My daughter’s 1st birthday cake had to be an Elmo Birthday Cake, since she cheered every time he appeared on TV. I have never made a character cake before, and I just followed a picture I had of him. I used Wilson frosting red, black, white, and orange. Next, I used the star tip for his … Read more
For every birthday my daughter picks a cartoon or movie character and we do a theme party upon her choice. For her eighth birthday she was so in love with Bear in the Blue House (and I have to admit that I was nuts about this cuddly bear too!!) so I decided to do a … Read more
I made this Cookie Monster cake for my son’s second birthday party. It was my very first attempt at decorating! I didn’t want to spend the money on a pan (and couldn’t find cookie monster anyway) so I just baked a sheet cake and iced it white then traced an outline of cookie monster on … Read more
We were asked to make one of those cool animated Elmo cakes for our friends daughter’s second birthday. The theme is Elmo so we were going to try to make a cake to match his TV show, Elmo’s World. We decided to steer away from eating Elmo since it may have traumatized the two year … Read more
Ever since Julia was 4 months old she has been mesmerized by the cute characters of “In the Night Garden”. And so who else but Iggle Piggle would do for her first birthday cake? I scoured the internet searching for ideas on a Homemade Iggle Piggle Birthday Cake, but all seemed too involved with cutting … Read more
I made this Kermit cake in a 9 x 13 pan and let it cool. After it cooled I iced it with chocolate icing. I printed a picture of Kermit that I found online. I used the picture as a guide to draw Kermit into the icing on the cake with a toothpick. Then I … Read more
This was for my daughter’s first birthday. This was my first ever cake. I found prints of Sesame Street Big Bird and Elmo and enlarged them on the computer. I used piping gel to make the outline on wax paper and inverted the design on the butter cream frosted cake. I then filled in the … Read more
This cake was traced from a stuffed animal Grover for the outline. The icing is Wilton’s whipping cream. The face and tummy were both cut and rounded to give the three-dimensional shape.
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
This is an Elmo cake that was made for a little boys 1st Birthday! I used the Wilton Elmo shaped pan. This was the first time that I had used a shaped pan and I love it! It made decorating so easy! I made sure to grease and flour just the bottom of the pan. … Read more