Take the square and cut it in half, then cut one of the halves in half on the diagonal/triangle. Place one each for the head and tail. Take the remaining half of the square and make 4 legs.I iced the cake with chocolate icing. For the plates and spikes, I used chocolate covered graham cookies … Read more
Bake two 9″ round cakes. Cut one cake in equal half and place the flat sides on the cake board. Sandwich them together. Shape the tail and head and legs from the other cake and ice them accordingly. I use a few shades of green to add interest to the body. Bits and pieces of … Read more
For my daughters third birthday she requested an Orange Triceratops Cake and that’s what she got! It wasn’t an easy birthday cake to make but with a little help this is what I made. For the cake I used two devil food cake mixes, 30oz of canned pumpkin and one cup of water, no eggs … Read more
This centerpiece is dedicated to my grandson Jayce who turned 5. He wanted a monster truck cake, but was having a mad scientist party. To accommodate his wishes I made each piece to reference his party. The erupting volcano cake is made out of two huge batches of homemade rice crisp’s molded to form the … Read more
To make my volcano cake I used red velvet cake mixture, made three cakes different sizes so they would stack like a snowman almost and red and orange frosting. My cake is really cool because it is formed like a volcano made into a cake, its not just any cake with a volcano on it. … Read more
I made this homemade Dinosaur Land birthday cake for my son’s 5th birthday party. I actually came to this site to do research on the type of look I wanted before I started it. I used some of the ideas and tips others had included with their cakes. The “cake” portion of this cake was … Read more
For my son’s 6th birhtday we did a dinosaur birthday party, so I did two cakes, one rectangle pan and one I baked in a glass measuring bowl (for the volcano). I used chocolate fondant and painted it for it with food coloring inside the fondant and with a paint brush outside to look like … Read more
I got the dinosaur birthday cake idea from this website! I had to scale it down much smaller. I used a 9×13 pan for the base and 2 cupcakes for the volcano.After icing the volcano cake with the chocolate icing, refrigerate it, so red icing will just run over it smoothly. I put red icing … Read more
My son wanted a dinosaur party this year, so I came up with this Dinosaur cake. I searched the net looking at various pictures of other cakes, and gathered ideas to put together with my own. I baked one regular chocolate box-mix cake in 9″ round pans. When the cake was cool, I cut one … Read more
My son is a big fan of dinosaurs so for his 7th birthday party I decided to try and make him this homemade Megasaurus cake. I used Wilton’s Megasaurus cake tin. I had to bake 2 cakes to make it high enough to look good and I was scared of slicing through the middle of … Read more
My son is obsessed with dinosaurs and wanted a dinosaur cake for his 3rd birthday. As he isn’t fond of icing I decided to use chocolate instead to resemble a tar pit full of dinosaurs. I made a rectangular chocolate cake which I then covered in chocolate ganache – dark and milk chocolate melted with … Read more
This Dinosaur Birthday Cake Idea is very exciting for me, because it’s my first “cake for hire” for someone else! They saw a picture of a cake on this site and asked if I could do it. I was nervous but gave it a shot and it turned out great! This cake, believe it or … Read more