33 Of The Most Amazing Sesame Street Cake Ideas - Agoralia Recipes (2024)

Here’s a Sesame Street-themed cake that will be a favorite with your family. Not only are they the perfect party favors, but they’re also tasty, affordable, and adorable. Even if you don’t really have any baking skills, these wonderful Cookie Monster cake jars are still manageable.

All you need is a vanilla cake mix, Oreos, candy eyeballs, blue buttercream, and chocolate chip cookies. Start building the cake by lining the bottom of the jar with some of your vanilla cake, then line it up with some Oreos and cookie crumbles.

Then top the jar with your blue buttercream, plop two candy eyeballs, and several more cookies so that it looks exactly like Cookie Monster!

Calories per serving: 1406
Total preparation time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Is your little one’s favorite character Cookie Monster? It probably is. His playful and innocent demeanor is almost always everyone’s favorite. This Sesame Street theme cake is rather a simple cake that anyone can make.

The cake consists of layers of delicious chocolate cake sponge that’s filled with chocolate ganache, blue frosting, and chocolate chip cookies.

To make things easier for you, the maker wrote that you could buy the cookies pre-made, so all you need to do is just put them in Cookie Monster’s mouth!

If you’re inspired by Cake Boss Sesame Street cake, why not try this simple one instead? It’s a cute character cake that anyone can make!

Total Preparation Time: 3 hours

Here’s a change of scenery, this time, you’re going to be learning how to create a Big Bird Sesame Street birthday cake. This is one of the most unique Sesame Street cake ideas because not everyone is focusing on this lovable, goofy yellow bird.

The base cake is made using vanilla sponge cake, but we recommend you customize this and maybe take the yellow theme further by using a pineapple cake mix instead.

After you reach a considerable height with your cake, then start working on your decorative elements. The cake is decorated with colored fondants, and you’re done with your Big Bird cake!

If you have never truly indulged before, then we strongly suggest you try making this cake. Not only does this cake feature our favorite blue monster but it’s actually made using his favorite food item – cookies.

This is a Cookie Monster cake made with cookies! Can you imagine making a cake that Cookie Monster himself will devour? You start making the base cake, a regular vanilla sponge cake with some chocolate chips.

Then make your cookies, or buy them, and line the cookies in between the layers of the cake!

Lastly, use a piping bag to create the shaggy Cookie Monster hair with blue buttercream icing. This is one of the most on-theme Sesame Street birthday cake ideas on our list!

Looking for a Cookie Monster cake that doesn’t require any fondant? Fondant can taste a bit overpowering in terms of sweetness. That’s why we decided to also include this particular cake for all of your buttercream and ganache lovers out there.

This cake is even more decadent than the previous ones because it’s made with chocolate sponge cake with chocolate chips. Then it’s layered in between with some chocolate chip dough frosting.

After that, you’ll whip up some blue Oreo frosting to make his blue exterior. Then pour out chocolate ganache from the top of the cake and line the bottom of the cake with some cookies. Lastly, stick on some open Oreos with black dots to create his eyes!

Calories per serving: 1225
Total preparation time: 55 minutes

Here’s another adorable Cookie Monster cake. Believe it or not, this cake is even simpler than the others. Because Cookie Monster’s face will be on the side instead of on top of the cake, you’ll be putting only two cookies on his side.

The base cake is also very simply made using chocolate sponge cakes and some vanilla buttercream with a sprinkling of chocolate chip cookies in the middle. Then start working with some blue buttercream frosting to create his hair.

Lastly, you’ll work with some fondant to make the details, such as his eyes and mouth. Put it all together, and as a finishing touch, get two cookies and set it to his side.

For customization, why not use pink fur instead of blue to make this a girly Sesame Street birthday cake? Try to have fun and make this cake your own.

Here’s another super simple and beginner-friendly Sesame Street cake idea that anyone can do easily at home. What’s also very helpful with this recipe is that they have two different versions of the tutorial – both written and on video.

That means you can go back and forth and use the instructions that are clearest to you. This Elmo cake can be customized by using any base cake that’s your favorite.

Then you’ll make some decorations using fondant for Elmo’s nose, eyes, and mouth. After you’re done with the fondant, put everything together onto the cake and start piping on your red buttercream.

Total preparation time: 5 hours 30 minutes

Looking for a multi-tiered and impressive-looking Sesame Street cake? Why not try this one if you have the energy and time? This is a two-tier cake made with some of the best decorative elements we’ve seen on this list.

The bottom of the cake will feature all the characters you can imagine – Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Elmo, and others. Then the second tier will have your child’s name and age inside the Sesame Street marquee.

The whole cake will also be green, just like Sesame Street’s theme color. You’ll use fondant to create elements and printouts of the characters.

If you’re a simple person, you might want to create something that’s much simpler than a cake. That’s why we included these wonderful Sesame Street-themed Cakesicles. Cakesicles look similar to ice cream; instead, they’ll be cakes inside!

Because it’s supposed to look like ice cream, one of the things you’ll need to prepare is the ice cream mold. Because you’ll be creating the chocolate mold using these ice cream-shaped silicone.

Then you’ll insert some cake crumbles inside the mold to create the filling. Lastly, create some details using colored fondant, put them all together, and you’re finished!

Was our double-character cake from before not enough to please you? Don’t worry. We also included this cute and wonderful two-tier cake featuring three different Sesame Street characters – Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and Elmo.

You might be wondering, if it’s two tiers, then where does the one character go to? Well, the bottom tier is Cookie Monster, the top tier is Big Bird, and lastly, Elmo will be featured as a topper instead of an extra tier!

The cake is made using buttercream frosting and fondant detailing for their face. You can try to customize this cake using other characters, maybe green for Oscar the Grouch? The choice is yours.

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