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
I made this monkey cake for my son’s 6 month “birthday” because we always call him our little monkey. First, I started out by making one large rectangle cake, a round cake, and a smaller round cake. I frosted the rectangle cake with chocolate frosting, then placed the larger round cake in the center of … Read more
My 10-year-old wanted a Baboon Birthday Cake so I had to get inventive. The batter was two butter recipe cake mixes and the head was baked in three pieces using a 2 ½ quart glass bowl, a 2-cup oven-proof cereal bowl, and a mini loaf pan. To make the head, I inverted and leveled the … Read more
My homemade Curious George Birthday cake was a chocolate one with chocolate cream cheese icing. The polka dots were simply candy melts pressed into icing. George’s head, the number 2, the nameplate, bananas and yellow hat were handmade from home tinted fondant. The number 2 and George’s head had toothpicks inserted into the fondant so … Read more
My husband joined me in the kitchen to make this fun Curious George cake. I began with a printout of Curious George’s face, enlarged to fit the pan. I taped the printout to a cutting board, and over that I taped wax paper. For each color I used candy melts and chocolate chips, piped out … Read more
You will need 2 cake mixes for this monkey face cake. I used devils food cake. You will also need The Pampered Chef Batter Bowl greased and floured. Mix one cake mix as usual and pour into floured Batter Bowl. Bake at 350 until toothpick or cake tester comes out clean. Usually 45-60 minutes. Reserve … Read more
Sam is our little “monkey”. I used his stuffed monkey as a model for his 1st birthday monkey birthday cake. I made up a triple batch of banana cake mixture. I baked a round banana cake then baked more batter in some individual pie dishes I had for the ears (I wanted something a bit … Read more
The large cake is a traditional butter cake, which used 9 eggs – it was a very firm cake which made cutting out the Curious George shape easier. The Curious George feet and hands had to be attached using toothpicks. The balloon cakes (same recipe but with 6 eggs each) were made using an oval … Read more
My daughter’s 2nd birthday was a monkey theme from Birthday Express. I took the plates and just made the cute Monkey Face Birthday Cake from that onto the cake. It’s cute and simple. Just Wilton decorator icing from the big container and food coloring. I didn’t tort the cake or make two layers, since it … Read more