Take a look at these cool homemade The Very Hungry Caterpillar cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
My nephew’s favorite book when he turned one was the Very Hungry Caterpillar. For his birthday cake I decided to make the Caterpillar and it turned out to be an amazing cake. I used three bunt cakes that I cut up to make the body. I made two different colored green icings to cover the … Read more
I made this two tier double chocolate cake for a first birthday boy Who loves the story book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The two tiers were made of the same soft moist chocolate cake with a cookies and cream center. Both tiers were covered with white fondant. Each tier was divided by multiple colored balls of fondant. We made the caterpillar out of gum … Read more
I was asked to make a cake of a children’s book, The Hungry Caterpillar. I researched online to get ideas. Most of the cakes were three tier. They were nice, but I decided I wanted this cake to look like a book. This cake was fun to make, cutting out all the foods and pieces … Read more
My daughter loves the Hungry Caterpillar book, her favorite part is looking at the many colors on the inside cover. For her second birthday, I wanted to make her cake that looked like the inside cover but I didn’t have a lot of time. I bought a chocolate cake mix and vanilla frosting, several different … Read more
I made this amazing cake for my daughters first birthday. It was baked using a bundt pan and cut into three pieces and reassembled into the caterpillar shape. The “hump” piece must be larger than the other two to make it the right shape. (I cut a template with paper and played with it until … Read more
I got bored a few summers back when I first started making cakes. I decided to make a Caterpillar Birthday Cake, kind of a cross between the Very Hungry Caterpillar and Cooties (from the game). Anyway I made a bundt cake and cut it in sections and placed them upright to give it more of … Read more
This Hungry Caterpillar Cake was for my son’s 1st birthday. He has a caterpillar that he carries everywhere so it made sense that his first cake would be a copy of his best friend. I made the body using a bundt cake cut into sections iced with 2 shades of green icing. The sections are … Read more
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
I wanted to make a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake but one that reflected the book clearly so my one year old could identify it more easily. I made a basic large lemon sponge cake, covered it with roll out icing (stuck down with lemon curd). I traced the leaf from the book, cut it out … Read more
My husband and I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for our baby’s first birthday. It took about 1 1/2 bundt cakes to get just the right shape to the caterpillar. I made the icing and just tried to swirl in the greens, etc for the body. There is a yellow outline along the … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for my son’s first birthday. The party was for only 10 children and 30 adults so I didn’t want too much food colouring! I made a chocolate brownie base for the adults, approx 20x30cm, nice and solid. I made mini cupcakes made from a plain lemon cupcake … Read more