Elmo- The Cake

I had big plans for a "3-D" birthday cake this year for Kate.  She wanted an Elmo cake but all I could find was a three dimensional teddy bear which kind of looked like Elmo with some slight rearranging.  Craig, Jeff and I started the process by making the batter.  Once we filled the mold, it didn't look like near enough batter.  It wasn't anywhere close to the top.  So, we made another cake mix and ummm, yeah, we shouldn't have added that last mix..

The three of us gathered around the little window on the oven and watched the batter just pour and pour out the top of the mold.  Finally it stopped and we ended up with quite a mess.

After chiseling the extra cake off the side we had a good shape to work with.

And operation turn teddy bear into Elmo began

 

After we all took turns decorating and shaping, we had a great finished product.  Or so we thought until after an hour, we found this....

 Jeff did some quick thinking and headed to the store to buy some new icing choices and saved Elmo!