X Eyes Elmo

[Lirim Collard]

Thesecakes look so awesome. I plan to make an Elmo and Cookie Monster cake for my granddaughters 2nd birthday. I would like to make one vanilla and one chocolate, but I noticed on your triple chocolate cake recipe that you say the cakes will sink slightly which is normal, but then I would have no extra cake to cut off for the eyes and nose. Do you have any suggestions of how to deal with this? Thanks so much.

I feel so accomplished after making this! I have a child turning 3 and one turning 4 so I also made your cookie monster cake and I feel like a real cake artist with these! Thank you for an amazing tutorial!

Hi Sally! Would like to try to make this cake gluten free. Do you know if it would work with a gluten free flour? Or do you have a GF cake recipe that I could use in place for the Elmo cake? Thank you in advance! So looking forward to trying my hand at Elmo!

I would love to make this cake for my grand daughter who is obsessed with Elmo, but I would like to use cream instead of buttercream. Could you suggest how I can stabilise the whipped cream? Some ideas I have is mixing either mascarpone or sour cream with the cream. I have also read that adding some powdered milk to the cream will do that too. What are your thoughts? Thank you.

Hi Marie, you can find our full recipe for red velvet cake here. See recipe notes there for note on making a three layer cake. Instead of the cream cheese frosting included with that recipe, you can use our Swiss meringue buttercream recipe instead. Enjoy!

4. Before you frost anything, put the frosting in your bags and then in the fridge for awhile. Then, use your hands to get it to the right temp for application. If the frosting in you bag is too melty or the frosting is running off the side of the cake, toss the frosting bag and cake in the fridge and let it firm up! Helped so much!

Hi Sally! I just finished a trial run of this cake. My son is turning 2 in a few weeks. I decided for my trial run that I would do cookie monster. 2 questions. I had trouble piping the fur. It kept getting clogged up. Any tips? Thinking maybe because I put it in the fridge during dinner and bedtime? I did let it warm up, though.

My son is turning 2 in August and is of course obsessed with Elmo. I plan on making this cake for his birthday, but would like to adjust it so one layer is vanilla and the other is chocolate. Should I split the recipe in half and mix in cocoa powder to make it chocolate? If not, do you have any suggestions? TIA!!!

Hi Sharon, what a fun idea! For a chocolate and vanilla cake, you could use the cake batter from our Zebra Cake, and instead of mixing them, just use the two batters in separate pans. This may make too much batter for two layers so be careful to only fill the pans 2/3 full. You can make a few cupcakes with the extra batter. We would love to hear how it goes!

Hi Sally,

I am hoping to make your Homemade Strawberry Cake Recipe for my son because he loves strawberries. Do you think the Strawberry cream cheese frosting for that recipe will work to decorate an Elmo cake with Elmo fur if I add red food coloring? I just want to make sure that the cream cheese frosting will hold as the buttercream frosting does.

I am going to attempt to make 3-d elmo and I have never worked with fondant before. I was wondering if the eyes and nose could be made out of candy clay or fondant or anything else that might not be too heavy and fall off. Thanks!

I'm making a 3D Elmo bust on a sheet cake for my son's 2nd birthday party on Saturday. The eyes and nose are going to be fodant... His head is RKT and it is currently sitting out to get stale and harden up. Hopefully that will allow it to hold the weight of the fondant.

I can let you know if it doesn't work out for me... thgough if you're making the head out of cake, it would be different. when I did an Elmo head trial in cake, it didn't hold up so well, so I changed the plan.

I had never made or worked with fondant before... Until I made this batch of MMF just to play with and figure out how to make Elmo's eyes and nose. It is super easy, and you can keep it FOREVER as long as you keep it wrapped up very tightly and protected from the air.

If i can do it, anybody can

I've used just fondant balls before and it worked fine. But if you want his eyes to be really big than I would cover rice krispie treats with fondant. My last elmo cake was really big (80-90 servings) and I wished I had made his eyes bigger and used RK's...

Discover how to make your own Pom-Pom Elmo and Cookie Monster with just some yarn, a pom-pom maker, some felt, and some googly eyes. It is a wonderful gift to make, and children will adore receiving them very much! I really hope that you are able to come up with some great gift ideas for the upcoming Christmas:)

Pom-Pom is the easiest craft I found to be able to make various cartoon features. All you need is to trim and assemble it with fabric glue. This time I am demonstrating how to make pom-poms for Sesame Street characters.

