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A Dinosaur Cake is the perfect choice if you’re little one is a dinosaur fanatic. This super cute kids birthday cake will be a roaring success when he comes to life at your next birthday party.
It’s the details that make all the difference on this novelty birthday cake. The Tootsie Roll ® eyeballs and nostrils, the chocolate claws and the cake crumb & brown sugar ‘dirt’ add some edible realism to your friendly dinosaur.
Add some extra fun to this Dinosaur Cake by using one floavor for the body and one for the legs, head and tail. This way, when you’re carving your dinosaur you can offer light or dark meat for your guests. The kids will think it’s hilarious!
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ingredients
kids birthday cake - dinosaur cake
- 1 x 8” round cake for white meat - Classic Yellow Cake is great
- 2 x 6” bowl cakes for dark meat - Classic Moist Chocolate Cake is perfect
- Filling - Root Beer Float Buttercream is always a favorite
- 1 batch of buttercream
- sky blue, yellow and brown gel food color
- 2 Tootsie Rolls ® for the eyeballs and nostrils
- 2 Lady Finger cookies for the arms
- Green candy melts
- White candy melts
- Blue candy color
- a couple of candy makers mini queeze bottles
- Cake scraps from leveling the layers, crumbled in a food processor
- Dark brown sugar
- disposable decorating bags
or Ziploc sandwhich bags
- cake decorating skewer
or small bamboo stake
- Plate or board to hold your finished cake
baking
kids birthday cake - dinosaur cake
- bake the cakes and cool completely.
- trim about 2” off the narrow end of one of the bowl cakes.
- level the cakes and split the bowl cakes into three layers horizontally.
- to build the body, start with the bowl cake that you just trimmed a piece from. Starting with the smaller end, secure the first layer to a 10” cake circle
with a dollop of frosting to stop it from sliding around.
- use double-sided tape to attach the cake round to the board you’re using to hold the finished cake (try to have at least 6” clearance on all sides).
- continue stacking and filling the layers of the two bowl cakes (first one complete bowl right side up, second one upside down on top of the other).
- add a crumb coat - this is a very thin coat of un-tinted buttercream you apply to 'set' the crumbs.
- Your body cake should now look like this.
- refrigerate the cake(s) for at least one hour.
Cut Out the body
kids birthday cake - dinosaur cake
- take the round cake and cut out the pieces, as shown in the diagram below.
- take the tail section and bevel the edges a little with a knife to soften the ‘squareness’.
- join tail section to the body with frosting.
- take the leg section and slice in half as if you were layering a cake, to create two identical shapes.
- attach one on either side of the body, using frosting to secure.
- take the smaller head section and split horizontally, as if layering, to create two identical shapes.
- using frosting, secure a smaller head shape on either side of the larger one, creating a half football shape with one flat end.
- push a cake decorating skewer through the body vertically, with about 3” extending from the top of the body.
- push the head on to the skewer to finish your basic dinosaur shape.
- crumb coat the head, legs and tail.
- refrigerate the cake for an hour or so.
Make The Teeth, Claws and Back Fins
kids birthday cake - dinosaur cake
- melt about 1/2 cup of white candy melts in a microwave safe bowl for 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each interval, until completely melted.
- pour the melted chocolate into one of the squeeze bottles and snip off the very tip of the nozzle.
- on a piece of wax or parchment paper, pipe out about 12 or so small triangles for the teeth and about 10 small ‘c’ shapes for the claws.
- melt some green candy melts.
- pipe out about 25 x 3/4 “ high triangle shapes for the back fins.
- paint the two lady finger cookies with some of your melted green candy melts – these will be the arms.
- let set for about 20 minutes.
Assembly
kids birthday cake - dinosaur cake
- divide the buttercream in to three bowls.
- Leave one white and tint the others medium green and brown.
- frost the entire cake in green frosting.
- using a a disposable decorating bag or a Ziploc bag with a small hole snipped in one corner and any remaining green frosting, pipe two large half circles on the top sides of the head to form the eyes.
- pipe three 2” long sausages at the base of each leg to form the feet.
- use the green frosting to attach one lady finger cookie on either side of the body to form arms.
- using some white frosting, attach three claws to each arm and each foot and some teeth in the mouth area.
- using some brown frosting, and a disposable decorating bag or a Ziploc bag with a small hole snipped in one corner, pipe some horizontal stripes on the dinosaur’s back, tummy and legs.
- using the white frosting, pipe two large beads of frosting inside the eye sockets you created with the green frosting.
- cut a Tootsie Roll ® in half and roll each half between your hands (like play dough) until you form a ball.
- cut another Tootsie Roll ® in quarters and make two smaller ball shapes.
- put one larger ball in each eye (in the white bead of frosting you just piped), as shown, and use the two smaller balls to make nostrils for your dinosaur.
- using the green frosting, attach the back fins in a row down the center of the dinosaurs back.
- mix the cake crumbs and some brown sugar and sprinkle all around your dinosaur, as shown, to complete.
You're done! Now go get a well deserved cup of coffee and sit back for a few minutes to admire your handiwork. Remember to take a picture while your masterpiece still looks perfect.
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