For my son’s 3rd birthday he wanted a dinosaur theme. Of course, being a 3 years old, he didn’t want a regular cake or a dinosaur cake. He HAD to have a Prehistoric Volcano Cake! Soooo… I set out to make one. My son has a severe egg allergy so I had to alter the … Read more
I made this cake for my sons seventh birthday. The idea for this cake came from my son wanting a dinosaur cake or a volcano cake but couldn’t make up his mind. So I combined both! I researched other ideas for volcano cakes using this incredible site! Thanks for the ideas! Using a butter recipe … Read more
I made this Jurassic cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves dinosaurs but I wasn’t sure I could make something that even resembled a dinosaur so I made this. The base is a 12×18 cake that I leveled off. It is frosted in homemade chocolate buttercream. The volcano is 2 6×2 round cakes. Both … Read more
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
My son really wanted a dinosaur cake so checked out the dinosaur cakes on this site which gave me lots of great ideas. I used the two circle cake idea to create this cake as previously mentioned. I used a crumb coat of icing then just iced a second layer over top( much quicker than … Read more
This dinosaur cake was made by the mother of the child, I just did the decoration. His mom wanted a cake with something of the childhood of the boy. When he was a child he loved dinosaurs, and other things like every little boy, for example, skate and tennis. So I decided to make a … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake for my nephew’s third birthday using store bought cake mix and butter cream, and fondant. I made 4 sheet cakes, two side by side (the smaller ones you can buy at any $1 store), used a template I cut out of cardboard. After I got the shape I wanted … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Cake Idea for my son’s party at a local museum. I just baked a sheet cake and put blue frosting on and used marshmallow fondant to make the leaves, and made the T Rex out of rice krispie treats shaped by hand, then I put marshmallow fondant on the rice krispie … Read more
My best friend’s son’s birthday is a month after my 5 year old’s birthday. This year he wanted a T-Rex cake and they asked me to make it. So, of course I couldn’t object. I told them to google T-Rex cakes and show me what they were thinking. Little did I know this bright little … Read more
My inspiration for this Dinosaur Birthday Cake came from this website after I chose a dinosaur invitation to use for my son’s first birthday. I used a favorite 3-layer chocolate cake recipe but made 2 batches, and baked 2 thicker 9” round tins, and then another batch of the cake in different pieces as I … Read more