Just stumbled upon your site and I'm loving all of the crafts. My 19 month old LOVEs elmo and cookie monster so these are perfect. Have you ever made christmas ornaments using the pom poms? I do a tree in my little ones room and was looking for some homeade ornament ideas since I'm finding that it's tough to locate any super cute girly minature ornaments. Any advice or tips is appreciated. Thanks again for this great project and tutorial. :)

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Wha ho

Hard waitin' fer a new boat, ain't it? Anyway, since I work part-time for a canoe & kayak dealer, I got the "pro deal" price which was 20% off dealer cost, so I sprang for the full wood trim and center seat. I really would have liked bright red (ala Bill Mason's Chestnut)but since Wenonah doesn't offer the bright red and only the burgundy, I chose the green version.

What can I say.... there's nothing like a Prospector. What a boat. Great secondary stability. No wonder the design has been around for 100 years. You'll love it! Good luck. Let me know how you like your new arrival.

I used a short length of 10 mm climbing rope for the grab loops and just clip on 8' x 1/2" painters and if lining I clip on 25'+ of 3/8' line.

Fat Elmo

Wha ho; Pilgrim;

I'll see if I can photograph one and send you an e-mail. They are little pvc couplings with an outside thread on one end and a sleeve to accept a pvc conduit pipe on the other. The treaded end you screw into the hole you drilled into the hull (which should be drilled to the diameter of the "shank" of the fitting and not the outside of the thread, so as to literally 'tap' a thread into the hull) and at the sleeve end you have to grind this down to about 3/16" or so to form an exterior flange. These fitting go for about 28 cents apiece at Lowes or HD. They are used to attach pvc electrical conduit to the pvc electrical box. Very easy to install, but make sure you thread them into the hull first to cut the thread in the hull material (that will make it much easier to install after you grind), then remove it and then grind the sleeve end to the final thickness (a stationary disk sander works great here, but you can cut it with a hacksaw to somewhere close and sand it the rest of the way.). Then re-install it. Just leave a little flange on the outside hense the 3/16". There is enough of the threaded end sticking out into the interior of the hull to be able to slip a piece of vinyl tubing over the ends to completely seal the connections - just like the Tugeyes. Took me about 5 minutes apiece to grind them to shape and another 5 minutes to install them. The tough part is to drill the hull - it is a tramatic experience! I know, now I have everyone confused, but it's much easlier done than said. I did all of my four Royalex boats this way including my brand new, just-brought-it-home-5-minutes-before Wenonah Prospector. But then again, I also drilled holes in the bumpers for SS eyebolts for tie downs of my brand new Jeep the same day I brought it home from the dealer. Anyway, the couplers work and look just as well as the real Tugeyes for me and doing 4 boats it cost me less than $6.00 instead of $100 with shipping for Tugeyes. That savings bought me a new paddle (good excuse to justify the paddle)...

Fat Elmo

Our Sesame Street All Eyes Elmo Crib Bedding features a baby quilt with big, playful eyes on the front and solid color on the back. Plus, the quilt was crafted from 100% cotton to keep your little one as cozy as can be. Coordinate it with any of our Sesame Street crib fitted sheets for a complete and comfy nursery.

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This Elmo face parts embroidery design is his eyes, nose, & mouth laid out in the exact position of his face - but without the red face outline or background. You will receive 3 files - for the 4x4, 5x7, & 6x6 or larger hoops. Again - the parts are just as shown, are NOT separated individually but made as a whole in each size. Please ask any questions before purchase & certainly before stitching!

That's Kelly Heaton, a Raleigh native who gained a lot of attention in the New York art scene and is back in North Carolina as an artist-in-residence at Duke, through the computer science department and the Information Science Information Studies (ISIS) program. The conjunction between art and technology is a comfortable place for Heaton, who spent several years doing art at MIT's renowned Media Lab. In her East Campus art studio, she continues to work on projects such as "Immaterial Studio," which explores how computer-generated pixels can recreate the painterly experience.

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