Curious George Cake Recipe | In The Kitchen With Matt (2024)

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Calling all Curious George fans. If you love that adorable monkey or maybe your kids do, make this awesome Curious George cake for their next birthday, or just because!

After seeing my lego man cake a friend of mine asked me if I could come up with a Curious George cake for her son who was turning 2 years old in a few days. He was obsessed with Curious George. I thought sure, why not it would be fun to make him a cute Curious George cake.

The process is fairly simple and you follow the same techniques as I show in the lego man cake and the Spiderman cake. You don’t need a ton of experience working with fondant either. A novice fondant worker should be able to do this. If I can do it, you can do it. Let’s get baking and decorating!

Step 1: Gather the ingredients

In order to make a homemade Curious George cake you need several ingredients and items, all of which are pretty easy to find:

• Cake mix or homemade cake – Along with the ingredients to make it. I have several homemade cakes here on my blog.
• Frosting – Use storebought or homemade buttercream frosting either vanilla or chocolate.
• White Fondant – Use storebought or use homemade marshmallow fondant.
• Black Fondant
• Browing Icing Color – Or you can also buy brown and flesh-colored fondant as well.

The fondant and icing color can be found online or at places like Walmart.

Tools

• Curious George Face (from the internet)
• 10inch cake pan (could use a smaller or larger one)
• Cake Board (I covered my with foil)
• Pizza roller
• Knife
• Cake Knife
• Cake spatula
• Fondant Smoother
• Toothpicks
• Scissors
• Small round cookie cutter, or Tablespoon/Teaspoon
• Rolling pin or Fondant Rolling Pin

Step 2: How to make a Curious George cake

Begin by wrapping a cake board in foil or parchment paper if you like. Or you can use the cake board plain or not worry about a board and just use a cake pedestal.

Bake the cake in a 10-inch round cake pan according to the instructions on the box for a cake mix or any number of homemade cakes. Allow the cake to cool completely and then level it off. If you wrap a damp cake strip around the cake pan it won’t dome as much when it bakes.

While the cake is cooling down go online and find an image of Curious George’s face that you like. Take the image and paste it onto to a word document and scale it to fit the image. I use landscape mode for the paper. You may find one that is already a perfect size and you can just print it out.

Cut the stencil out from the paper with scissors. Place the Curious George face stencil on the cake and then cut around it with a knife.

You may wind up with one of the ears, not on the cake. If so, you can make one with the excess cake trimmings and glue it on with frosting on the side of the cake. Save the leftover cake scraps, you can just eat them, or make cake pops or cakesicles with them.

You will be left with a rough shape of his head. Now, cover the cake with frosting. You can use store-bought or a homemade frosting. This will add flavor to the cake, as well as act like glue for the fondant.

Time to move onto the fondant decorating. This part will take the majority of your time, but it won’t take too long.

Step 2: Working with the fondant

Take a large chunk of the white fondant and knead it in your hands until it is soft. Then add in a few drops of the brown icing color and knead that into the fondant which will change the color to a nice brown color which will be the outer part of Curious George’s face.

Now roll the fondant out into a large circle with a rolling pin and then lay it on top of the cake. Smooth it out so it forms all around the cake. You can use your hands or a handy fondant smoother tool.

Then trim the excess fondant off from the cake with a pizza roller, fondant cutter, or knife. Just ball the scraps of leftover fondant up.

Take another smaller chunk of fondant and add only one or two drops of the icing color, which will color it a much lighter brown or tan color. Again, knead the color in. Roll that part as well, it should be about 1/8th inch thick or so.

Cut the face part out of the stencil and place it on the rolled out tan fondant. Cut around the stencil leaving you with a face shape. Place that on top of the cake how you want it.

These are the two main base colors for the Curious George cake head and face. All you need to do down are the details to create the rest of his face.

Cut out the ears from the stencil and lay those on top of the tan fondant. Cut them out with a knife and then place the ears on the cake.

Now cut the eyes out of the face stencil. Place the stencil on the cake so you know where the eyes are supposed to go.

Roll out some white fondant and then place the eye stencils on it, and cut around it. Or if you have a small round cookie cutter or round tablespoon or something that will work as well.

Place the white eyes on the cake. If they have trouble sticking, use a tiny bit of water. The water will act as glue, so the fondant will stick better to the other fondant.

Next do the exact same thing with the pupils. Roll out some black fondant, then cut out a round pupil and place those on top of the white eyes.

The only thing that is left now is do put on the mouth and nose and dark outlines. Using the stencil as a guide, roll out long thin pieces of black fondant and then put them in place. Again, use a bit of water as glue if needed. Just use a small paint brush or a toothpick to put the water on.

And there you go! The amazing Curious George cake is done and ready to be used however you like. The kids will go crazy over this cake.

How long does the Curious George Cake last?

If you cover the cake with plastic wrap or foil or store it in an airtight container, it will last 5 to 7 days, although it will taste the freshest before then.

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10 Comments

1. Trang

   September 29, 2020 at 10:23 am·Reply

   
   So easy to recreate! My son is obsessed with Curious George. We have all the books, even a Curious George Build A Bear and backpack!

   • Matt Taylor

     September 29, 2020 at 3:18 pm·Reply

     That is awesome, Trang!! 🙂

2. April

   September 29, 2020 at 8:58 am·Reply

   
   This is adorable!

   • Matt Taylor

     September 29, 2020 at 3:18 pm·Reply

     Thank you so much, April! 🙂

3. Katie

   September 29, 2020 at 8:42 am·Reply

   
   This looks fantastic! Can’t wait to try it.

   • Matt Taylor

     September 29, 2020 at 3:17 pm·Reply

     Thank you, Katie! 🙂

4. zain ahmed

   August 22, 2020 at 9:23 am·Reply

   very nice and delicious recipe are we use the cheese cream or butter cream both for frosting???

   • Matt Taylor

     August 23, 2020 at 3:49 pm·Reply

     Thank you! You can use whatever kind of frosting you want to go over the cake before adding the fondant. 🙂

5. Adrianne Mortensen

   August 17, 2020 at 3:03 pm·Reply

   So cute!! I also appreciate that you have an option to jump to the recipe– actually the first time I’ve seen that done! Hopefully it catches on, lol!

   • Matt Taylor

     August 17, 2020 at 3:08 pm·Reply

     Thank you, Adrianne! 🙂 There is other information that is valuable, and the pictures of the steps are shown, but yes that “jump to recipe” is a nice feature, haha. 🙂

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