I made this Monkey Around Cake for a co-worker’s grandson. It was his 1st birthday. In the recent months leading up to his first birthday the family started calling Andrew, “little monkey”. Needless to say the theme for the cake was easy! This is WILTON Monkey Pan #2105-1023. I decorated it as directed except that … Read more
Someone requested a Monkey cake from me, but gave me no idea as to how they wanted it to look. I looked on the internet but nothing really grabbed my attention. I wanted a unique Monkey Cake Design for them. One day I was shopping and came across a chocolate mold of monkeys. I wasn’t … Read more
I made this homemade monkey cake for my son Mason’s 4th birthday. I started with baking a boxed cake mix in the Wilton monkey cake pan. I then iced the sides with white icing that I had thinned out a bit with water. All the dark brown icing is Wilton’s chocolate decorator’s icing. To creat … Read more
My son wanted a monkey cake for his birthday so we went searching on the net for inspiration. We came across a picture of a cake with a monkey sitting on a pile of bananas…of course that is the one he loved. I am not a professional baker or anything so I was scared. But … Read more
I made this Curious George Birthday Cake for my partner’s nephew for his birthday present. He loves monkeys and seeing as George is his fav I thought it was the best one to do. I made it using a Madeira sponge which took 10 eggs, only just had a bowl big enough. I used an … Read more
My niece Summer is obsessed with Curious George. Most of her imaginative play includes the man with the yellow hat and George gets blamed for things Summer does. I used a Curious George party plate for my design of this Curious George Cake. Cut 2 round cakes and some cupcakes into all the pieces. I … Read more
For my sons first birthday, my husband and I decided to do a jungle/monkey theme. I used the Wilton “Animal Cracker” cake pan. The pan gives you four different ideas and instructions for animals you can create (giraffe, panda bear, pig and cat). It really looks like a bear but you just decorate it accordingly. … Read more
I got the idea for a monkey birthday cake for my sons 1st birthday from this web site. I have no fancy tins so I just baked two chocolate cakes and then attacked them with a knife. For the mouth part I cut an oval shape. For the eye part I cut a semi circle … Read more
The actual cake itself is just the funfetti mix from Pillsbury (cooked a little under temp guides so that its nice and moist). The icing is homemade almond buttercream, tinted a nice yellow or skin tone wherever needed. The hair is two different kinds of chocolate canned frosting (for color variation). We also used two … Read more
This monkey cake was a lot of fun and easy! I baked two yellow cake mixes = four 8 inch rounds. I hand carved the monkey head. The hair on top is also carved cake. I noticed the round edges of cake I had left over and decided to add the bananas! I only used … Read more
I made this Monkey Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday party. We had a whole monkey theme going on with monkey’s and bananas hanging from the chandelier’s, etc! I made this cake using a 10-12″ diameter bowl (plus a cupcake for the ears). I frosted it using chocolate buttercream frosting and a regular buttercream … Read more
I made this Monkey’s Going Bananas Cake for a friend’s daughter’s 1st birthday party. She told me to make a monkey cake, and this is what I came up with the last minute. It is a half sheet cake stacked (marbled). Then I took half of a circle mold and baked it to make the … Read more