For the 1st birthday of my best friend's daughter, I made a series of Sesame Street Baked goods. I used the
Wilton Elmo Cake pan and it worked wonderfully. The instructions were easy to follow for the frosting as well. I used the star tip to pipe the red.
The finished Elmo cake. I think my hands will be stained red from the frosting for months. And I am sure all the kids will be walking around with red faces for the rest of the party!
Because kids (okay and me too) LOVE Cupcakes, I made cupcakes that looked like some of the different sesame street characters. Oreos worked perfectly for the mouths of oscar the grouch, ernie, and cookie monster. I used scissors to cut jumbo marshmallows in half and used these as eyes for cookie, big bird, and oscar and piped a little black gel icing as the irises. For Ernie, I used candy corn that I pushed in and piped black on for the eyes. I frosted Ernie in orange with a smooth finish and used red peanut m&ms for his nose and black gel for a little hair. For Oscar and Cookie fur I used
Wilton tip #233. This part was possibly the most fun. You can kind of go a little wild just piping their fur...its very free form. Make sure you put a little fur over the oreo mouth for cookie!
For Big Bird, I used
Wilton tip #102 and started at the outside and did a complete circle of feathers around the edge and then began another circle of feathers moving into the center. It actually amazed me how this tip worked out...looking at the tip you would never guess that it would end up looking like the right shape for big bird but it did! Candy corn then made the perfect beak!
These were definitely worth the effort. They were honestly easier to make then I had anticipated. They came out looking great but the best part was the look on the kids faces when they dove into the cupcakes!
A good friend recently made a long anticipated move to NYC. His girlfriend decided that this was the perfect opportunity for a surprise "Welcome to NYC...finally" party. She knew immediately that the theme was going to be all things New York. When I found this out, I instantly knew I wanted to make some sort of cupcakes that fit in this theme because hello...a party isn't a party until there are cupcakes! But, what can you take thats NYC themed that can be transformed from a circular canvas? After racking my brain for hours, I was riding the subway and looked up from the crossword puzzle only to realize the answer was staring me right in the face (literally I was looking right at the round 4 train logo that I see everyday). Aha! I frosted the cupcake surfaces as smoothly as I could and then used the flat part of a butter knife to smooth out and flatten the piped on number. I found that putting a little confectioner's sugar on the knife helped smooth it down without it sticking to the knife.
