My little boy was turning 1 and loved Elmo so I came up with this really simple way to create an Elmo cake. I used a 10-inch round cake pan and made a chocolate Devils food cake out of a box and used store bought red white and black icing to do the rest. I … Read more
For my Elmo birthday cakes I made two 9″ round cakes of any flavor. I went and got one can of frosting and put the frosting on the cake. For the elmo I made the basic butter cream icing and I decorated it on a peace of wax paper so if I made a mistake … Read more
Elmo’s head is made from 2 boxed cake recipes baked in a Kitchen Aid stand mixer bowl. I baked it for 1 and ½ hours at 350 and then checked it every 10 minutes using a bamboo skewer until done. Getting the frosting “Elmo red” took 1 and a half bottles of food coloring. Line … Read more
My 2 year old LOVES Elmo (I swear it was one of his first words), so a homemade Elmo birthday cake was a no-brainer. However, I couldn’t justify spending the money on an Elmo cake pan that I would use once. This homemade Elmo birthday cake I made out of two 8-inch rounds, which I … Read more
Thanks to all the great ideas from this site, I was able to come up with this Elmo birthday cake. My friend who is a much more experienced cake decorator came to help me (this was my first attempt). I made a 9×13 cake with a buttercream/shortening icing. I found a picture of Elmo on … Read more
I made this Elmo 2nd Birthday Cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I found a picture of Elmo I liked in a coloring book, so we scanned it. My husband, an engineer, uploaded it into AutoCad to resize it for me and also to add the “2”. After he did this, we printed it out … Read more
This Elmo cake was for my sons first b-day and yes he loves ELMO!! I used the Wilton Elmo cake pan and like some else suggested on this webpage, I used a bigger star tip then suggested. For the base, I used a cookie sheet just so I had somewhere to write Happy Birthday.s first … Read more
I made this cake for a friend of mine who found some napkins at the dollar store with pictures of elmo birthday cakes on them. It was not too hard to free hand on the cake because Elmo does not have a lot of features. I had lots of fun making the cake. The most … Read more
