I have always loved Sesame Street. Always. Even now that they've changed the opening jingle and added such magical creatures as Abby and her flying faerie school, Rosita, and...yes, you guessed it, Elmo, among others. Though I'm still in love with what was, I can absolutely appreciate what Sesame Street is still doing in helping little ones (like my 3 year old) and their parents have some quality time together talking about the letter Q and the number 17.
My client sent me an inspiration photo for this cake and I was beyond excited. What a cute cake, what a great show, what a perfect 1st birthday party theme.
I used Americolor Super Red and Wilton Rose to get the red tint. The yellow is a mix of Wilton's golden yellow and lemon yellow. The cake itself is yellow cake, 2-10" layers and 2-6" layers with buttercream filling and frosting and fondant and gumpaste decor. The smash cake is yellow cake with buttercream frosting.
Cookie Monster, Elmo, Oscar, and Big Bird are made out of fondant, and it was SO much fun making them. The bow loops, spirals, and balloons are made out of gumpaste so they would dry nice and hard. The little border balls are fondant rolled to (approximately) the same size and randomly stuck on. The blue "ribbons" on the bottom tier are fondant rolled thin. The street sign is fondant rolled thin and cut to shape.\ with buttercream lettering and border.
I would love to explain in more detail what I did with this cake because I did truly have the best time making it, but I am just now overcoming bronchitis (hence the long wait on posting this cake I made two weeks ago!) so this will just be brief.
Happy Birthday to you, Avery!
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