My son was turning one and even though I’m not a big baker/cook, I really wanted to be able to say I made him his first cake. After thinking more on it and doing some research I found some examples of some really cute Monkey Birthday Cupcakes (from this site actually) and I just knew … Read more
I made this Monkey birthday cake for my youngest son’s 1st birthday. I used the Wilton Monkey pan to bake it. I iced the sides in white icing and then made the outlines on the cake with tip #3. I tinted some icing brown and some with a tiny bit of peach and brown and … Read more
I made these Banana Monkey Face Cupcakes and cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. We had his party at an indoor playground called The Monkey Room in New Orleans so of course, “monkeys” were a fitting theme. I initially wanted to do a banana cake because monkeys eat bananas. Then I got the idea for … Read more
This forum gave me the confidence to make these Curious George birthday cakes for my twins. There is no pan to work from so I rented a 12″ x 1″2 cake pan and used two boxes of cake mix for each cake. Once the cakes had cooled, I froze them for a day to make … Read more
Due to lack of time and the fact that this Curious George Birthday Cake was the first cake that I’ve ever decorated, I purchased a plain white iced cake from the grocery store. I then bought Wilton white decorators icing to tint myself. First, I tried to make brown by mixing green and red, but … Read more
I baked these cupcakes as box directed. I iced them with a dark chocolate icing. I cut mini nutter butters in half for the ears. I used cheerios for the eyes and I used a vanilla wafer with part cut off the mouth area. I put two dots if icing for the nostrils.
I made two 12″ round cakes and one 9″ round for this monkey birthday cake. The 9″ was used for its tummy and the arms and legs are made from the two 12″ cakes. I used something round that allows about 2 1/2″ on each side of the 12″ cake to cut the arms and … Read more
For Curious George I enlarged a party napkin on a photocopier, traced it onto a piece of parchment paper and when the yellow frosting had crusted a bit used a sewing needle to poke the outlines onto the cake. When I lifted up the paper there was a very delicate dotted outline of George that … Read more
The monkey head was actually baked in 3 bowls – 2 of the same size (to make a ball) and one very small one, they were stuck together with a simple chocolate buttercream and skewers then trimmed down to more resemble a monkey face. The face of the monkey cake was put together in 3 … Read more
I made this monkey cake for a friend’s daughter’s second birthday. She wanted a monkey cake so I used boxed cake recipe to make two 9in layer cakes. I used one cake for the head. The other round cake I used to carve out two ears and a number two (for the birthday girl’s personal … Read more
This Monkey Birthday Cake Design was for my very own cheeky Monkey. I baked a 10″ cake and one 8″ cake, the 8″ one just in a sandwich tin as I didn’t want it to be as deep as the bigger cake (very rich chocolate cake recipe). I drew a template on to a piece … Read more
