I baked a doll skirt cake, one 11-inch round cake and one 6-inch round cake. The doll skirt is the body of the dinosaur (check out my dinosaur picture), cut up large round cake for tail, neck, legs and head. Crumb coat and ice with star nozzle. The eyes, nails, and mouth are fondant. The … Read more
I used half a cupcake for each leg/foot and two whole ones stacked on top of each other behind the snout area to give the dinosaur more of a head. In the past I have tried doing shaped cakes and the crumbs mixing with the icing were always a hassle. So I tried to keep … Read more
I made this Volcano Birthday Cake for my son’s 6th birthday party, and it was a huge hit. Here are the instructions: 1. Pour your cake batter into half-oval shaped oven safe bowl. I used the Pampered Chef 2 quart batter bowl. This cake is quite large, and I needed two large cake mixes to … Read more
I wanted to make a special cake for my son, Kai’s, 3rd birthday. I looked around online for inspiration for a volcano cake and ran across this site. I got ideas from a few different cakes and also from Family Fun magazine. The volcano was baked in a 2 c. Pyrex cup. I hollowed out … Read more
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 Dinosaur scene cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. I got lots of good ideas from this site. I used a 9 x 13 cake for the base. I also baked a round cake and cut it to fit in the corner of the rectangular cake to make the hill. Then I used … Read more
My son wanted a dinosaur birthday cake and this is what we came up with! Candy rocks on the hill, which we used a small pyrex bowl, a condement bowl was the best covered in dyed coconut flakes. We covered the bottom in fondant and used gold glitter for the sand. I bought a kit … Read more
This dinosaur birthday cake was made by my cousin and I for another one of our cousins (we thought we would surprise him with a birthday cake of his favorite thing— dinosaurs). It’s a simple chocolate cake and the volcano is an upside down ice cream cone that we cut the bottom out of. For … Read more
For smoke effect on volcano and dinosaur cakes, cut a hole in the top of cake and place a plastic cup inside. I purchased about 1lb. block of Dry ice (which was more than enough for grand effect at birthday sing time) and added broken up piece to a little water. You can use more … Read more
For this Dinosaur cake I drew a few sketches of the dinosaur shape that I wanted. After a few trial cakes I discovered that the best way to use the most cake was to free hand the cutting. I used a 12 by 18 inch pan and three boxed cake mixes. For best results removing … Read more
My son loves dinosaurs. He wanted a dinosaur cake and he wanted a volcano. So for his 7th birthday I made him just that. I made the bottom part with yellow pound cake and the dinosaur and volcano chocolate cake. It was very easy to make. For the dinosaur I baked a small round cake … Read more