I made this cake for my friend’s son’s 4th birthday. This was the first time I had ever made a ‘special cake’. I had a trial run and this was the second version. I used two cakes one was an 8″/20cm deep round cake tin and the other was a deep rectangular tin 7.5″ x … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea for a family friend. Its my favorite cake I’ve EVER done. When she said Reptar I was like… “How am I supposed to do THAT?!” But I was going to figure it out. I found a coloring page online of Reptar, blew it up and printed it out … Read more
As with other dinosaur cakes, two 9in round cakes were used. One cut in half and frosted together for the body. The second cake I made up a template and used frosting to attach pieces to the body. Any remaining grey pieces were used as padding for the joins of Tail and head to the … Read more
Thanks so much for all the great pics of cakes. This dinosaur cake I did for my son on his 2nd birthday. He loved dinosaurs and he loved M&M’s. I don’t remember exactly where I found the idea. I made a sheet cake using 2 cake mixes, that way it would come out extra big … Read more
For the body of the dinosaur cake, I used a round cake cut in half and propped up side by side. The tail is a crescent shape from another round cake. The head is a heart shaped cake cut in half and done the same as the body. The frosting is butter icing piped from … Read more
Kevin wanted to use them for the eyebrows which surprisingly looked cute. I used Nestle Crunch Sticks and green Sour Strings for the palm tree. I suggest making the palm tree right before serving (sour strings break and get droopy).
My son is dinosaur crazy and his favriote is the pterodactyl. He really wanted a pterodactyl cake for his birthday but I thought I may struggle with it so I came up with this Dinosaur Birthday Cake instead! I used a 1 liter bowl to make the body of the dinosaur, when cooled I cut … Read more
I made this dinosaur cake for my grandson’s 3rd birthday, February 3rd. I got ideas from this site. The cake is 2 9in cakes and 1 small 6in cake. I cut one of the 9in cakes in half and stood them side by side for the body and the rest of the cake was carved … Read more
For my son’s birthday I made him a Triceratops Cake. I made the cake to replicate a stuffed triceratops that we got him as a present. The cake, frosting, and fondant were all homemade. For the cake I used a simple white cake recipe, along with a simple butter cream frosting recipe. After baking and … Read more
I used cakes from this site as inspiration for this stegosaurus Dinosaur Cake. It is made from two 9×13″ cakes (Duncan Hines Yellow Cake) placed next to one another. I drew out the dinosaur on tracing paper, cut out, and placed on top of the cakes and cut out the dinosaur. The tail is shorter … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Cake Idea for my friend’s son Thomas` 7th birthday. He loves dinosaurs! First I covered an 11 inch square cake board with blue sugar paste and used some disco orange glitter dust for sparkle. This is an 8 inch Victoria sponge with jam and butter cream. I sliced the cake in … Read more
This Dinosaur cake was a request from my granddaughter for her birthday. I’ve been making cakes for them for some time now, and they get more and more elaborate every year. I think she was really trying to stump me when she asked for a ‘long neck dinosaur’. This was really fun to do, though. … Read more