Caterpillar Cake
When my nephew asked me to make him a special cake for his 4th birthday, I had a lot of great ideas, but my daughter was 5 weeks old, and I was having trouble making coffee in the morning. I ended up buying him a “special” cake at Costco. I regret not being able to do more, but working full time and taking care of a newborn was about all I could focus on. For my nephew’s 5th birthday, my daughter was 13 months old, so I wasn’t as overwhelmed as I was the year before. I saw a picture of this Catapillar Cake in Parents magazine and knew this would be the new “special” cake.
How to Make a Caterpillar Cake:
Project Supplies:
- Chocolate Cake Mix
- Bundt Pan
- Buttercream Frosting
- #47 Frosting Tip
- #3 Frosting Tip
- Green M&M’s
- Blue M&M’s
- Brown M&M’s
- Large Marshmallow
- Pepperidge Farm Pirouette cookies
It seemed pretty easy. I cooked a chocolate cake in a Bundt pan. Once cooled, I cut the cake in half and made the cake into an S shape. I then frosted it with green buttercream frosting. I used a 47 tip for the thicker yellow stripe and a 3 tip for the smaller dark green stripe. I used green M&Ms along the base of the caterpillar, which was a great way to hide any bottom imperfections.
For the face, I used a large marshmallow for the eyes, with a blue M&M for the eyeball. I used some of the frosting to glue the eyeball onto the marshmallow. A brown M&M was the mouth and Pepperidge Farm Pirouette cookies were the antennas with green M&Ms glued (with frosting) to the top. I really liked the way it turned out. It was also a pretty easy cake to make.
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