Dinosaur Cake

Fearsome fun dinosaur cake

Posted by Ann P.

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The perfect cake idea for little ones who love dinosaurs - add as many dinosaur models as you like. This is a fun cake to make, which involves lots of chocolate so the kids will enjoy helping to create as well.

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You Will Need (7 things)

  • 6” x 6” (15cm x 15cm) chocolate cake

  • Chocolate buttercream

  • Chocolate sticks (e.g. Matchmakers) 2-3 boxes

  • Chocolate buttons

  • Jelly beans

  • Chocolate sugarpaste

  • Dinosaur model

Steps (7 steps, 60 minutes)

  1. 1

    Bake a chocolate cake and sandwich it with chocolate buttercream.
    Roll out a piece of chocolate sugarpaste and stick it to the top of the cake, trim the edges.

  2. 2

    Spread chocolate buttercream thickly around the sides and stick the chocolate sticks all around, break them off at different lengths.

    Tip: Chocolate fingers can also be used around the side of the cake

  3. 3

    Continue until all the sides of the cake are covered in sticks; make sure they are pushed well into the buttercream so they don’t fall off.

  4. 4

    Spread a really generous quantity of chocolate buttercream all over the board with a palette knife.

  5. 5

    Stick lots of ‘dinosaur egg’ jelly beans and chocolate buttons into the chocolate buttercream.

  6. 6

    Create a dinosaur using sugarpaste (from some of my other recipe ideas), or use a toy dinosaur if you prefer.

  7. 7

    Place the dinosaur of your choice into the cage and stick it in place with a little buttercream