I had so much fun making this Caterpillar Birthday Cake for my daughter’s first birthday. All it took was two boxes of cake mix, three containers of icing (buttercream), food coloring, 1 qt Pyrex (glass oven safe) bowl, cookie cutters, cookie dough, and multi colored pipe cleaners. The most time consuming part of making this … Read more
I decided to make this Baby Einstein Catepillar Birthday Cake after seeing pics of all the other Baby Einstein Catepillar cakes on this site. I purchased the Wilton Sports Ball pan from Michaels and used one box of cake mix for every 2 halves. I alternated with Chocolate and Yellow Cake mix, the head was … Read more
These Baby Einstein Caterpillar cakes were done for my boss’s son Hunter, for his 1st birthday in 2008. His party was the Baby Einstein theme. I used the 3-D Wilton ball pan for the larger cake and the Wilton mini ball pan for the smaller cake (smash cake). The pattern was made using the #16 … Read more
For my son’s first birthday I decided on the “Very Hungry Caterpillar” theme. I actually used this site to get an idea of how to make this cake. I purchased everything I used from Hobby Lobby. They have a great cake making department. I made two bundt cakes. Not the smooth bundt pan but the … Read more
I used a recipe for a chocolate-marble-cake and scaled it up as I needed to bake 3 cakes for the Hungry Caterpillar 1st Birthday Cake. 2 x 25cm bundt cake rings 1 x 15cm round cake tin (you could use a 10cm one, I just had a 15cm one so had to cut a bit … Read more
We did a girly bug party for my daughters 2nd birthday party. She was always talking about caterpillars so I made this cake. I used the Wilton mini egg pan. I made a homemade basic butter cake recipe. When the egg cakes were done I lined them up on a cake board, and pushed them … Read more
I used the Wilton sports ball shaped mold preparing each caterpillar cake a different flavor (and without eggs for my friends children who have egg allergies). I then bought buttercream frosting at the cake store that has such an awesome array of colors. I frosted them in the same order we made her invitations. For … Read more
On my sons 1st birthday, my wife really wanted a special birthday cake. She came up with the idea of a Baby Einstein theme and wanted the Baby Einstein caterpillar cake. I insisted on making the cake and used the caterpillar from the video as a guide. I wanted it 3 dimensional so I used … Read more
My little guy loves Baby Einstein videos so I knew it would be the theme for his first birthday. I thought the caterpillar would be the easiest character to make into a Baby Einstein cake using the Wilton Dome pan (4 to a pan). I used two boxes of cake mix and for 8 domes … Read more
I used a 14″ diameter circular shaped cake pan and 2 cake box mixes for the baby Einstein caterpillar cakes (I used white & chocolate cake mixes for a mixed cake). The cake was a hit and everybody loved the icing and caterpillar!
Our daughter, Ava, who just turned 3, asked mommy to make her a Ladybug Birthday Cake this year. I was more than happy to do that for her! I bought the Wilton ladybug cake pan, and used the Wilton cake release spray…(which worked really well, the cake didn’t stick at all). I used your standard … Read more
I started out with one 10″ Round and 8″ round cake for this ladybug cake. I froze them before I iced them, it makes it soo much easier! I always use a mock cream recipe my mother gave me for the middle. Then for the remainder I use a buttercream recipe from Wilton.com. I applied … Read more