Make a Dinosaur Cake - lots of ideas
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We made a Triceratops cake when my older son turned 3. Although this dinosaur cake was very well received, we thought we could do better this year, and looked at lots of dinosaur cakes. We've put together a selection of our favorite homemade dinosaur cake recipes and examples. We've included lots of easy options, plenty of medium skill ideas and a few for the over-achievers in the audience (you know who you are ;-)
This year we chose a Volcano Cake with fondant dinosaurs which delighted our four year old.
Updated 20 July 2011
We made a Triceratops cake when my older son turned 3. Although this dinosaur cake was very well received, we thought we could do better this year, and looked at lots of dinosaur cakes. We've put together a selection of our favorite homemade dinosaur cake recipes and examples. We've included lots of easy options, plenty of medium skill ideas and a few for the over-achievers in the audience (you know who you are ;-)
This year we chose a Volcano Cake with fondant dinosaurs which delighted our four year old.
Updated 20 July 2011
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T-Rex Dinosaur Cake Pan
T-Rex is always one of the most popular dinosaurs. This shaped cake tin is a great option for a T-Rex Birthday Cake.
Triceratops Cake for our son's third birthday
This picture is of our older son's 3rd birthday cake. No it's not very good is it! But he loved it. For a third birthday dinosaur cake it just had to be Triceratops.Our Triceratops dinosaur cake was made from loaf-shaped cakes cut into shape then covered with green fondant with details made from marzipan, including the dinosaur eggs. It's finished with chocolate balls for eyes and white chocolate drops for claws.
The best dinosaur cakes we've found
Dinosaur cakes to make
So what makes a good dinosaur-themed cake? If you search for dinosaur cakes you get a lot of cutesy dinosaurs that aren't identifiable as any particular species of dinosaur. That just won't pass muster in our house! If we produced a cake that was half brachiosaurus, half stegosaurus, with brightly-colored spots, the likely response would be "what kind of dinosaur is that supposed to be?". A bit of cartoon or comic effect is fine, but to get onto our list, a dinosaur cake must be clearly identifiable. We like homemade dinosaur cakes best, even if they're not quite perfect. A bit of cheating is fine though, part of our Triceratops was a shop bought cake - it needed to be solid.
These are the best dinosaur cakes that we've found.
These are the best dinosaur cakes that we've found.
- How to make a T-Rex (cake) at Buttercream
- Oh wow. This one's good - a 3D T-Rex. Photos of it being made so you can see how it was done. We like this one.
- Volcano Cake
- You can have great fun adding dinosaur cake toppers to the scene or making marzipan or fondant dinosaurs to sit at the foot of the volcano. And the dry ice is a genius touch.
- Triceratops cake
- Some similarity with our Triceratops cake though we hadn't seen this one at the time.
- How to Make a Dinosaur Cake
- A 2D T-Rex this time. Brightly colored and very appealing. Tyrannosaurus Rex seems to be the most popular dinosaur for kids so I'm sure this would be a hit.
- Dinosaur Egg
- This is well worth a look. A beautiful dinosaur egg cake.
- Parasaurolophus Cake
- Parasaurolophus is a favorite in our house. This includes complete instructions with cake recipe and template.
- Dinosaur Birthday Cupcakes
- A whole set of fondant dinosaur cupcakes with volcano and fossil ones too. Very nicely done.
- Dinosaur Dig Site Cake
- Dinosaur bones on a chocolate cake for the aspiring paleontologist.
- JurassRick Park
- This is a collection of dinosaur cakes actually made for an adult's party so some ingredients may not be appropriate ... But some great ideas! We particularly like the bugs in 'amber' and the edible palm trees - they'd make great accessories for any dinosaur cake.
- 3D Dinosaur Bones Pancake
- OK, this one isn't a cake, but it is a pan-cake. And we had to include it.
Dinosaur Cake Decorating Ideas
Volcano Cake with Fondant Dinosaurs
For his fourth birthday our son asked for a Volcano Cake with dinosaurs. Excellent choice. We'd found some great dinosaur cakes as inspiration and thought we could have a go.It was very much a dinosaur and volcano themed birthday as his main present was the Playmobil Volcano with Triceratops set.
New: Volcano Cake Recipe and Full Instructions
Here's what we did:
Make a round sponge cake with a few tablespoons of cocoa powder and baked it.
