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If you're in need of a cake, which focuses on the theme of Elmo, here are some great birthday cake ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

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Cake Submitted By:
Kristen - Haddam, CT
Elmo Birthday Cake

I have a boy and girl twins, both turning two, so I actually made two of these cakes. My kiddos love Sesame Street, and adore Elmo, so that is why I made this cake.

Cake-Making Tips:

I bought an Elmo cake pan. GREASE WELL with shortening and FLOUR LIBERALLY otherwise the cake will not come out of the pan. Let cake cool completely before frosting.

Start with the eyes, nose and mouth so you don't accidentally transfer color.

Use flavor-free dye to color the white frosting. For dark colors, after you add the dye, the longer it sits, the darker it gets. You don’t need to add more dye, just wait 5 or 10 minutes and it will darken.

I used a bunch of disposable pastry bags so I had all of my colors ready at the same time. I primarily used a medium star tip and small outlining tip. Add a touch of water and smooth eyes and mouth with your finger.

If you are right-handed, go left to right to fill in head so you don’t drag your sleeve in the frosting.


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Cake Submitted By:
Faith Ridge - Chicago, IL
Elmo Theme Cake

I had to bake an Elmo Cake for my son's second birthday because he was so crazy about Elmo.

I did lots of research online, but everything was so boring. I was about to give up, then one day while sitting at the dining table I looked at my son's booster seat made by The First Years. The chair is sky blue and black. I thought it would be nice to create a round cake and cover it with that shade of blue and place Elmo's head on top.

This was simply how I achieved the picture you see.

I baked a round 12x2 inch chocolate cake with heavy whipped vanilla cream in the center. I covered the side of the cake with a sky blue frosting, and the top with white vanilla frosting.

I inserted Elmo's head around the cake, leaving space for his name. Then I baked Elmo's head using an Elmo head pan from Wilton.

When the head was cool, I cut the head from the side all the way across to reduce the height so the cake wasn't too large or too high. I placed the head carefully on top of the frosted round cake avoiding the chocolate cake crumbs from messing up the top of the white frosting. It was then I started decorating.

The Elmo Cake was not only tasty, but all the kids couldn't wait to get a piece of Elmo's beautiful head. They loved it :-)


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Cake Submitted By:
Sarah Costello - Berkeley, CA
Elmo Cake

Make two round cakes. Once they are cooled, cut each cake into three layers and fill each layer with buttercream frosting with some strawberry and banana pieces on top.

Frost both cakes with buttercream and layer them with rolled out marshmallow fondant. The fondant was colored with blue and yellow food coloring.

The ABC's, clouds, and trees were colored fondant and placed on the cake with a paint brush dampened with water.

The Elmo head was molded by hand out of marshmallow fondant and placed on top of the cake.

Marshmallow cake was made out of mashmallows melted and powdered sugar mixed into it to get a dough texture.

Everything on the cake is edible except for the crayons and 4 little statues.


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Photo courtesy of: Farmer Julie

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Photo courtesy of: Ewen & Donabel

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Photo courtesy of: Andrew Eick

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Photo courtesy of: JG Clarke

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Photo courtesy of: Noquarter

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Photo courtesy of: The Watters Family

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Photo courtesy of: NC Brian

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Photo courtesy of: Diane S. Murphy

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Photo courtesy of: Art Part*Q8*

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Photo courtesy of: Toby Otter

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Photo courtesy of: Angela Shupe

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Photo courtesy of: Seelensturm

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Photo courtesy of: RB Phalen

Photo courtesy of: Wilton

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Photo courtesy of: Wilton

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