Can anyone explain how to cut and arrange this dinosaur cake?

[MrsResponder]

Anyone out there who's made this or just can visualise this...how do I cut to make the dino shape?

In the cake recipe | Good Food www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/snappy-dinosaur-cake DINO CAKEcomments someone says they use some cake for the tail, instead of icing, which I'd prefer to do.

Instructions in recipe are:

Sandwich the cakes with just under ¼ of the buttercream and then all of the jam, if using. Mark the cake into six then cut out two of the wedges. Chill all of the cake in the fridge for 30 mins to firm up the crumbs, which will make icing easier.

Position the cakes on the board and, once you’re happy, use a little buttercream to anchor them. The main part of the cake will make the body of the dinosaur and the root of its tail, and the two cutout wedges will make the face.

Could anyone with better visualisation than me sketch it out? I need to see it!

TIA

I love it, can I come? Sorry, not a scooby about cake baking

Honestly, just cook a whole sheet and cut the shape out of it. You can use the leftovers for cake pops or something. Baking a cake is enough work without making a jigsaw puzzle out of it!

This is how I imagine they’ve done it (pic may take a while to show). I can see how the two wedges form the head, but can’t quite see where the blue wedge for the tail has come from as the pieces cut from the body are only about 1/3 of the cake. You could always make a couple of cupcakes with some extra batter to use for the tail?

To be fair his face is an odd shape so I’m sure you could use smaller wedges for the face and that would give you enough to at least make most of the tail. If you squish up some cake trimmings with butter icing it’s easy to mould into shape (texture of cake pops) for the pointy end of the tail.

From the photo, it looks straightforward enough. You mark the top of the cake with your knife after chilling, as though you’re going to cut it into six pieces, but only cut out two of the pieces. Those two pieces become the top and bottom jaw, the rest of the cake (the four ‘slices’ you didn’t cut up) become the body.

The tail, feet etc are all sugar paste.

The tail is all sugar paste in the recipe.

I don’t think you’re going to have enough cake for the tail - or you’d have to do part cake and part sugar paste and then buttercream over all of it. See poor diagram which may take time to load!

Thanks! Pictures are really helping.

@SnowflakeSmasher86 recipe does say tail all sugarpaste but commenter said they used cake...this looks like how.

Will give it a go!

If it's not absolutely awful, may even update thread. Heck, may update even if it is awful!

Please do 😁

Cake just out. 10 mins cooling.

Next trip to the shop for sugarpaste and pink food colouring.

The suspense!

Once it’s made, don’t destroy it by dividing it between arguing kids. Show it off, then whip out the secret tray bake for party guests and enjoy the real cake later en famille

genius!

Following for pics, hope it was a success!

DD had a brilliant Dalek cake years ago (she’s 23 now but would still love it!). Chocolate tray bake is indiscernible from cut up chocolate Dalek