It’s our Elli’s first birthday and for some reason only Big Bird from Sesame Street would do (for me). The Elli Big Bird Cake Design is a flat pan version of a chiffon cake recipe, tasty but simple. The difficulty is working out how to cut it, but after downloading a picture of Sesame Street’s … Read more
My granddaughter invited Elmo to her 2nd birthday party, so I chose a Elmo Birthday Cake Idea for her. I used boxed cake mix and store bought icing. I used a bundt pan to make the cake for the body and a Pyrex bowl for the head. I cut a wedge out of the “head” … Read more
My daughter gets 2 cakes every year. An elaborate one for her party at home, and a simple one to bring to school. This year for her 5th birthday, she had a Princess Jasmine’s Arabian Castle Cake for her party, and Sesame Street cupcakes for school. I baked a 6 inch cake for cutting, accompanied … Read more
I made this cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I used the Wilton Elmo cake pan. Looking at a Zoe Sesame Street picture, I outlined in all of the main parts and filled in with the star tip. This cake did take a while to make due to the many different colors that had to … Read more
I made this Cookie Monster for a friends daughter’s first birthday. She loves Cookie Monster. I used the Wilton Cuddly Bear pan. I had to relocate the ears to make the eyes. I just used a star tip to cover the cake in blue icing. I made matching cupcakes of Cookie Monster faces to match.s … Read more
This Elmo birthday cake was made in the Elmo cake pan. It was pretty easy to decorate. Its mostly red star tipped icing. The mouth was tricky to get to look nice. A toothpick and slightly moist offset spatula helped define and smooth. I cut a piece of cardboard in the shape of this Sesame … Read more
This Elmo cake is the first cake I have ever decorated, so it was quite an accomplishment for me. I made it for my sons 2nd birthday. I started with a round cake and cut off a triangular shape off the two sides to create Elmo’s shaped face. Then scooped out a bit of cake … Read more
I wanted an easy to make Elmo cake for my sons second birthday. I found out from a previous experience that red icing is extremely messy and staining for a two year old so I wanted to avoid an all red cake too. This cake was super simple! I used a yellow box cake mix … Read more
I wanted to make my daughter an Elmo cake for her first birthday. I browsed online at photos of amazing cakes but never saw one that caught my eye. I saw similar cakes that just stood with an Elmo using Wilton standing bear cake pan. Then I came across a cake that had two characters.It … Read more
I made this Sesame Street cake for my son’s first birthday. It is three tiers of 2 layer cakes, 2 vanilla and 1 chocolate. I used the pre-colored fondant for the bottom and just cut it into equal sized strips. I used jumbo star sprinkles for the middle layer and elmo sugar decorations for the … Read more
I made this Sesame Street birthday cake for my son, Brian’s second birthday. I used two 10 inch round pans for the cake itself, iced with butter cream icing. The figures on the top I carved out of pre-colored fondant. My son has little figures that I used as ‘models’ along with pictures from the … Read more