I made this cake almost 2 feet high – it was quite amazing I must say! The kids all loved it. First, I made a chocolate cake from scratch, as the box cakes are far too crumbly and weak to support this cake (the homemade cake is really firm and heavy). I used several round … Read more
For her 10th Birthday my daughter wanted a cake with dinosaurs on it, so I made this Dinosaur Scene Birthday Cake Idea using some easy techniques to set the scene. I started out with a 12×18 inch Wilton pan baking a Devils Food Chocolate cake. For the Volcano I used a two cup Pyrex measuring … Read more
This cake was for my cousin’s fourth birthday. I did a lot of research for dinosaur birthday cakes and this is what I made. I used two 9×13 cakes and put vanilla pudding in the center. I used the Marshmallow fondant to make everything on the cake except the dinosaurs. I used decorator’s frosting for … Read more
For this dinosaur cake, I used two layers of chocolate cake baked in a 9×13 oval pan, iced in chocolate/black butter cream. The volcano was made from a mixture of cake scraps and frosting with orange butter cream lava’. The rocks were hard lumps of powder sugar airbrushed gray/black. The trees and dinosaurs were plastic.lava. … Read more
My son is dinosaur crazy and his favriote is the pterodactyl. He really wanted a pterodactyl cake for his birthday but I thought I may struggle with it so I came up with this Dinosaur Birthday Cake instead! I used a 1 liter bowl to make the body of the dinosaur, when cooled I cut … Read more
I made this dinosaur cake for my grandson’s 3rd birthday, February 3rd. I got ideas from this site. The cake is 2 9in cakes and 1 small 6in cake. I cut one of the 9in cakes in half and stood them side by side for the body and the rest of the cake was carved … Read more
For my son’s birthday I made him a Triceratops Cake. I made the cake to replicate a stuffed triceratops that we got him as a present. The cake, frosting, and fondant were all homemade. For the cake I used a simple white cake recipe, along with a simple butter cream frosting recipe. After baking and … Read more
I used cakes from this site as inspiration for this stegosaurus Dinosaur Cake. It is made from two 9×13″ cakes (Duncan Hines Yellow Cake) placed next to one another. I drew out the dinosaur on tracing paper, cut out, and placed on top of the cakes and cut out the dinosaur. The tail is shorter … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Cake Idea for my friend’s son Thomas` 7th birthday. He loves dinosaurs! First I covered an 11 inch square cake board with blue sugar paste and used some disco orange glitter dust for sparkle. This is an 8 inch Victoria sponge with jam and butter cream. I sliced the cake in … Read more
This Dinosaur cake was a request from my granddaughter for her birthday. I’ve been making cakes for them for some time now, and they get more and more elaborate every year. I think she was really trying to stump me when she asked for a ‘long neck dinosaur’. This was really fun to do, though. … Read more
For each dinosaur cake, I baked one round cake and one square cake. I cut the round cake in half and positioned each half on its cut end, using frosting to hold them together as the body. Then I cut the tail, legs and head out of the square cake and “glued” it all together … Read more
I basically just used two 9″ round cakes. The first I folded in half to make the body. The second cake I cut out a crescent for the tail. Then I cut out two u-shaped pieces (with flat bottoms) and also cut out their mirror images. This made the head which was actually two levels: … Read more