First I made some leaves and flowers from fondant. I also purchased a bag of animals. I baked a chocolate sheet cake. Then I covered it with yellow and green buttercream icing. Then I took a rectangular piece a cake and covered it with the same colour, yellow and green. And I placed it on … 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
I came up with the theme, from the theme in Max’s room, animals. I used a chocolate sheet cake 1/2, and iced it a nice green. I then drew and cut out pictures of the animals in his room and laid them on the cake and traced around them with icing. I then used a … Read more
For this dinosaur birthday cake I used a sheet cake pan for the bottom. I used the Wilton Wonder Mold pan for the volcano and cut out cake boards in the shape of palm trees for those and placed pieces of cake on them (I cut the pieces to fit the board). The lava for … Read more
I found this Wizard and Crystal Ball Cake Idea in a book by cake decorator Debbie Brown and was making it around Halloween, so thought that it was appropriate. I used the Wilton Sports ball pan to make the crystal ball, using my own yellow cake recipe and added some purple and blue food coloring … Read more
I saw a similar safari cake in the Dora section and modified it! The top is a mountain (which I should have used the cupcake to make a peak)! I bought the Mountain Rescue Diego set and some 88 cent animals! The cake is four 6in rounds on bottom, 10in round then two 6 inch … Read more
For my son’s first birthday, I planned to make him a small sugar free cake. That turned into a more elaborate dinosaur cake to go along with the dino theme of the party. We found the directions here and used my cake recipe. (The cake and frosting are both sweetened with agave nectar.) The eyes, … Read more
My son was having his 2nd birthday and was really in to dinosaurs so this is my Homemade Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea. I made a plain white cake and put chocolate icing on it. I then got the red and yellow cake letters that look like lava coming out of the ground to spell out … Read more
I got a lot of ideas for my grandson Brayden’s 2nd Handy Manny Birthday Cake from this site. Thank you to all who always share such great ideas.
My sister and me made this dinosaur cake for my son’s 4th birthday party. We used a normal chocolate cake recipe (made with real melted chocolate). My sister drew a template for the body, tail, head and legs on some greaseproof paper and used this as a guide to cut out the cake. We baked … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea by cutting a round sponge into 2 halves, and sticking them side by side with a bit of butter icing for the dinosaurs body, and cutting out the tail, legs and head from another sponge, also sticking them together with butter icing and to the board. I then … Read more
