I made home made chocolate cake mix from a betty crocker recipe book, i doubled the recipe size so that i would have enought to make severl cakes, I made a 9′ 12 long cake and 2 9’23 round cakes after my cakes cooled i used a bread knife to cut and shape my pieces, I had … Read more
I decided to make a dinosaur cake for my son’s 4th birthday as he LOVES dinosaur. This is my first 3D cake so I did my research on the internet (including looking at your website!) before trying to make it. Scratch Cake: I decided to use a very easy but yummy banana cake recipe. 4oz … Read more
I baked 2 white cake mixes (that I added green food coloring to), which made 48 green cupcakes for this dinosaur cake. I made sure to buy green cupcake wrappers so it would look like the rest of the green stegosaurus. After the cupcakes cooled, I arranged them on the serving tray. I frosted the … Read more
Well, I love dinosaurs. I’d be a paleontologist if I’d stayed in school, but I decided to follow my dream and try to get somewhere in writing books. This was simply my own birthday cake. It was a simple idea, really: big chocolate cake, and a royal icing dinosaur skeleton and digging tools. Now, let … Read more
As many soon to be 5 year olds do, dinosaurs become a huge focus of interest. My son is on the Autism Spectrum so his focus has been pretty intense. A little trouble with his speech meant he could not pronounce Triceratops very well so 3 horns become the description. I scoured many websites until … Read more
I made this easy Dino birthday cake from scratch for my Godson’s 4th birthday after looking through countless (and unhelpful) images on the internet. Such an easy cake to create. I used 2 simple butter-cake pkt cake mixes, and made 2 round cakes. I cut one of the round cakes in half, and sandwiched them together … Read more
These Peppa, George and Dinosaur cakes were a happy accident! I’d planned to make one big cake for my son’s birthday but the store had only small cake boards, so after a moment of panic I decided to make three smaller cakes. I baked two red velvet cakes in rectangular lasagna dish and cooled them. I Googled for … Read more
Like so many three year olds, my son HAD to have a dinosaur cake and stegosauruses were his favorite. His favorite color is green thus we have the green stegosaurus. For the body, I baked a chocolate cake in 3 round pans, let them cool, then cut them in half (into half rounds). I stood … Read more
I made this edoardosaurus-Rex Dinosaur cake for a friend’s son who was turning 8. I found ideas on the internet and ended up adapting a template for a dragon cake. I used two round 8 inch white/butter cakes. The body is one of those cakes cut in half and put together, the other cake was cut … Read more
I made this 3D Dinosaur cake for my 3 year old nephew. The inspiration came from looking at a lot of cakes online and tweaking the idea until it was what I wanted. This particular cake is a stegosaurus, which is a leaf eater, but he looked a bit cooler with pointy teeth! I used a … Read more
I made this Triceratops dinosaur cake using boxed cake mixes and refrigerated cookie dough. I used round cake pans (2-8″ 2-6″). I didn’t use all of the cake I baked but I always make more than I need…JUST IN CASE!! For the body I cut one of the 8″ cakes in half and stacked them … Read more
Bake 2 8″ or 9″ rounds for this Dinosaur cake. After they cooled I put them in the freezer briefly to make it easier to cut the shapes. On one round, slice off half an inch off the edge. From that cut edge, cut an inverted U shape so you end up with a large … Read more