I made a sheet cake for the base (landscape) of the dinosaur cakes out of a pound cake. The volcano is made from three round cakes (yellow cake mix) each a little smaller than the next. I cut the cake at an angle from top to close bottom tapered. I used a biscuit cutter to … Read more
I used two boxed cake mixes for this Three Horn Birthday Cake. One 9 inch round, one 8 inch square, and one small pampered chef glass mixing bowl. Cut the round in half, stand it up, cut side down and stuck together with frosting. I used the mixing bowl cake for the head, and I … Read more
These Dinosaur cupcakes are really simple and fast to make. Bake cupcakes and let them completely cool. Make a ganache (1/2 cup heavy cream, 3 oz. bittersweet chocolate in small pieces – heat the cream, pour over the chocolate bits, and stir until smooth and all the chocolate is melted). While the ganache is still … Read more
I made this dinosaur cake for my son’s 4th birthday as he was mad about dinosaurs and this was this cake was the highlight of my dinosaur themed party. I was very pleased with how this turned out, although its far from perfect its very effective and its actually really simple to make. I used … Read more
After viewing this website, I got the idea to make a homemade dinosaur Stegosaurus cake for my son’s “dino” birthday party. I made two cakes. One was baked in two 9-inch rounds and the other a 9X13. The rounds were cut in half slightly off center. On the slightly bigger halves I horizontally sliced off … Read more
Time to put together this Homemade Triceratops Birthday Cake: about 3 hours (baking not included). You’ll need: 2 box cake mixes, 2 round pans, 1 square pan, 2 containers of frosting, food coloring, 1 marshmallow, 2 M&Ms, 3 ice cream cones, 2 different colors of sprinkles, cardboard, half of plastic Easter egg To make this … Read more
My daughter requested a “pink dinosaur party cake” for her birthday (why oh why did I even ask her?!) and I got my inspiration from this site for my Dinosaur Birthday Cake Design. I used a pound cake recipe and filled a round cake tin (so that the cake would be about 2 inches high … Read more
My son is obsessed with dinosaurs and when asked what kind of cake he wanted for his birthday, “dinosaur” was his response or course. I had never before sculpted a cake but used tips from this site and others and came up with this stegosaurus. I used my sons stegosaurus toy for a model and … Read more
I used two 9inch round pans. After the cakes cooled I cut one in half then flat sides down joined them together with skewer sticks. The second cake I divided into thirds crescent shaped. One for the tail and the other two I stacked on top of one another joining them with skewers. I then … Read more
My son was very inspired by these little Gormiti figurines and game cards and when I got them for his birthday and read the packaging I thought a volcano cake would go very well with them. He wanted a carrot cake so I used two packaged mixes and the Betty Crocker Bake & Fill pan … Read more
This Volcano Birthday Cake was a pretty easy cake to do. My daughter loves the episode of Backyardigans with the Volcano Sisters so I decided to do a Backyardigans Luau-themed party. I used store-bought cake mixes and made one mix in a 10″ round pan and another mix in a Wilton Wonder Mold pan that … Read more
My son wanted a volcano birthday cake for his birthday this year. When I started thinking about how I was going to make this cake, I thought it would be really neat if we could actually make it look like lava was coming out of the cake. So I came up with the idea of … Read more