My nephew celebrated his first birthday over the weekend! Of course, I had to offer to make a cake for the occasion. When my cousin told me he loves Elmo, I was so happy to get the chance to redeem myself as I made one last year for a friend and the cake was a disaster for me.
This turned out exactly as planned, to a point, thankfully. This was a standard white cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. For some crazy reason, I thought royal icing would be a great idea to make Elmo's fur. I should've stuck to buttercream frosting and a #234 pastry tip. Also, when I carved out the shape of Elmo's face/head, because I used an 8-inch square cake, I had these straight sides. So, I fixed that by adding some cake spackle - a mixture of cake and buttercream frosting. After the crumb coat, you can't even tell.
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