Elmo Birthday Cake

Sweep the clouds away and create a fun birthday surprise for your kids with this Elmo Cake. Easy to decorate, this Sesame Street cake is simple enough for even the most novice of decorators to make. Best of all, the Sesame Street Elmo Cake Pan outlines all of Elmo's features for you, so decorating this cute character cake is just as easy as coloring in a coloring book!

Prep2 hr
Total Time3 hr 30 min
Skill LevelBeginner

Amount12

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Instructions

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Bake Cake. Prepare cake following recipe instructions. Bake and cook cake following pan instructions.
Tint Icing. Tint ½ cup icing black, tint ¼ cup orange, and tint 1½ cup red using color combinations provided. Reserve remaining ¾ cup icing white.
Combine Red-Red and Christmas Red icing colors to get red color shown.
Decorate Cake. Using spatula and white icing, ice eyes smooth.
Using spatula and black icing, ice inside of mouth smooth.
Using spatula and orange icing, ice nose smooth.
Using spatula and red icing, ice Elmo face, leaving swirls in icing
Prepare decorating bag with tip 3 and black icing. Pipe smile on Elmo.