Easy Monkey Ideas

Decorating By BittysMommy Updated 20 Sep 2006 , 4:31pm by ME2

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BittysMommy Posted 20 Sep 2006 , 3:37pm
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Please help. DD bday is Saturday and I have been so busy with life that I haven't planned her cake. She is having a monkey theme. I don't have a ton of time and am not a professional but would love some ideas. I took the first two Wilton classes so I know limited amounts of decorating.

Any and all ideas are appreciated. I will have 26 guests. 9 being children. Thanks again!

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modthyrth Posted 20 Sep 2006 , 4:04pm
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I made cookies for my friend's monkey themed baby shower (see my photos). I piped the monkeys in royal icing, but you could easily do them in buttercream, as well. And it would be easy to adapt to a cake design.

Ace of cakes did little modeling chocolate sock monkeys for a cake recently--they were fabulous! I only wish they'd given a closer look on the show! Here's a link to a picture by Charm City Cakes with the sock monkeys. http://www.charmcitycakes.com/images/gallery/kids_15.jpg

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Katskakes Posted 20 Sep 2006 , 4:21pm
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I would just do a round cake w/filling and decorate it like a monkey. I think it's as simple as fast as it can get. i think i've seen a few Monkey faces here.


http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=Monkey&cat=0&pos=23&search=Monkey

for more monkey cakes:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&cat=0&meta=search&search=Monkey&page=1&sort=dd

HTH

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ME2 Posted 20 Sep 2006 , 4:31pm
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I used the Wilton mini bear pan and covered it with fondant to make it look like a monkey. You can see it in my pics.

You could also use the regular bear pan and just ice it as a monkey. You can see that one in my Pooh cake. Pooh was made with the bear pan, not the Pooh pan. That one was done with icing instead of fondant.

The mini pan would look cute as a cake topper (maybe do 3 of them for "See no evil, Hear no evil and Speak no evil?"). The big one fits nicely on a 2-layer 10" round.

BTW, Hobby Lobby has a 40% off coupon so the little pan would be around $6 or so and the big one would be around $12.

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