My daughter talks about Elmo non-stop, so naturally her cake was Elmo. I used the Wilton Elmo birthday cake pan. I found out that if you make the red frosting 3 days in advance (with the no-taste tulip red), it will get redder over time instead of jus t d ark pink. I liked giving … Read more
This Elmo cake was made simply by using one cake mix and two 8 inch round cake pans. I bought two containers of Pillsburys Creamy vanilla frosting for the decorating. I tinted one and a quarter containers of icing red and spread some between the two stacked layers. I tinted a small amount of the … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. It was my first attempt at a character cake, and it was a lot of fun. The cake is a 2-layer, 12 inch square, and required about 10 cups of batter per layer, and baked 55 minutes each. I used Betty Crocker pudding in the … Read more
My daughter is gluten intolerant, and loves Elmo! I hired the Wilton’s tin and made a packet gluten free chocolate packet cake. I did it the easy way and used the pre made Betty Crocker icing and coloured it as needed, and used ‘plastic’ icing for the white bits which I did first because if … Read more
This Elmo Birthday Cake was made by my sister and I for a friend’s daughter’s first birthday. She had requested that baby Elmo and the number one be on top and that the cake was made out of a chocolate and white chocolate marble mud cake but otherwise we were free to design the rest … Read more
I made this cake for my niece’s 2nd birthday part. The Elmo head is chocolate make with the Wilton Elmo cake pan. The cake is double layer 12 and 14 in red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. I covered the homemade Elmo birthday cake with home made marshmallow fondant and tinted it yellow and … Read more
I started this Elmo Cupcakes and Cake with an 8″ single layer round cake, then cutout enough room for 2 eyes to slide into the top part of the cake. I cut off the top of a cupcake, frosted it and put it below/between the eyes to make the nose. I then frosted the entire … Read more
I made this Elmo Cake for my very sweet 2yr old little boy!! It is a three layer white cake with coconut cream filling. I made the coconut cream filling from scratch but instead of adding the coconut I used coconut extract because I didn’t want the coconut texture in my cake. I just used … Read more
The Elmo cake was for my first grandson, Michael, on his third birthday. It was an 11” x 17” cake pan and it takes 2 cake mixes for this size pan. I prefer Duncan Hines cake mixes and always sit the oven temperature at 315 degrees so that the cake center will rise flat and … Read more
I made these Sesame characters and Elmo birthday cakes for my sons 1st birthday. I actually surprised myself with how well they turned out! I originally purchased an Elmo cake pan on E-bay but it didn’t arrive in time for me to use it. So I winged it instead. I used one box mix and … Read more
Here is our Elmo cake that we used for my son’s 4th birthday. Used marshmallows for the eyes and m&m’s for the eyes and nose, underneath the orange M&M’s are those gummy orange pieces. We covered it in white frosting and then I used strawberry frosting and darkened it up with food coloring and sprinkled … Read more
