Take a look at these cool homemade Jurassic Scene cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. Along with the birthday cakes here, you’ll also find loads DIY birthday cake-making ideas and how-to tips to inspire your next birthday cake project. Enjoy!
This Dinosaur Scene Birthday Cake Idea was made for my sons’ combination party. They turned 3 and 4. It is a basic Jurassic landscape with river, sand pit, tar pit and volcano. My goal was to make it look like the land was “cut” and lifted, so the edges are dirt, fossils and Magma underneath … Read more
I made this cake using a combination of ideas for dinosaur cakes from this site. It is an 8×8 square. I used the spray color in green and yellow. The volcano is a regular cupcake turned upside down with a mini cupcake on top (also upside down). I found the candy rocks at the local … Read more
Up to two years ago we bought our birthday cakes until one day my husband asked, why don’t we make our own cakes? I said, what? We don’t know anything about making a cake. He said with the help of the Internet we could get some pointers. So my husband and I started to research … Read more
It was my sons 5th Birthday. He loves Dinosaurs so we decided on a Dinosaur theme. Last year for his 4th I had already made a fearsome Dinosaur birthday cake and I didn’t want to do the same this year so I was a bit stumped! It was my son who came up with the … Read more
I got my idea for dinosaur cakes from this web site. Just baked a 13″ x 9″ cake and frosted it in bright green buttercream icing. The volcano is a “baby” bundt-cake on top of a round 6″ cake, frosted in chocolate icing. The lava is melted life-savers candies (red, yellow and orange combined). The … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Scene Birthday Cake Idea for my son’s 2nd birthday. He loves dinosaurs. It is half a sheet cake, and then I baked a cake in a Pyrex bowl and 2 cupcakes stacked to make the volcano. I make my own homemade whipped cream icing (Wilton’s recipe for stable whipped cream icing) … Read more
This was a real simple dinosaur birthday cake for my son’s 2nd birthday. It is a large square cake iced in a light brown icing. I used a large tip and put the river down the middle and down one side like a waterfall. I then added a little grass with a cake tip. The … Read more
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 made this Dinosaur Theme Cake Idea for a co-worker’s son for his birthday. I took a 9 x 13 Wilton pan and coated it with Wilton Cake Release. This is the best for keeping cakes from sticking. I used half white and half chocolate cake batter. The cake was baked at 350 degrees for … Read more
Imitating everything his older brother does, my to-be-two-year-old is really into dinosaurs. After looking at lots of cakes here, I decided against the dinosaur shaped cake or to go for the landscape dinosaur birthday cake approach. The sheet cake is made in an 11×15 pan, with almost 3 boxes of cake mix. A little was … Read more
I wanted to make a dinosaur cake for my sons fifth birthday. I surfed the internet and saw some dinosaur cakes with toy dinosaurs so I decided to use his toys and make a “Dinosaur Mountain.” I baked a sheet cake and two round cakes (one 8-inch and one 6-inch). I stacked the cakes and … Read more
I started this Dinosaur Scene Cake Design with a half sheet cake base and dirty iced with green buttercream. I used Choc. fudge in one corner under the volcano (made from a sugar cone with the top cut off on top of a cupcake iced with choc. fudge icing). I used piping gel on the … Read more