Music on Sesame Street Block

Lately, the Sesame Street theme has been a popular request. I was very eager and excited to make my version of the Topsy Turvy cake. Since I vow not to make the exact same cake twice, I created a new twist to the Sesame Street theme. I always remembered fondly of the piano episodes as a child & wanted to work it into the cake. The parents of this 2 year old being very artistic parents, I wanted to emphasize an artistic/musical theme while making a cake cohesive with a child's view of the Sesame Street cartoon. The result...

A Close-up on the "Sesame Street"...

The entire 4-tiered cake swirling up to the very top made this exciting cake fun to look at and kept the eye moving as if you were walking through the streets yourself with these characters.

Now for the flavors: the Bodhi party requested a special strawberry cake with strawberry cream-cheese filling in the top layers. I wanted to incorporate the fresh ingredient of luscious strawberries so I whipped them into both the cake batter and the cream-cheese buttercream. The very bottom layers were a rich chocolate cake with chocolate-fudge buttercream...it had a generous serving of chocolate so it was super rich and dark. The layer above that was the same chocolate cake with raspberry buttercream. This 4-tiered cake has something in it for everyone.

This is definitely a storybook cake that was a treat for the eye with all the vibrant colors and many characters to be discovered around each swirl. It even had a fire hydrant and a postal drop box - complete with the memories of the cartoon.

I really loved how Bodhi's name popped on top of the cake as candles for the birthday boy. I also loved how the sky above the townhouses were a nice light blue that tied into the piano layer. It was such a fun cake to design and create and in the end it was a cohesive-themed cake that came alive by telling a story of celebration.

With each of the characters playing a different instrument, I really felt like I created a home for them. They look like they are right where they're suppose to be all along!

Until next time ~ keep creating, imagining, & dreaming...

Cheers and happy holidays!