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
This dinosaur cake was done for my son on his third birthday, I did this completely by hand, I used the fondant, for the the bone structure, painting it with icing food coloring to give it definition. I used regular white icing, store bought, but made it thicker by adding powdered sugar, this was made … Read more
For this Dino cake I used two 9″ round cakes. I also used a template that can be found at: http://www.bettycrocker.com/NR/rdonlyres/302061DE-E198-46D1-AAAB-CF7D64007848/0/dinosaur_cake_instruction.pdf , if this link doesn’t work go to Betty Crocker.com, type Dinosaur Cake in the search box on the upper right-hand side and it should be the first cake that pops up, you will … Read more