Monkey Cake

by Sherrie Mason
(Oakboro, NC)

I made this Monkey Cake for my daughter's teacher. She loves monkeys and is having her first baby in April.

I really wanted her baby shower cake to be special. So I designed a cake with a jungle theme feel, but kept it a little more modern with the dots in the colors of her baby shower.

I used my own white cake recipe. The cake was iced and filled with buttercream, and I used marshmallow fondant to cover it.

This was the second time I had ever used fondant on a cake. And I must say the MM fondant was much easier to work with than the store bought fondant. It tasted better too!!

The cake is made using a 10" round pan and a 14" round pan. I made the monkeys in the middle by covering the Wilton globe pillar set with MM fondant. I also made the dots around the cake, monkey, bananas, and palm tree on the top of the cake from MM fondant.

I made the palm tree a week ahead of time. The actual baking and decorating took approximately 15 hours to complete.

I have been making and decorating cakes since I was 13. My friends still laugh that I got my first stand-up Kitchen aid when I was 13, because I burned up my Mom's hand mixer making cakes!

From the editor:
What an adorable Monkey Cake. It's perfect for any jungle themed event, whether it's a baby shower, birthday party or just because.

And don't forget to pick up some cute, co-ordinating party supplies

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Jul 15, 2010
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starstarstarstarstar 		PLEASE HELP ME!!!
by: DeAira

I was wondering how i could get u to make my daughter a monkey cake she love MONKEY!!!!!! She turning 3 Aug 16 put the party is Aug 14 um if u could email me that would be great deaira_t_b@yahoo.com thanks again and the cake it so CUTE!!!
May 04, 2010
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starstarstarstarstar 		CUTE
by: Ashley

This is the cutest cake ever!!!
Feb 16, 2010
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starstarstarstar 		Palm tree
by: Kimbosue

Could you share your palm tree directions? I am making a similar cake for a baby shower and don't want to use pretzel sticks for the trunks.
Nov 07, 2009
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starstarstarstarstar 		cute monkeys
by: sandy


this is sooo cute! great monkeys. how did you do it so that the fondant in the bake does not bunch up?
Mar 24, 2009
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starstarstarstarstar 		Cool cake
by: Anonymous

What an awesome cake!!

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