Cookie Monster Birthday Cakes

Creating a Cookie Monster birthday cake for your preschooler will bring smiles to the birthday boy or girl, as well as their guests. Sesame Street and its cast of characters have been love by generations of children since it’s debut in 1969. One of the original and most recognizable characters is Cookie Monster. Who can’t recall the famous, “Me love cookies” phrase uttered by Cookie Monster himself?

There are many options for creating your very own Cookie Monster birthday cake. It can be as elaborate or as simple as you want it to be.

You can use a cake mix and canned icing. Bought on sale with coupons, this can significantly bring down the price of a Cookie Monster birthday cake. The supermarket sells blue frosting in tubes or you can color white frosting with blue tinted food dye.

Another option for making a Cookie Monster birthday cake is to keep it natural. There are many easy scratch cakes that you can make. Baking from scratch keeps out the preservatives and artificial colors and flavors found in many convenience foods. In addition, making your own icing or frosting is easy and inexpensive, too. Natural food colorings will give you the shade of blue you need to create a birthday cake that looks like Cookie Monster.

Having the right tools will make your Cookie Monster birthday cake more authentic looking. You can spread on blue icing with a spreader or you can pipe it with a decorating kit. Depending on the size and type of cake you want, you will need rectangular cake pans or round cake pans.

Wilton Cake Decorating Kits

Blue Icing

Round Baking Pan

Cupcake Pan

Rectangular Baking Pan

Measuring Tools

Measuring Cups

Rectangle cake bottoms or rectangle baking sheets lined with foil

Being an artist is not a requirement for making a birthday cake featuring Cookie Monster. Remember that your audience is preschoolers, and as long as you come close, you have hit a home run with them. You can find Cookie Monster coloring pages online to print. Trace the shape with piped icing and fill it in with blue.

You can bake a rectangular shaped cake and free hand trace Cookie Monster and ice it in blue, with black for the mouth and white for the eyes.

For a round birthday cake featuring Cookie Monster, use circle cake pans and decorate it with blue icing. For a one layer cake, use chocolate chips or black icing for the mouth and white iced Oreo cookies for the eyes. Use black icing for the pupils.

If you want to make a two layer Cookie Monster birthday cake, decorate the sides of the cake with cookies after you have applied the icing! Very thematic on two levels.

You can even make a Cookie Monster birthday cake out of a large cookie! On a round baking stone or baking sheet, make a large chocolate chip cookie or a large sugar cookie. Decorate with blue icing and use marshmallows for eyes with brown M & M’s for the pupils (these eyes can be used on cakes, too).

Cookie Monster Cake Pans

If you are afraid that a free-hand cake is out of your league, there are Cookie Monster cake pans available. It comes with directions on how to ice and decorate a Cookie Monster Birthday cake, so you will have a guide by your side.

Making a Cookie Monster birthday can be made in a variety of ways. You are only limited by your imagination