I wanted to use the baseball cake pan but I could not find it. So I used a tin cupcake pan and rounded it out with a baseball before I poured in the batter. I took each half and cut the top flat and frosted the flat sides and wrapped them in plastic wrap. I … Read more
My nephew was having a bug theme for his first birthday. I created a homemade caterpillar cake for the main cake and a bumblebee cake for the smash cake (in another post). This was my first attempt at 3D cake, and I highly recommend it for its general ease and creative options. I used the … Read more
I used a small Pyrex bowl to make all the bumps of the Caterpillar Birthday Cake. The bowls held about 2 cups of cake batter. The head was a little bigger, I used the scraps I cut off from the others to mold and shape the head. I used 4 cups of buttercream icing, with … Read more
This Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cake is the first cake I’ve ever made on request for someone other than friends or family. This baby Einstein caterpillar cake was made for 1 year old Cole. I made it with 3 different cake mixes (white, chocolate, strawberry) where each box of standard, buy at the grocery store, cake … Read more
I saw many Baby Einstein Caterpillar Cakes on this site but I decided to give it my own perfectionist twist for my son’s first birthday! This cake was made with 5 different cake mixes using the Wilton sports ball cake pan. Each ball was covered with fondant. I rubbed water on each ball to give … Read more
We decided to make a ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ birthday cake for my son’s first birthday, and it turned out wonderfully! I have no experience in making or icing cakes, but this wasn’t too difficult (time consuming yes – it took about 2 hours to ice!, but not difficult). We used two bundt tins to make … Read more
This Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake was really fun to make. I used a 10″ cake tin and this to was double up to be able to fill with homemade butter cream and strawberry jam. It was left in the fridge and straightened all the sides to look perfect (hopefully). The cake itself was quite difficult … Read more
This cake was made for my daughter’s first birthday party. I made a total of 6 cakes using the small glass Pyrex bowl. I colored the icing using Wilton icing color. After decorating the cake, I decorated the board with flowers and butterflies to go with our “theme”. I used sugar cookies to put on … Read more
This is the Baby Einstein Caterpillar cake I made for my son Connors first birthday. I got the idea off this site after I had decided on a Baby Einstein theme, but could not find a cake pan. Thank you for the idea! I used the Wilton Sports Ball pan and tip 16 to create … Read more
My sister-in-law made this Baby Einstein caterpillar cake with large double layer round wedding cakes. They used small mini rounds for the caterpillar with primary colors and made the small mini cake for him to smash. Then her daughter used fondant and made the turtle duck and ladybug. This Baby Einstein caterpillar cake came out … Read more
My daughter was obsessed with Baby Einstein and so I wanted her to have a Baby Einstein cake. I searched the internet and found this site. My brother followed the instructions from the #2 cake already submitted here by Heather W. from TX. As a bonus he used the leftover batter and made 5 cupcakes … Read more
My son has an addiction with the Baby Einstein DVDs since he was three months old! So of course when his first birthday was coming up I knew what I was doing. Thing is I couldn’t find a Baby Einstein caterpillar cake I thought was cute enough to do. So I purchased all the items … Read more