Dinosaur Cake

After I had been to the baby shower, people really liked the cake and thought they would test my skills by asking me to do their son's birthday cake - he would like a Dinosaur!!

Clearly a novice in this area I got my thinking cap on and had a look on Pinterest for something I felt might be achievable.

I found a design made out of two round cakes, one cut in half as the body and the other into shapes to create the feet, tail and head - this looked like a winner so I set about creating myself a template for the major parts and then excess cake could be used as infill as required.

I made the template out of greaseproof paper and labels the pieces then attached them back to the cake with cocktail sticks - this worked for me but i'm sure there is a more professional way of doing this!

I marbled the cake with green colouring and once baked we could get to work.

I cut all the cake pieces and placed them all on the empty board to check it was going to resemble a dinosaur like shape and once I was happy I did a buttercream base over the whole board, then sandwiched the main body together with buttercream and jam - then placed all the cakes on the board.


Before I started to cover the main body - I did a brown sugar and chocolate sprinkles base to look a bit like mud on the ground.

I then did a crumb coat over the whole body before starting to pipe green icing over the whole cake.

I used a star nozzle and piped all over the body in sections.

I had pre made some spines for the back of the dinosaur in orange and I used some green lustre dust with alcohol to add a bit of interest / design to these to make them more spine like.


I added them onto the dinosaurs back once all the piping was done, and voila we were complete.

The little boy was very pleased as was his mum but I don't want to take on too many of these challenges!