I made this Elmo cake for my nephews first birthday. He loved construction tools and Elmo so I combined them. Cover a sheet cake (any flavor) with white icing. Use red decorating icing in a tube with a star tip and pipe on stars in the shape of Elmo’s face and hands. I used black … Read more
My friend’s little girl loves Elmo so I found a picture out of a coloring book and traced it on the cake with piping gel. I used Wilton’s buttercream icing recipe and colors. Black gel to fill in the mouth. This was my very first cake so I had a hard time with smoothing the … Read more
I made a 14 inch 2 layer round cake and covered it with fondant. I baked the Elmo in an Elmo shaped pan from bulk barn and covered it in icing made from a cup of butter and a bag of icing sugar. I used a 1oz bottle of Wilton red food colouring gel and … Read more
I made this Elmo Birthday Cake Idea for my son’s second birthday as he loves Elmo. I got help from some idea of this site but as I didn’t have an Elmo pan, I decorate a round cake. Frosted with purchased icing, colored with Wilton no taste red color, then I sprinkled some small red … Read more
I have twin boy/girl grandchildren and each year I have made cakes that have coordinating characters. This year was Abby Cadabby and an Elmo Birthday Cake from Sesame Street. An Elmo pan is a Wilton Pan was easy to find. The face is made with a star tip, smooth eyes and the fur with the … Read more
I made this Elmo 1st Birthday Cake for my nephew’s 1st birthday. Bottom cake is ten” Madeira, middle is 8″ lemon, top is 6″ chocolate. I used plain sugarpaste and coloured with americolour electric colours, stacking them together using dowells as support. The stars are made from sugarpaste with gum traganth added. I used edible … Read more
This Fondant Elmo Birthday Cake is a birthday cake we made for a 1 year old boy’s birthday. It is a vanilla cake with buttercream icing and totally covered in homemade marshmallow fondant. The decorations are also made of fondant. We used Wilton cutters to cut out the decorations. We did this the day before … Read more
For my son’s second birthday, I decided to make him an Elmo Birthday Cake Idea. I searched this site for a way to make the cake without buying a special pan. I wanted to make the cake 13×9 for storage purposes. I found that the Elmo cake 71 and 39 gave me the best advice. … Read more
This Elmo birthday cake was prepared using the Betty Crocker bake and fill cake pan. I prepared a white cake mix according to directions on box and pan, filled with strawberry ice cream and froze over night. With the left over batter I also made 6 mini cupcakes, 2 of which were used for the … Read more
I bought an Elmo cake pan by Wilton, I bought white icing, and mixed a dark red food coloring in to get the perfect color for Elmo’s face. I then used white icing to make the eyes, and white icing mixed with black food coloring to make the eye balls, and mouth. I also mixed … Read more
This is an Elmo cake I made for my nephews first birthday. He loves Elmo and this was his personal cake for him to smash and enjoy all for himself! I used a 6″x3″ cake pan, the Wilton recipe for basic butter cake and Wilton’s buttercream recipe (with half butter and half shortening). I mixed … Read more
My daughter has adored Elmo since she was about 4 months old so I knew that would be the ‘theme’ for her 1st birthday. Being a busy working mom, I had originally planned to buy a cake until my sister-in-law pointed out that baking was half the fun. So I started planning the Elmo cake … Read more