Elmo Birthday Cake

Elmo cakes are popular at birthdays with young children and even some older teens. This sesame street character has been baked to perfection for party pleasure many times before. On this page you can watch some video of other's Elmo cakes and also buy all the extras you need to create your own masterpiece. There are two basic methods to choose from.

For a realist impression of Elmo, that is a cake that looks like Elmo's face you will need a cake pan shaped to suit. Elmo cake pans made by Wilton can be used over and over again and shared between friends.

Your favorite cake recipe or mix can be used to prepare the cake batter. When pouring into the Elmo shaped pan pay particular attention to tapping all bubbles out of the facial features. As the cake will be turned upside down before icing you want the smoothest bottom surface possible.

Icing the cake will require red, white and black icing. Start with the red, then white and lastly follow up with black for the mouth and pupils.

The other way many choose to make an Elmo cake is using edible transfers. These are available in many styles depicting Elmo in a range of poses. These can be layered onto the top of an large flat cake you have made yourself or purchased.