Cookie Monster Birthday Cake

When your little cousin wants a Cookie Monster cake for her third birthday you start baking!

My Mom dug out an old cookie monster pan and I helped her mix up a chocolate cake.  You can make any flavor you like but I say nothing beats a chocolate birthday cake!  If you want to get even more creative you can make an oval-shaped cake and cut it out in the shape of cookie monster’s face.  For simplicity’s sake we stuck with the pan!

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My favorite part was mixing up the icing with blue food coloring in the Kitchen Aid mixer.  My hands were blue for a few days!

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Why stick to icing when Cookie Monster can sport a chef’s hat made out of marshmallows?

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And, of course any good monster needs a nice big mouth!

Applying the icing was the messy part!  We iced the cake using WIlton’s grass/fur tip #233 which mimics Cookie’s fur.

We gave Cookie googly eyes made out of giant marshmallows to stay in theme.

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Before working on his hands, we applied Cookie’s most important accessory, a giant chocolate chip cookie to eat!  Mom then moved Cookie off of the waxed paper and placed him on top of a half sheet cake that she made the day before.  You need to make sure that there is enough cake for everyone to enjoy!

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Finishing touches included applying gel for the eyes, mini cookies spread around the cake and the birthday girl’s name made out of candy!

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The finished masterpiece:

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I’d say bubbly Miss Olivia was happy with the outcome!

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