My son helped me make this Volcano Dirt Cake for his 8th birthday. We baked a chocolate bundt cake to use as a base and froze it after we removed it from the pan. This makes it easier to “carve”. We followed a dirt cake recipe we got from the web, added more cookies and … Read more
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This was a Volcano cake for my son’s 4th birthday. He was so excited about his dino cake. I made the base of the cake out of an 11x15x2 cake pan which I made 2 cakes into 4 layers. I then made the volcano out of a Wilton doll cake pan which I cut a … Read more
This homemade Dinosaur Land Volcano cake was pretty easy to make and my son loved it! I started out by baking 2 boxes of cake mix, one in an angel food cake pan and the other in a regular round cake pan. After letting them cool I placed the round cake on a baking sheet … Read more
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My 4 year old son wanted a volcano cake with dinosaurs for his birthday. So, I stacked several cakes together to make it big enough. I used 10 inch, 9 inch, and 8 inch cheesecake pans and 2 Pyrex bowls to make the main volcano pyramid. I then cut away the hard edges to make … Read more
First I made the base of the Dinosaur Volcano Cake with a 9×13 cake pan and the volcano with a Pyrex bowl, glass and oven safe. After the cakes had cooled I cut the cakes to make them flat, then I placed the rectangle base on the platter and the half sphere on top. I … Read more
I made this cake almost 2 feet high – it was quite amazing I must say! The kids all loved it. First, I made a chocolate cake from scratch, as the box cakes are far too crumbly and weak to support this cake (the homemade cake is really firm and heavy). I used several round … Read more
The volcano cake was for 50th Birthday. We were looking to do Tropical Theme, what better than a Volcano Island. I used different sizes of round yellow cake, 5 layers. For frosting I used butter cream. Cake crumbs for racks and gel for lava.
My son was requesting a homemade volcano cake, I’m not sure why or where he even got the idea. He just says “I like volcano’s”. So that is what I made. We used two round tier cakes for the base and the volcano was made using the Wilton’s Barbie doll base pan. The lava is … Read more
For my sons 3rd birthday we had a tiki/luau theme so I made this volcano cake. I used a bundt pan and a basic cake pan and just “shaped” the cake into the form I needed. I used red velvet cake and store bought icing. I put a small ramekin in the top, and put … Read more
I was planning a ‘Star Wars’ party for my son’s 7th birthday, and was scratching my head for an easy, yet attractive idea for a cake. I saw a picture of a Mustafar Volcano toy, and realized that it would be easy to build a cake to resemble the volcano. My dearest Mom volunteered for … Read more