Make a chocolate cake with the same recipe plus a few tablespoons of milk in a pyrex bowl and cooked it for 5 mins in the microwave.
Put the dome shaped cake on top of the flat one and cut away at an angle to get a good volcano shape. Carved a crater in the top.
Melted a large bar of milk cooking chocolate and poured in over the volcano then let it set in the fridge.
Took green, yellow and black fondant and made a T-Rex, Parasaurolophus, Dimitrodon, Triceratops, Stegosaurus and Pterodactyl. (These were much easier than I expected, my partner was very skeptical but ultimately impressed, I didn't spend much time and didn't go for perfection, but they had to be identifiable by the boys and they definitely passed that test!)
Made lava by rolling out strips of red fondant.
Use remaining fondant to create a muddy grassy green to cover the cake board and make a rock to hold the number 4 birthday candle.
We were pretty pleased with the result. It took under an hour to make including baking the cakes - decorating was a joint effort between Mum and Dad.
This Volcano Cake from Sandra Lee has full instructions including adding dry ice.
(We didn't go for dry ice this time, the kids were impressed enough as it was, we'll save that effect for the future!)
Wilton Primary Colors Fondant, Multi Pack
Amazon Price: $5.09 (as of 05/31/2012)
We used a mixed pack of colored fondant to create the dinosaurs and lava. You could make your own, but we left things to the last minute! The fondant was great to work with. I just kneaded it a little and then worked with it like playdough. I worked on a silicone mat so I didn't need to use anything to stop the fondant getting sticky and I washed and dried my hands regularly.
Are you planning a Dinosaur Birthday Party?
Easy Option 1: Buy a dinosaur cake pan
Dinosaur cake tin, pan, mold
You can get great results by using a dinosaur cake pan, tin or mold with a simple sponge cake recipe. If your artistic skills aren't up to much this might be a good option - at least everyone will know it's supposed to be a dinosaur!
This cake pan reminds us of Buddy from dinosaur train.
The Ultimate Dinosaur Cake
We love the 3d Dinosaur Birthday Cake at Instructables.com. Beyond our skills, but it was the inspiration for our Triceratops cake. It's a Stegosaurus, a very good Stegosaurus. Go on, take a look, we'll still be here.
Easy Option 2: Dinosaur Cake Toppers
Dinosaur Skeleton Cake Topper
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A dinosaur cake topper can be really impressive! You can make your own cake, or put the dinosaur cake topper on a store bought cake.
Dinosaur Cake making video
From Howdini
We're not quite sure what kind of dinosaur this is! So it doesn't really meet our criteria. But it's great to watch it being made and you could adapt it so it looks like a Brachiosaurus.
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Easy Option 3: Dinosaur Cupcakes
A nice pile of dinosaur cupcakes can be displayed to great effect.
Dinosaur Cake Photos
Dinosaur Cake Pictures
There are some really creative people out there who have made some brilliant dinosaur cakes. Puts our efforts to shame! Get inspired. It's worth checking out google images for dinosaur cake too.
Easy Option 4: Dinosaur Edible Photo Cake Topper
We've used this option before to great effect! You can get a personalized edible cake topper printed and put it on a cake of your choice. Very cool. You can go for an option that already includes a dinosaur theme, or a completely custom photo cake with a photo of your own. Perhaps you have a photo of your child with a dinosaur from a recent theme park visit?
TV Dinosaur Cakes: Dino Dan, Dinosaur Train, Diego
- 4th Birthday Cake: Dinosaur Train
- A round cake decorated with the dinosaur train around the outside and Buddy and Tiny sitting on top. We love the train track detail around the base. Great for Dinosaur Train fans.
- Diego and Dinosaurs
- A birthday cake with Diego and a Maiasaura. Great for fans of Diego's Dinosaur Rescue.
- Dino Dan Birthday Cake
- Dino Dan is very popular at the moment. This Dino Dan cake has been very well decorated with Dan himself and brightly colored realistic dinosaurs. Very good.
- Rudy the Baryonyx from Ice Age 3
- A very impressive cake shaped like Rudy from Ice Age 3. Please don't tell my kids about this one. They love Rudy and I really couldn't make this!
Easy Options 5: Dinosaur Train or Diego Cake Topper
You can usually get dinosaur cake toppers on eBay featuring Dinosaur Train or Diego with Dinosaurs. A great option if you don't have much time.
