After browsing through hundreds of beautiful childrens birthday cake ideas on this site I decided on the caterpillar for my grandsons first birthday party. I used the Wilton Sports Ball cake pan for the large caterpillar. I couldn’t find the mini-ball cake so for the smaller caterpillar (‘smash cake’ as someone else called it) I … Read more
I got my Baby Einstein caterpillar cake idea from this website. I wanted to do a baby Einstein theme and saw the caterpillar cakes. I made a mini version using small Pyrex bowls to cook a boxed cake mix. I mixed up vanilla frosting with food coloring and covered each mini cake in a different … Read more
This was for my sons first birthday. We came up with our cake ideas based solely on the ideas and tips from this website for Baby Einstein caterpillar cakes. We ended up using five boxes of cake mix in various flavors. The ground was two sheet cakes, a box of chocolate each and regular store … Read more
I decided cupcakes was the best way to go with my daughter’s first birthday cake. She has a picture in her room of a caterpillar that we used as a guide when coloring the icing for the cupcakes. The head of the caterpillar is a marble cake mix baked in an 8″ round pan. The … Read more
My daughter has a spring birthday so for her 1st birthday I made this Caterpillar Birthday Cake. We did a garden theme, but after checking out this website I just had to try a caterpillar cake. This cake wasn’t hard, but because it was my first and there was a little bit of a learning … Read more
I made this 2nd Birthday Caterpillar Cake for my daughter! It was an absolute hit. The cake was super easy to do. I bought the sports ball cake pan, and used 4 store cake mixes. I used 4 different cake mixes to create more fun. I kept them in halves so I had 8 total … Read more
I love to be crafty and creative but lets face it, it’s also great to copy someone else’s idea. Like many others on this site, I went out and bought Wilton’s ball cake pan. I used half a ball for each section of the body. I used 3 boxes of cake mix, the darker colored … Read more
I was asked to make The Very Hungry Caterpillar cake for someone I work with. It needed to feed quite a few people so I decided to make a sheet cake. For the decorations I used Royal Icing (recipe on Wilton.com). The dots were made using the icing, in a piping bag with a #12 … Read more
For my daughter’s first birthday I decided that I wanted to make a cake based on one of her favourite books. After narrowing it down to ones that wouldn’t take me ten years and a thousand dollars to do justice to, I settled on Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake. I made the body out of … Read more
My son loved the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. So, for his first birthday my husband and I wanted to make an amazing cake using the theme. We made two bunt cakes. For the body, we cut one bunt cake in half and turned one half to make the body. We used the second … Read more
I made this childrens birthday cake for my little daycare girls first birthday. It is made using a bunt cake. You cut the cake in half and then the one half into fourths. You stand the cake up on its ends and add one fourth on each side. It looks best frosted in stripes. You … Read more
