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!
For her 10th Birthday my daughter wanted a cake with dinosaurs on it, so I made this Dinosaur Scene Birthday Cake Idea using some easy techniques to set the scene. I started out with a 12×18 inch Wilton pan baking a Devils Food Chocolate cake. For the Volcano I used a two cup Pyrex measuring … Read more
This cake was for my cousin’s fourth birthday. I did a lot of research for dinosaur birthday cakes and this is what I made. I used two 9×13 cakes and put vanilla pudding in the center. I used the Marshmallow fondant to make everything on the cake except the dinosaurs. I used decorator’s frosting for … Read more
For this dinosaur cake, I used two layers of chocolate cake baked in a 9×13 oval pan, iced in chocolate/black butter cream. The volcano was made from a mixture of cake scraps and frosting with orange butter cream lava’. The rocks were hard lumps of powder sugar airbrushed gray/black. The trees and dinosaurs were plastic.lava. … Read more
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