My son asked for a Stegosaurus Birthday Cake for his third birthday. This is my first time making a 3D cake. I saw some cakes on this site for inspiration. The body is made from putting two halves of a round cake together. For the head, I cut 1/3 of a round cake and then … Read more
My daughter was very into dinosaurs by age 3 so I wanted to make her a special birthday cake. I looked on this website for some ideas and decided to try this Dinosaur Birthday Cake. In a few of the other postings are actual template illustrations of what size and shape cake pans to use … Read more
I made this Homemade Stegosaurus Birthday Cake for my daughter’s third birthday. She loves dinosaurs and happened to be particularly into Stegosauruses at the time. I had a great time with this cake and best of all, it was a big hit with her. Support for the Cake: Because of the size of the cake, … Read more
I made this Dinosaur Birthday Cake for my son’s 5th Birthday – he loved it! I baked 2 round cakes and cut the pieces up to form the body (cut one cake in half and put those 2 pieces on their sides to form the middle and the other cake cut the tail piece and … Read more
Its best if you use white cake in these molds because they come out better and even better if you reduce the amount of oil in your cake to one tablespoon instead of however much it says on the box! To make buttercream frosting: 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup shortening 1 tblspn vanilla 4 cups … Read more
This Dinosaur Cake was made for my sons 3rd birthday. I made the cake from two 8″ round cake pans. One cake you cut a small half circle out; this is the body of the cake. For the second cake you cut and take one angled piece for the tail and line it up to … Read more
We used fluorescent food coloring to create a bright green and purple dinosaur. After she completed the icing on the cake using a star tip she went back and used icing to form the feet along with the purple toe nails. It took us a while to make the dinosaur cake but it was well … Read more
This dinosaur cake was done for my son on his third birthday, I did this completely by hand, I used the fondant, for the the bone structure, painting it with icing food coloring to give it definition. I used regular white icing, store bought, but made it thicker by adding powdered sugar, this was made … Read more
For this Dino cake I used two 9″ round cakes. I also used a template that can be found at: http://www.bettycrocker.com/NR/rdonlyres/302061DE-E198-46D1-AAAB-CF7D64007848/0/dinosaur_cake_instruction.pdf , if this link doesn’t work go to Betty Crocker.com, type Dinosaur Cake in the search box on the upper right-hand side and it should be the first cake that pops up, you will … Read more
I helped my friend make this Dinosaur cake for her son’s fourth birthday. We used three 3″ x 9″ round sponges. To make the body, we cut one sponge in half, stuck it together with butter icing and jam and then stood it on its side. With the second sponge, we made two crescent shapes … Read more
My daughter requested a dinosaur-themed birthday party for her third birthday, including a Homemade Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea. The catch was that she wanted a pink and purple dinosaur party! I modified the dinosaur head, because I thought the original looked more like an iguana, and it was hard to prop the head so it … Read more
I found this Dino Dig site cake idea in the March ’09 Family Fun magazine, and I just HAD to try it! I think it turned out great, and I so hope my son wants a dinosaur birthday party next so I can make it again! I made a chocolate sheet cake and covered it … Read more