I made this cookie monster cake for my daughters 2nd Birthday. It was a chocolate cake with butter cream icing. I had also made an Elmo cake with this one. She loved them both.s 2nd Birthday. It was a chocolate cake with butter cream icing. I had also made an Elmo cake with this one. … Read more
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For my daughters second birthday she wanted a Sesame Street theme. The first picture is her main cake which used the Wilton Elmo cake pan. I used a star tip for the red and just frosted the other colors to give it some contrast. I found that Wilton “Icing Colors” gel color worked great to … Read more
I used the Wilton Bert & Ernie cake pan from the 1970s to create this Sesame Street character cake for our twin boys’ 3rd birthday party. I used a butter cake recipe, and Betty Crocker cream cheese frosting colored in the appropriate shades. The hair is homemade chocolate buttercream frosting with black food coloring added. … Read more
This Homemade Elmo & Cookie Monster Cake was, hands down the most awesome cake I’ve ever done. I sculpted the heads out of rice crispy treats and the bodies were carved entirely from cake. I used a grass tip for Elmo’s fur and a basket tip for Cookie Monster’s fur. The eyes and noses were … Read more
I used all Duff cake products (you can purchase at Michael’s), Cake mix, fondant, icing, and buttercream, tips, fondant smoother,cake spray paint, and Duff’s cake tattoo’s. Tip: use 1 egg for the white cake mix even though it doesn’t call for any eggs. It will collapse if you don’t. I learned the hard way. I … Read more
This Sesame Street cake was a big challenge for me it being the second one Ive ever done. I made six pound cakes using mixes and pudding mixes (easy recipe found online) cutting the top layer of each tier diagonally and repositioning it turned around the other way to add height at one end and … Read more
This Dorothy Dinosaur cake was for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I used a white chocolate mud cake recipe for this cake and enlarged a picture I traced from my daughter’s Wiggles book and cut out the shape of Dorothy. I used Betty Crocker’s ready made icing for the green (adding green food dye). I then … Read more
This Homemade Wiggles Birthday Cake is a cake that I made for the Wiggles to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. It was presented to them at a show in Chicago. It is a three tier cake covered in fondant and all of the figures are made of gumpaste.
I got my ideas for a Wiggles cake from this website. I did this Halloween cake several years ago with sugar cookies (kind of like a ginger bread house), cut a model out of cardboard and then cut my cookies and built it with sugar glue (royal icing). I saw this cake done differently on … Read more
Thanks to this site which has so many birthday cake ideas for children, I found a Wiggles cake. My son loves The Wiggles. This is a three layer chocolate cake. I made the big red car out of a chocolate cake baked in a loaf pan. I craved the cake by hand and decorated it. … Read more
For this Henry the Octopus kid cake I used the Wilton 16-inch square pan. I found a picture of Henry and enlarged it. Using piping gel, I traced the outline. I covered the photo with clear contact paper before I laid it on the cake so that not all the frosting would come off. The … Read more