My son was requesting a homemade volcano cake, I’m not sure why or where he even got the idea. He just says “I like volcano’s”. So that is what I made. We used two round tier cakes for the base and the volcano was made using the Wilton’s Barbie doll base pan. The lava is … Read more
For my sons 3rd birthday we had a tiki/luau theme so I made this volcano cake. I used a bundt pan and a basic cake pan and just “shaped” the cake into the form I needed. I used red velvet cake and store bought icing. I put a small ramekin in the top, and put … Read more
This Dinosaur Scene Birthday Cake Idea was made for my sons’ combination party. They turned 3 and 4. It is a basic Jurassic landscape with river, sand pit, tar pit and volcano. My goal was to make it look like the land was “cut” and lifted, so the edges are dirt, fossils and Magma underneath … Read more
I made this cake using a combination of ideas for dinosaur cakes from this site. It is an 8×8 square. I used the spray color in green and yellow. The volcano is a regular cupcake turned upside down with a mini cupcake on top (also upside down). I found the candy rocks at the local … Read more
This dinosaur cake was made from two 7 inch chocolate sponge cakes. I chopped two thirds off both cakes for the main body and then used the leftover cake to shape tail, head and legs. Then I made up some thick butter icing and with green food colouring to do the covering and provide some … Read more
I started this Dinosaur cake with 2 round cakes. The center of the cake is 1 circle cut in two and the halves are sandwiched in a upright position. The pieces are placed together to create the cake. I had trouble keeping the head up so it had to balance on a small cup. The … Read more
I was asked by a friend to create a 4th Birthday Dinosaur Cake for her daughter and as I looked around I came across my old stand up teddy bear pan and as we all know many things can be created from this. So I chopped of his ears created a marshmallow tail and decorated … Read more
A friend approached me to make a standing T-Rex birthday cake for her son’s 3rd birthday. At first I declined because I had never made a 3-D cake of that size. I looked on-line and didn’t see many pictures for ideas. Finally, she pressed me hard enough and I thought about it long enough that … Read more
We created this Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea for our friend’s son Ashton’s second birthday party. We started with the large wood base and attached the wooden dinosaur base to that. We then used Rice Krispy treats to form the head and tail. The body of the dinosaur is chocolate cake. We then smoothed everything out … Read more
My 3 year old boy decided that this year he wanted a dinosaur cake. I searched high and low for step-by-step instructions on how to make one but nothing was quite right. So I took inspiration from here and there and this Dinosaur Cake was the result. “The Steg” is my first ever attempt at … Read more
I then mixed up a batch of butter cream icing to decorate it. I mixed lighter colors so as not to make this dinosaur look mean or scary. I outlined the cake with a Wilton tip #16 and filled in using tip#16 with appropriate colors. For his party, we had several activities such as dino-bowling, … Read more
Then cut shapes from a square cake for head, tail and legs. I used green ready roll icing and decorated with individual Toblerone pieces for the spikes, large chocolate buttons for spots and Cadburys crisps for ruff.s crisps for ruff.