I made this Cookie Monster cake for my son’s 2nd birthday and it was the talk of the party. I got the idea from this website and just made a few changes. Very easy to make. Just use a 9×13 and 9 round cake pans to make it, used cake that I cut off 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
This Homemade Grover Birthday Cake is for my 33 year old daughter that absolutely loves Grover! I bought two Halloween aluminum pumpkin cake pans (they had kind of an oblong shape). Once baked, I cut an indent on one side of the baked cake so both sides matched; I used half of a pink plastic … Read more
I started this Homemade Cookie Monster Birthday Cake by baking a single layer chocolate 10 inch square cake and a white cake in the Wilton wonder mold cake pan. I made the head with using Rice Krispie treats shaped in the ball pan. I frosted the square cake with white frosting then assembled “Cookie” by … Read more
This Cookie Monster Cake was a cake that my friend asked me to make for her daughter’s 15th birthday. I knew exactly how I was going to make him. I did two nine inch rounds for the bottom of cookie monster (equivalent to 2 sheet cake servings). It was my special chocolate recipe. I used … Read more
I made this Elmo cake for my daughter’s second birthday party. We were living in Venezuela at the time and I could not get my hands on an Elmo cake pan. I found a picture online of Elmo and my husband used an overhead projecter to enlarge it. We then traced it onto wax paper … Read more
My son’s school was having a year end party and many of the kids really like Elmo. I searched and found an appropriate picture for the cake top and made the Elmo cake. The cake is an 11X15 double layer marble cake. I always use the Dr. Oetker cake mixes for my cake because they … Read more
I dared to make an Elmo Birthday Cake for my grand-daughter’s 2nd birthday. I was trying to match the green color from the Sesame Street sign, but it turned out a big mess, because I have no idea how to mix colors, so the first batch of frosting ended up in the garbage. I then … Read more
My daughter is starting to get into Sesame Street, so I made this Oscar the Grouch cake for her 4th birthday. It took quite a bit longer than I’d anticipated (even with making & freezing the cakes ahead of time), but it was worth it! The trash can is made of 4 9″ round layers … 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
I searched the internet for an Oscar the Grouch Birthday Cake for my son’s 4th birthday, but couldn’t find one that was nice looking but still at my skill level (extremely novice). I finally came up with the idea to do a trifle inside a trash can and to put an Oscar the grouch head … Read more
I was asked to make my husband’s niece’s 1st birthday cake. I am known as the cake lady in my and my husbands family. I always baked cakes but just started specialty cakes almost two years ago. This has really become something I love doing. I used the Wilton Abby cake pan for the character, … Read more