I had a request for a volcano cake for my sister’s best friend’s son for his 10th birthday. He is really into science and his mom thought a volcano cake would be a great surprise for him. I baked chocolate cakes in two different sized metal bowls. I then stacked the cakes on top of … Read more
Well, I love dinosaurs. I’d be a paleontologist if I’d stayed in school, but I decided to follow my dream and try to get somewhere in writing books. This was simply my own birthday cake. It was a simple idea, really: big chocolate cake, and a royal icing dinosaur skeleton and digging tools. Now, let … Read more
As many soon to be 5 year olds do, dinosaurs become a huge focus of interest. My son is on the Autism Spectrum so his focus has been pretty intense. A little trouble with his speech meant he could not pronounce Triceratops very well so 3 horns become the description. I scoured many websites until … Read more
I made this easy Dino birthday cake from scratch for my Godson’s 4th birthday after looking through countless (and unhelpful) images on the internet. Such an easy cake to create. I used 2 simple butter-cake pkt cake mixes, and made 2 round cakes. I cut one of the round cakes in half, and sandwiched them together … Read more
I had known for a while that my son had wanted a dinosaur party, and after scouring the internet (and this website) for decent dinosaur/Jurassic cakes, I decided that the volcano cake seemed the “easiest”. I received one of those giant cupcake molds from Baker’s Secret. It is a two-piece mold and you are able to bake a cake, one … Read more
These Peppa, George and Dinosaur cakes were a happy accident! I’d planned to make one big cake for my son’s birthday but the store had only small cake boards, so after a moment of panic I decided to make three smaller cakes. I baked two red velvet cakes in rectangular lasagna dish and cooled them. I Googled for … Read more
Like so many three year olds, my son HAD to have a dinosaur cake and stegosauruses were his favorite. His favorite color is green thus we have the green stegosaurus. For the body, I baked a chocolate cake in 3 round pans, let them cool, then cut them in half (into half rounds). I stood … Read more
I started out this Jurassic scene birthday cake by baking 2 large square cakes. One was chocolate and one yellow to add some more options (Dunkin Hines, I think, is the best). Iced it with creamy chocolate icing. Then, for the volcano I purchased a Barbie doll cake (the kind where the cake is the Barbie’s … Read more
I made this edoardosaurus-Rex Dinosaur cake for a friend’s son who was turning 8. I found ideas on the internet and ended up adapting a template for a dragon cake. I used two round 8 inch white/butter cakes. The body is one of those cakes cut in half and put together, the other cake was cut … Read more
I made this 3D Dinosaur cake for my 3 year old nephew. The inspiration came from looking at a lot of cakes online and tweaking the idea until it was what I wanted. This particular cake is a stegosaurus, which is a leaf eater, but he looked a bit cooler with pointy teeth! I used a … Read more
I made this homemade Jurassic birthday cake for my stepdaughter’s 7th birthday. She loves dinosaurs and soccer so I combined them. I used two 13×9 cakes for the land mass and cut the sides off making it look jagged. For the volcano I used 3 mixing bowls. I took the center part out of my … Read more
My grandson is big into dinosaurs, and I made the mistake of showing him hundreds of pics, nothing was quite right, so I just made up this Homemade 4th Birthday Dinosaur and Volcano Cake as I went along. I used 2 boxed chocolate fudge cake mixes, baked in a turkey roaster pan. Made a double … Read more