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 was inspired by other cakes on this website and made the body of the caterpillar with a chocolate chip cake in a bundt pan. For the head of the The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I used a smaller loaf of angel food cake and cut out the shape of the head. To get the … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for a friend’s son’s 1st birthday. I got most of my ideas for it from other submissions on this site! It wasn’t too difficult, but it was fairly time-consuming. The leaf was hand-carved out of a large sheet cake, then covered in two different colors of fondant. … Read more
My daughter loves books, so when it came to making her 1st birthday cake, I looked to her book collection for ideas. The one book that seemed to have the easiest recognizable character to copy was ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. I looked at the other Hungry Caterpillar cakes on this site for … Read more
I made The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for my grandson’s 1st birthday. He has loved the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle since he was an infant. I took a cake decorating class last year but wasn’t sure I could pull this off. It turned out great! I used 1-1/2 bundt cakes, and … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake cake for my partner’s grandson. The cake is made on a base of Victoria sponge cake (homemade) and covered with soft icing. The caterpillar is made from soft icing and hand painted. Recipe for cake as follows: 8 oz each eggs, sugar, margarine, self raising flour. In … Read more
I just made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday for my son’s first birthday. I used 1.5 bundt cakes and a 20cm round cake (although should have trimmed the head a little more). I used packet vanilla cake mix for all the cakes, but made my own icing using icing mixture and butter to create the … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for my son’s 1st birthday because he loves the books and can recognize the caterpillar. For the Base: I made a large sheet cake (13x9in) of Yellow Cake from scratch – the recipe can be found here www.mumsnet.com/Recipes/call=RecipePage&pid=2828 (yellow cake freezes really well, so can be made in … Read more