My niece was turning 2, and my sister wanted a super cute Frog Cake to go with the theme of her party ware. I struggled with ideas for this cake, and finally went to Bing to get some ideas. I decided on a two tiered cake, that has a frog on a lilly pad as … Read more
My daughter wanted a frog themed party for her third birthday. I tried to buy a retired Wiltons frog pan from EBay but the prices just got ridiculous. Then I was browsing through my mother-in-laws old Wiltons yearbooks for a frog birthday cake recipe and saw a frog cake made using a bell pan. The … Read more
My neice wanted a frog cake for her 3rd birthday party. I was elected to come up with it. I searched the net over and over. Then came up with this frog cake idea. I used a regular Duncan Hines cake mix. I mixed by package directions. I sprayed a nine inch pan and a … Read more
To prepare these kinds of frog cakes, I used a cake mix in my large, glass Pampered Chef mixing bowl. It can go right in the oven. After it cooled, I used a knife to scrape the edges and turned the bowl upside down to get the cake out. I then iced the cake with … Read more
I had a request for this monkey cake from my son’s best friend turning 22 last month. I used a round spring foam cake pan for the head and a Wilton oval (football) shaped cake pan for the face and then I cut an additional oval in half for the ears. The cake itself is … Read more
This monkey cake was for a first birthday party for a friend’s son, and the theme was monkeys. I used a Wilton monkey shaped cake pan for this. I made the Wilton buttercream in white and also a set in chocolate. To make the light brown, I mixed a little of the chocolate in with … Read more
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
