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
This Curious George cake was made for my grandson’s 2nd birthday party. I used a Bear cake mold from William’s Sonoma and modified it to look like George. With the mold I filled the ears of the mold with tin foil and then fashioned ears out of fondant. For the covering of the cake I … Read more
I made a three layer Curious George cake for the guests with two banana layers and a chocolate layer in the middle. I copied a picture of Curious George off of the website and used that as a stencil.I made a smaller circus tent cake just for Béla. That one was more complicated. I also … Read more
to make George look like George I got my daughters stuffed animal and then used home made buttercream frosting tinted brown and also lightened to make tan to create the George we all know and love. He was a huge hit with my daughter and everyone at the party!s stuffed animal and then used home … Read more
My daughter celebrated her 3rd birthday on the 4th of July. Her favorite character is Curious George. When I checked out the local stores for a Curious George cake, all they would do is place plastic characters on an ordinary cake of your choosing – which I thought was pathetic. I finally located a store … Read more
I made this Curious George cake for my son’s first birthday. At first, I wanted to make the cake red, yellow, and blue. However, after much research and several attempts at making red fondant, I decided it would be best to go with blue and yellow as my red fondant was more fuchsia, even though … Read more
This Homemade Curious George Cake seems to be the most common to build. I made it for my niece’s son who turned 1. The hat is vanilla sponge with what else, banana filling. Then a buttercreme crumb coat and covered in yellow fondant. The monkey was harder because I didn’t want to use too much … Read more
I made the cake out of the Wilton yellow cake recipe and baked a 11×18 sheet pan and one 6″ round pan. I had to double the recipe to be sure I had enough. The decorating was done in the Wilton butter frosting for the base coat on the main and small cake. I then … 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
My son, Aidan chose a Curious George theme for his third birthday. I found all of the supplies at the party store, but was stumped on how to make a Curious George cake that didn’t make me cringe when I looked at it (I’m a perfectionist!). I decided to take my inspiration from the classic … 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
When my nephew was in the hospital, I told him I would make him a banana cake when he got out. So when he did, I prepared a Curious George cake in keeping with the banana theme. It was a double layer 10″ chocolate cake filled with banana flavored frosting. I used copious amounts of … Read more