Monkey Cakes and Cupcakes

Wilton released the Monkey cake pan #2105-1023 in 2008.  This specialty cake pan comes with complete baking and decorating instructions.  The Monkey cake pictured below is a sample of how the finished cake will look. 

There are two very cute Monkey cupcake decorating items available for your party treats.

The first is a palm tree cupcake pick and small toy Monkey assortment.   Each order comes with 10 palm tree picks measuring approximately 2" and 10 small monkey figures which measure about 1".    The monkeys all have a different looks including holding their ears, doing somersaults & headstands, covering their eyes and sticking their tongues out.  These adorable monkeys will be the hit of the party!

The other cupcake decoration is a Monkeyin' Around cupcake topper.  These cupcake picks measure 2 1/2" tall and are sold in packs of 12 toppers.

Bananas would  make a great addition to your monkey cake or cupcakes.

You can decorate your party treats with candy bananas or fondant bananas.  The candy bananas available include Banana Heads and Sugar Bananas.

To make fondant bananas for your cake, purchase yellow fondant and then gently roll the fondant into a banana shape.

How sweet is the little monkey pictured below? 

The Fingeroos Monkey cake kit is offered by Decopac.  Each monkey cake kit includes eyes, feet, hands and ears and is made to fit on a 4" dome cake.   You can use the Wilton Mini Wonder Mold to make your cakes and then decorate. 

The mini monkey cake can be placed on top of a larger sheet cake or placed on a round cake plate and surrounded with cupcakes.  Another option would be to give each child their own personal cake.  They will love that!

Cupcake wrappers would look wonderful on your party cupcakes.

There are many Monkey themed cupcake wrappers to choose from including Mod Monkey, 1st, 2nd & 3rd birthday Monkey, Space Monkey, Island Monkey, Sock Monkey and more.

Simply bake your cupcakes and then attach the cupcake wrapper.

Paper cupcake toppers are very simple to assemble and will give your party cupcakes a fun, festive look!

To create your paper cupcake toppers, you can use a Monkey sticker such as the one pictured here.  There are many different styles available. 

How To Make a Monkey Cupcake Topper:

• Attach the sticker to a piece of coordinating colored cardstock
• Punch out using a slightly larger circle or scalloped paper punch
• Attach a toothpick or lollipop stick and insert into your frosted cupcakes

For more instructions, please visit my Cupcake Topper page.  

You can also purchase already made monkey cupcake toppers on Ebay via the link below.

A monkey face is a fairly simple to design to create using fondant.  To add a bit of fun to your fondant monkeys you can make each face feature a different expression as you see in the picture here.

Fondant colors needed for your monkey designs include ivory, brown and yellow if you are adding a banana.

Learn How To Decorate with Fondant

Monkeys are so adorable that many brides and grooms are choosing a Monkey theme wedding.

If you are having a Monkey theme wedding, there are many custom made monkey cake toppers on the market to choose from.  These wedding cake toppers are hand sculpted and one of a kind.

Some of the designs include Pucker Up!, Island Monkeys, Monkey Love and Paradise Monkey.

These monkeys would look super cute on your wedding cake!