Take a look at these cool homemade The Very Hungry Caterpillar cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
My nephew’s favorite book when he turned one was the Very Hungry Caterpillar. For his birthday cake I decided to make the Caterpillar and it turned out to be an amazing cake. I used three bunt cakes that I cut up to make the body. I made two different colored green icings to cover the … Read more
I made this two tier double chocolate cake for a first birthday boy Who loves the story book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The two tiers were made of the same soft moist chocolate cake with a cookies and cream center. Both tiers were covered with white fondant. Each tier was divided by multiple colored balls of fondant. We made the caterpillar out of gum … Read more
I was asked to make a cake of a children’s book, The Hungry Caterpillar. I researched online to get ideas. Most of the cakes were three tier. They were nice, but I decided I wanted this cake to look like a book. This cake was fun to make, cutting out all the foods and pieces … Read more
My daughter loves the Hungry Caterpillar book, her favorite part is looking at the many colors on the inside cover. For her second birthday, I wanted to make her cake that looked like the inside cover but I didn’t have a lot of time. I bought a chocolate cake mix and vanilla frosting, several different … Read more
I made this amazing cake for my daughters first birthday. It was baked using a bundt pan and cut into three pieces and reassembled into the caterpillar shape. The “hump” piece must be larger than the other two to make it the right shape. (I cut a template with paper and played with it until … Read more
I was asked to make The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for someone I work with. It needed to feed quite a few people so I decided to make a sheet cake. For the decorations I used Royal Icing (recipe on Wilton.com). The dots were made using the icing, in a piping bag with a #12 … Read more
For my daughter’s first birthday I decided that I wanted to make a cake based on one of her favourite books. After narrowing it down to ones that wouldn’t take me ten years and a thousand dollars to do justice to, I settled on Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake. I made the body out of … Read more
My son Noah loves The Very Hungary Caterpillar by Eric Carle. For his second birthday I decided to have a Very Hungary Caterpillar Birthday Party. The Very Hungary Caterpillar Birthday Cake was surprisingly easy. I got the basic idea for the caterpillar from a friend of mine. First I baked a half-sheet cake for the … Read more
My daughter wanted a cake that looked like a caterpillar for her birthday, so I looked online for ideas and came across this site! I based my cake off of similar ideas, but of course put my own colors and decorating ideas on it to fit what I envisioned! I think this Very Hungry Caterpillar … Read more
I made this Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. I used various suggestions from this site which were very helpful. I made 2 bundt cakes cut in half for the caterpillar. The head is a section from one of the halves. I ended up with extra cake which I used to make … Read more
My daughter loves the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, so I decided to make her a Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake for her first birthday. I used a yellow layer cake recipe and increased it by 50% to made one Bundt cake and one 9×5 loaf cake. I cut the Bundt cake in half, then cut … Read more
I was inspired by other cakes on this website and made the body of the caterpillar with a chocolate chip cake in a bundt pan. For the head of the The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I used a smaller loaf of angel food cake and cut out the shape of the head. To get the … Read more