The main cake is chocolate cake. I baked it in a metal mixing bowl so I didn’t have to sculpt it. Once baked, I cut in through the middle and put some butter cream icing on, then over the top. Covered in fondant and sculpted the neck (which is held with spaghetti pasta). I was … Read more
my son is turning 4 this summer and is really into dinosaurs. I was trying to figure out a theme for his party and SUPRISE, he said dinosaurs mom, so dinosaurs it is. I have never really decorated a cake before other than putting a can of icing on it and I decided that since … Read more
My sons second birthday party had a dinosaur theme and I wanted to keep to the theme. I decided on a decorated number 2-cake shape and called it Jurassic Park. This was a major crowd pleaser, was so easy to make, an absolute pleasure to decorate and watch my son and other children enjoy. I … 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 Jurassic cake for my son’s 3rd birthday. He loves dinosaurs but I wasn’t sure I could make something that even resembled a dinosaur so I made this. The base is a 12×18 cake that I leveled off. It is frosted in homemade chocolate buttercream. The volcano is 2 6×2 round cakes. Both … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Volcano Cake at the request of my four year old nephew – Charlie – who is mad about dinosaurs. The cake itself is a three tier chocolate sponge covered in sugar fondant icing. The volcano that tops the cake is covered in chocolate fondant and I made shards from sugar paste … Read more
My son is crazy about dinosaurs right now, so for his 3rd birthday thats what we chose as the theme. I decided that I really didn’t like any of the cakes from the store for that theme, so I set out to make his dinosaur birthday cake myself this year.I started out by getting the … Read more
I got an idea for dinosaur cakes from one on your sites actually! I baked 2 round cakes, frosted the top of one and put the other on top. I frosted that and put a cupcake on the top for a volcano. After tons of frosting I decorated with orange frosting for lava. I sprayed … Read more