These Homemade Cookie Dough – Cookie Monster Cupcakes were fun to make and tasted great! They actually had cookie dough inside them! Yum! I made these using a yellow cake mix but I have made them before using a chocolate cake mix – I liked the chocolate best! The day before you make your cupcakes … Read more
I scanned a picture from a book my kids have for this Oscar the Grouch Birthday Cake. Enlarged the picture, printed it out, taped the pages together to make a template and then cut it out. I used a 9in roe for his head and 3, 9×13 cake pans for the trash can and the … Read more
For my son, Stone’s, 3rd birthday party he decided on a Sesame Street theme! For his “friends’ party” I made Sesame Street Elmo Cookie Monster Big Bird Cupcakes. **helpful hint: much easier to hand out to kids then cutting a cake** I used store boxed cake mix and made cupcakes as directed and let them … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake for my son’s 1st birthday party with our family. He loves Sesame Street! The top tier is 2 6-inch yellow cakes, and the bottom is 2 10-inch chocolate cakes (with 4 plastic support dowels inserted to hold the weight of the top tier). I tinted white icing with no … Read more
To make this cake I baked the following: – two 8 inch round cakes – two 10 inch round cakes – two 1 quart Pyrex bowl cakes – two bread loaf pan cakes. To assemble Cookie Monster using the above mentioned baked cakes: – 8 inch round on the bottom, two 10 inch rounds stacked … Read more
I made this Elmo birthday cake for my nephew Ethans 2nd birthday. Elmo was one of his first words so it was an easy choice. I added crayon candles that I found in the grocery store (Elmo loves his crayons!) that happened to match the Elmo paper plates that were available at that time. I … Read more
My daughter was very into Elmo, so for her second birthday, I did an Elmo theme. I bought a cake pan to make balls and put the ball together for Elmos head. I cut off part of the back so it would lay flat securely. I made an 8×11 cake and trimmed it to make … Read more
This Elmo themed cake was made for my son’s 2nd birthday. The top is a double layer cake, with butter cream and marshmallow fondant. We used the Sesame Street cut-out on the site as a stencil for the “Greyson” Sesame Street sign. We emphasized the “2” for his birthday. The sides of the cake have … Read more
This Sesame Street cake was for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. She loved it! I took ideas from a few other cakes on this website and kind of combined them all! I used a glass Pyrex bowl to bake the cakes for Elmo and Cookie Monster! For the frosting I used a buttercream for the bottom … Read more
The cake part of this Homemade Budget Sesame Street Birthday Cake was super easy and cheap. I bought 2 boxes of cake mix (I did strawberry and the confetti-vanilla), and baked each in a 9-inch round pan. For the purple icing, I bought plain grocery store vanilla, colored it with Whitman’s food coloring, and lathered … Read more
I made this Dorothy The Dinosaur Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I didn’t like the standard ‘head’ Dorothy cakes so I created my own! I used one of those dolly tins (not sure of their actual name) for the body and carved up a bar cake to create the head, arms and tail. I … Read more
