Sesame Street cake

This weekend I did a big Sesame Street themed cake for a 1 yr old. It is a 3 tiered cake built with 14, 10 and 6 inches round cakes. I picked 3 popular characters from Sesame Street and made cake toppers all out of marshmallow fondant. I took the colors red, blue and yellow from these 3 characters and used it for the fondants to cover the 3 tiers.

The top floor is occupied by baby Big Bird and his 'crib' is decorated with lots of stars. It was a personal request that I use lots of stars and make the cake very colorful.


Baby Cookie Monster is on the second floor, happily eating his chocolate chip cookies. This cake is decorated with colorful gifts all around.


Baby Elmo is on the first floor with his feeding bottle. I used the Sesame Street sign board to display the birthday baby's name. This tier is all about a beautiful, sunny day at Sesame Street :)


The back view of the cake showing all the decorations and the actual sesame street board.

Most people do cake toppers with gum paste (This is a mixture of sugar, starch and gelatin. It's what many of those realistic looking flowers, fruits and ribbons are made of on a wedding cake), which is technically "edible" but once it is dried, it becomes rock solid and not really "edible". So I opted to make these out of marshmallow fondant. It is a bit of a challenge doing figures out of marshmallow fondant due to its texture and the fact that working with sugar is not easy. But it is worth the time and effort to see the kids very excited as they bite off Big Bird's beak, eyes, head etc. made out of fondant. Yeah, while the adults enjoyed a piece of cake, the kids were fighting over Elmo's feeding bottle and Cookie Monster's chocolate chip cookies :) I sooo wanted them myself :D

Watch the Sesame Street cake toppers:

Kids' Special

Quick posting of a cake I made last month (yes, i have backlogs). This was for the birthday of a cute l'il one. She loves Elmo from the Sesame Street and her Mom wanted a cake with Elmo's picture on it. So I printed an edible image (Edible images are a popular decoration, printed on wafer/ rice paper using food colors) of Elmo to go in the center. Apart from Elmo, there were few other attractions for kids in this cake:

The cake has cookies in it. No, not just on the outside and not in between layers but I mixed Oreo cookies with the cake batter and so every bite had cookies in it. Now, is there a kid who doesn't love Oreos? IMO, NO.

The frosting that I used for this cake is white chocolate frosting, with strong emphasis on 'chocolate'.


Since her daughter's birthday dress had ivory and brown colors, her Mom wanted matching decorations on the cake. So I decorated the borders with ivory and brown colored M&Ms. I also arranged Oreo cookies cut in half (it was painfully time consuming and I ended up not using a lot of those since they broke into more than 2 pieces), all around the cake for extra excitement for the kids.

Conclusion: You can never go wrong with Oreo cookies, chocolate frosting and M&M's at a kid's birthday party :-)
Now, back to working on another special cake. Later!