Kermit that I found online. I used the picture as a guide to draw Kermit into the icing on the cake with a toothpick. Then I … Read more
This was for my daughter’s first birthday. This was my first ever cake. I found prints of Sesame Street Big Bird and Elmo and enlarged them on the computer. I used piping gel to make the outline on wax paper and inverted the design on the butter cream frosted cake. I then filled in the … Read more