dinosaur cake.

[witchandchips]

With the stupidity of tired mother first thing in the morning i asked ds what kind of cake he would like for his birthday tomorrow. - dinosaur cake was the answer and he was very specific about the type of dinosaur - think of a little tyranasaurus with a mohican. ideas please.

please help..

hang on

damn, could have sworn there was a tyrannosaurus on it
will it do?

thanks but was thinking more of one shaped like t-rex iyswim

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Some ideas here W&C - good luck!

I made this one for DS last year. It's from the dorland kindersly book. (The picture isn't my actual cake btw but it came out quite well)

witchandchips - DS is 4 on Friday and he too wants a dino cake!

MaureenMLove sent me a fantastic recipe for a really impressive cake, with a page of instructions but I'm not going to have time to make it

Instead, I'm making:-

choc cake

covered in choc buttercream (dino mud!)

green icing T-Rex plonked on top (have made blu-tack model today as test run, its fine!)- flat rather than standy up.

mini eggs around the edge (dino eggs!)

thanks everybody x

well by 12 last night it was finished. Could not quite get the jaw right and was more some result of a one night stand between a diplodicus and a stegasaurus than a t-rex but ds was well impressed this morning which is the main thing

well done!
can we see a pic?

yes will post one up tonight.

Hurrah

Yes, I'd like to see a pic

Making mine tomorrow - DS announced this morning taht he wants a triceratops not a T rex GAH - going to be fun trying...

candles for ruff + bits of white icing for horns.

Mamag that one on the front left of my first link would be easy to add horns to for a triceratops

Hmm yes it would, wouldn't it.

I have found this and thought I'd do green icing "flat" shaped dino with white horns?

Will it be crap?

To enhance dino theme I made sandwiches and cut them out with some cutters that a generous MN sent me, scrubbed some rocks from the garden, covered the table with them and and balanced the food plates on and amongst them, on a plastic dino tablecloth (courtesy of another MN-er!!) and placed little plastic dinos amongst the rocks (and yet another sent me some good value plastic dinos!)

that sounds fab Blu

picture posted on my profile. its not great as dp deleted the photos with the best angle so you can't see the tail

Wow!

That's FANTASTIC!

thats brilliant ! Wish me luck for making mine tonight...

thanks was actually quite proud as it is my first attempt at anything like it. Needless to say the children only ate the icing and the decorations (well how can a victoria sponge base compete with chocolate fingers, vermicilli, mini eggs et. )