A Sesame "SWEET" Surprise

A SESAME "SWEET" SURPRISE

A very magical 2nd birthday celebration for a very lucky little boy...

It started with Sebastian's love of some of Sesame Street's all-time favorites: Elmo & Cookie Monster.

To my preliminary sketches with two options for this fun-filled birthday.

Little Sebastian's birthday was going to be Option #2 but we decided to tailor it some...keep reading & you'll see how.

I started by laying it out with some help with the Cookie Monster himself...

It was time to bake the chocolate cake and cover it with Ghirardelli white chocolate buttercream.

Then cover it with fondant and fondant alphabets & numbers using fondant cutouts that look like mini cookie cutters. Attach it to the fondant cake and add on some festive candy stars. Here's a picture of the back of the cake before I brushed the powdered sugar off.

Baked a sheet chocolate chip cookie for the bottom base, covered the middle layer with green fondant, and set the cake...it's starting to come together.

Now the part I've been eagerly waiting for...the ELMO!!!! I hand pipped him and that's probably the most time consuming part. My hand & fingers hurt after all that pipping. But Alas! He's done! Complete with the best parts of Elmo, his orange nose and fondant eyes with chocolate chip in the middle. The following picture is after I set Elmo on the alphabets cake I made earlier with the little Sebastian street sign.

While Elmo + Cake was chilling in the fridge it was time to bake & decorate the cupcakes. We have...

ELMO:

COOKIE MONSTER:

COUNT DRACULA:

It was time to deliver the boxed cupcakes, Elmo, & company to Sebi's big Sesame Street party!

My husband snuck in a picture of me in action, pipping on some last minute touch-ups to Elmo while we get setup:

He is so huggable and cute!

Here's Elmo & Co. ready at Sebi's party table.

And finally, the cupcake flavors were a fun Taro (purple yam) Count Dracula cupcakes.

Rich chocolate fudge Cookie Monsters with Oreo cookie halves.

And red velvet Elmo cupcakes. I distinguished the table Cookie Monsters from the Elmos by using Chips Ahoy cookie halves.

It was a super duper fun birthday with plenty of sweet & huggable Sesame Street characters. Needless to say, Sebastian is one lucky 2 year old!