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Coolest Monkey Birthday Cake Design

This Monkey Birthday Cake Design was my first cake from scratch. When my sisters told me were having a party together for my two nephews and my one niece, I jumped at the chance to start my cake making. They told me they want a vanilla cake with a chocolate pudding and sliced banana filling and the party was monkey themed.

Right away I started researching for recipes online. I baked/decorated a small cake ahead of time to test the recipes, which I suggest you do. It was good but I had to take some suggestions and adjust some ingredients to make it great (don‘t be afraid to take out/add ingredients).

The final product was amazing! Everyone at the party raved about the cake. In fact I got three orders to do other cakes that day. I did have issues; as you can see my fondant is really shiny, which is good but it also started to melt and the colors ran. I found out later, once you have worked with fondant you should NOT refrigerate it, and make sure the cake is at room temp before you fondant it. Also, I had a heavy filling with pudding and sliced bananas so I piped an order of icing (I used the same icing for “dirty icing the cake that way you can smooth down any access) around each layer of cake before I placed the filling, that really helped when coming to placing the fondant.

I hope my tips helped. I loved doing this cake and can’t wait to start my next one.


4 thoughts on “Coolest Monkey Birthday Cake Design”

  1. I put the cake in the fridge when I was done with it; though it looks nice, it was a huge mistake, the fondant started sweating after being out of the fridge only 15 mins

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  2. I made the monkeys out of fondant. I started with the bodies, I made different sized balls with the brown fondant and Judy start putting them together and molding them. Then I added all the details

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