If you want to celebrate your child’s birthday and host a birthday that is themed around his favorite Sesame Street friend, Elmo cakes are a true delight on any birthday occasion! Whether you are looking to make Elmo birthday cakes or you are just looking for a fun way to spend the afternoon with your youngster, you can make a perfect cake yourself with ease when you get an Elmo cake pan!
You can let your children whip up elmo cakes, or you can teach your child how to make an elmo cake, with the help of an adorable Elmo cake pan! The pan is sometimes sold with a matching, decorative, Elmo candle too, thereby presenting you with a complete birthday Elmo cake-making kit. Forget complicated Elmo cake designs! With the Elmo cake pan, you can bake perfect Elmo-themed birthday cakes at ease!
When making an Elmo cake if you become concerned about your cake decorating abilities, you can use a simple Elmo cake decorating kit which supplies you with edible cake decals, candies, and crayon shaped birthday candles to dress up the standard square, circular, or rectangular cake. To simplify things even further, you can opt for purchasing an Elmo cake figurine which you can simply place on top of any cake that you might create.
We had hardly got out of the streets of Bangor before I began to be exhilarated by the sight of the wild fir and spruce tops, and those of other primitive evergreens, peering through the mist in the horizon. It was like the sight and odor of cake to a schoolboy.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
If you prefer to make a smaller Elmo cake. or cupcakes you can do that too. There are reusable Elmo cupcake rings which also double as superb party favors that can be inserted into the top of all of the cakes that you bake. You can also make great-looking Elmo cookies with the Elmo cake rings, and the tiny plastic rings are a favored treat among children attending an Elmo-themed birthday party. Figurines are sold solo or in sets so you have a lot of decorative options whenever you set out to make an Elmo-themed cake.
You might even want to add on the entire gang of Sesame Street, depending upon the cake you plan to make. Consider the "Wilton Sesame Street Party Toppers": a collection four cake figurines which includes Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo, and Zoe acting as a marching band would. Finally, do not forget to get additional Elmo party favors; you can buy Elmo paper plates to serve your cakes on as well.
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Some days your hat’s off to the full-time mothers for being able to endure the relentless routine and incessant policing seven days a week instead of two. But on other days, merely the image of this woman crafting a brontosaurus out of sugar paste and sheet cake for her two-year-old’s birthday drives a stake through your heart.
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
Wilson Snyder is a freelance writer. Learn more about Elmo cakes at Elmo Toys and Products.