Take a look at these cool homemade Jurassic Scene cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
I made this Dinosaur Volcano Cake at the request of my four year old nephew – Charlie – who is mad about dinosaurs. The cake itself is a three tier chocolate sponge covered in sugar fondant icing. The volcano that tops the cake is covered in chocolate fondant and I made shards from sugar paste … Read more
My son is crazy about dinosaurs right now, so for his 3rd birthday thats what we chose as the theme. I decided that I really didn’t like any of the cakes from the store for that theme, so I set out to make his dinosaur birthday cake myself this year.I started out by getting the … Read more
I got an idea for dinosaur cakes from one on your sites actually! I baked 2 round cakes, frosted the top of one and put the other on top. I frosted that and put a cupcake on the top for a volcano. After tons of frosting I decorated with orange frosting for lava. I sprayed … Read more
I used regular cupcakes to make this dinosaur island cake with one large cupcake made in a ramikan dish for the volcano. I arranged the cupcakes into an island shape with the tallest ramikan cupcake for the volcano. I separated store bought white frosting and added green food coloring for the grassy areas and made … Read more
My grandson LOVES dinosaurs! For his 5th birthday I made (what I think was) a super Dinosaur birthday cake! I used rice krispies to make a volcano. I used a doll dress cake pan to get the shape. The lava is melted Jolly Rancher candies. I shaped them by putting them on tin foil that … Read more
To make this dinosaur birthday cake I started with a 11 X 17 cake and frosted it in brown buttercream frosting. I made the volcano out of a chocolate cake in a Pyrex bowl and placed that on top of the sheet cake and also frosted that with brown buttercream. For the lava, I used … Read more
This is just a regular sheet cake with the volcano baked in a Pyrex two-cup measuring cup. The thing that really adds to the cake is the candy rocks. The kids were really excited to eat rocks.
2 days before the party I made up 4 oven baking trays about 16” by 12” with Victoria sponge and then a 14” round, 9” round, 8” round, 7” round and a 1.5 pint pudding basin with chocolate sponge cake with chocolate chips. The following day I laid out the Victoria sponge for the land … Read more
My step son had a very large Dinosaur Scene Birthday Cake for his birthday, but his cousins had missed the party, so for a family party I made a mini version. I baked a chocolate 9×13, cut off one corner and stood it up to be a volcano. We dug out the middle a bit … Read more
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I started with boxed cake mixes, store bought whipped fudge icing, and homemade buttercream for the Jurassic Cake. I baked each cake in two 9″ cake pans. I then alternated vanilla and chocolate cake using three cake halves per layer. So, the cake was 3 tiers, and each tier consisted of cake, buttercream, cake, fudge, … Read more
My son had a dinosaur theme for his birthday and I was very proud of how well the Dinosaur Scene cake came out. I used a Wilton cake pan for the volcano. It was a small size and seemed perfect for what I needed it for. I made a 12×18 sheet cake. I frosted the … Read more