My son Chase begged for a Curious George Birthday Cake for his 3rd birthday, so I gave in and made one from scratch. I tore out a George face from one of Chase’s coloring books and used a copy machine to enlarge the face to the exact size of cake I wanted. First I made … Read more
My nephew was born on St. Patty’s day and he loves Curious George. For his birthday he wanted a monkey cake. The cakes were French vanilla covered in butter cream and then coated in marshmallow fondant. Everything on this Curious George birthday cake was edible except Curious George. I made the bananas with my hand … Read more
I used tan and brown frosting and copied the mouth, nose, and eye placement out of a Curious George book. I was afraid I would screw up the pupils in the eyes so I used peanut m&m’s to solve that problem.
The cake recipe is from Wilton and can be found at www.wilton.com. It is the Double Fudge Grooms cake and the frosting recipe’s are from the Wilton site too. This is a combination of their Chocolate Butter cream and Regular Butter cream. The cake template is from a Curious George mask I found at www.pbs.com. … Read more
My sister made this Curious George Birthday Cake for our son’s 1st birthday party. She made the cake with 2 flavors, 1 side was chocolate cake with vanilla Bavarian and fresh strawberries. The other side was white cake with vanilla Bavarian and fresh bananas. That side went really good with the monkey theme. The cake … Read more
I made this Curious George Birthday Cake for my daughter’s birthday. She just turned three. As you can see she is a big Curious George fan. I used the animal crackers pan. It was very easy to use and decorate.
This Curious George cake took 1 1/2 tubs each of ready-made chocolate and vanilla frosting. (You will have 4 colors out of the vanilla frosting: yellow flesh white and black.) Flavor a portion of the vanilla frosting with banana extract, tint it with yellow food coloring and use it for the layer in between the … Read more
I got inspiration for this Curious George Birthday Cake from a few cakes on this site. I used two box mixes of yellow cake mix, one was split between two 9″ rounds, one box was split between on 9″ round, and one bread pan (this one took longer than the round). For the main cake, … Read more
I decided to have a Curious George themed birthday for my son’s first birthday. As most moms out there will see, there is no cake pan or design specific to Curious George, so I had to tap into my unfound artistic skills. I used a 12″ square cake pan to bake 2 boxes of regular … Read more
I grabbed one of his invitations and made an outline. Then a few days before the party I practiced using the star tip, because while I had made cakes in the past, it had basically been me making a box cake and throwing some frosting on it. The Curious George cake was made up of … Read more
The image was just traced off of a napkin and was enlarged on the computer and then inverted with piping gel onto the cake. Just invert the image and start filling in with color. The background of the trees was just a few different shades of green blended in together. This was a really fun … Read more