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Have you made a dinosaur cake? Do you plan to? Which is your favorite dinosaur cake. Do you have a recommendation for our list of best dinosaur cakes? We'd love to hear from you.
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VeseliDan
May 25, 2012 @ 7:54 am | delete
- I will try to make a dinosaur cake. *blessed*
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MelonyVaughan
Mar 3, 2012 @ 9:57 pm | delete
- Of course I do! And I don't know a single young child who wouldn't love it either! These are so beautiful and fun!
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jmillerepps
Feb 8, 2012 @ 10:47 am | delete
- where were you in October when my son was begging me for a dinosaur cake! LOL, I love this lens! I guess we can try it again this year!
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JanezKranjski
Jan 22, 2012 @ 10:19 am | delete
- Great ideas for cakes. All kids like dinos.
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Edutopia
Jan 15, 2012 @ 11:49 am | delete
- What kid doesn't love dinosaurs! These cakes are great.
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Volcano Cake Recipe
Instructions for making the volcano cake that we made for our son's 4th birthday. It was amazingly simple to make. Chocolate sponge cake volcano covered in chocolate and decorated with fondant lava and dinosaurs. My son declared his cake to be the best birthday cake ever! He is already thinking of requests for next year!As usual we had left things to the last minute after a busy week at work. At 5pm we didn't even have any ingredients in the house. We made a quick trip to the supermarket to grab cooking chocolate and cocoa powder. I quickly put on a sponge cake to bake while we put the kids to bed. Then we quickly assembled and decorated the cake in less than an hour - both Mum and Dad contributed as always.
You'll need an 8" or 9" round cake pan
I used a silicone cake pan like this
Step 1: 8" or 9" Round sponge cake
The base of the volcano
- Serves: 8
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 35 mins
First you need to bake a round sponge cake, this will form the base of the volcano.
Ingredients
- 4oz/110g butter or margarine
- 4oz/110g caster sugar
- 3.5oz/100g self raising flour
- 3 heaped tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
Instructions
1. Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
2. Melt the butter a little in the microwave (optional)
3. Mix all the ingredients together (I use my electric mixer)
4. Bake for 20-25 mins. I used a 8" silicon
5. Leave to cool before decorating
You'll find lots of more complicated recipes and instructions, but I just throw everything together.
You'll need a Pyrex bowl
Around 6" diameter
Step 2: Microwave Chocolate Sponge Cake
The top of the volcano
- Serves: 8
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 15 mins
Now you need to make a chocolate cake in a deep round bowl. We used a Pyrex bowl in the microwave. Quick and simple.
Ingredients
- 4oz/110g butter or magarine
- 4oz/110g caster sugar
- 3.5oz/100g self-raising flour
- 2 eggs
- 3 heaped table spoons cocoa powder
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
1. Melt the butter in a pyrex bowl (optional)
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix
3. Microwave on medium for 5-6 minutes.
4. Leave to cool.
You can replace the cocoa powder with more flour if you would prefer a plain sponge cake.
Step 3: Assemble the volcano and decorate
- Serves: 16
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour
Once the cakes have cooled, it's time to assemble the volcano and decorate it with baking chocolate, and fondant lava and dinosaurs.
Ingredients
- 8oz/200g cooking or baking chocolate
- 1 pack mixed color fondant - must include red for lava
- A candle (or dinosaur candles)
Instructions
1. Place your Pyrex bowl cake on top of your round flat cake on a cake board. Use a sharp knife to cut excess cake to give a good volcano shape. Make a small cater in the top.
2. Melt the chocolate in a Pyrex jug in the microwave (start with 1 min intervals then reduce to 30 sec, stirring in between). The last pieces should melt when you stir the chocolate - don't overheat it. Pour the chocolate over the volcano and put in the fridge to set.
3. While the chocolate is setting, make fondant dinosaurs - I went for a T-Rex, Dimitrodon, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus and Pterodactyl. Don't overthink this. Work quickly or the fondant will get sticky.
4. Cover the cake board with the remaining fondant mixed together in a muddy brown color.
5. Roll out strips of red fondant for lava and place on the cooled volcano cake. Add the fondant dinosaurs.
6. Make a fondant rock and stick a candle in it.
Volcano Cake with Dinosaurs
The finished cake
Supplies for your volcano cake
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