Take a look at these cool homemade Dorothy Dino 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!
I make character birthday cakes for children’s birthday parties and someone asked for a Dorothy the Dino and, well, this is what I came up with. The design of the cake is a handdrawn picture which I take to the copy shop and blow up to the size I want on some nice thick cardboard … Read more
This was done for my little girls second birthday. The cake topper I made using fondant/gum paste. The arch and roses were made from gum paste and Dorothy was made from fondant. The top layer of this cake is made from a florist block and cut and covered to make it look like real cake. … Read more
I made a Dorothy the Dinosaur (Wiggles character) cake for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I baked 3 small cakes, 3 inch, 4 inch and 5 inch rounds. The cake I baked was caramel mud but you could use any firm cake. Then I assembled the cake sort of like a snowman, the largest cake at … Read more
I used an extra large rectangular baking dish with three packet cake mixes to make the sponge. I downloaded a picture of Dorothy from the Wiggles website and blew it up on the photocopier. Using cocktail sticks to keep it in place. I cut around the outline of the cake. I had to cut out … Read more
This Dorothy Dinosaur cake was for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I used a white chocolate mud cake recipe for this cake and enlarged a picture I traced from my daughter’s Wiggles book and cut out the shape of Dorothy. I used Betty Crocker’s ready made icing for the green (adding green food dye). I then … Read more
For this Dorothy the Dinosaur cake I started with a rectangular cake. I printed the image off on the computer, and placed it on to the cake. I carved around the paper to shape the cake. Then, I iced Dorothy freehand using butter cream icing.
I am possibly THE worst cook, so if I can do this Dorothy the Dinosaur Cake anyone can! I traced the picture of Dorothy from my daughter’s colouring book to use as the template. I used 2 x packets of Betty Crocker cake mixes for the cake, made the night before and refrigerated before I … Read more
This 3D Dorothy the Dinosaur Cake was a bit of a mission! I had the idea in my head, but had no idea how to bring it all together. So I trawled the internet looking for advice, and put together some of the ideas I found. The basic body shape for Dorothy was actually taken … Read more