3d Dinosaur Birthday Cake

Step 5 The Final Touches

• Spread a layer of white frosting on your cake board and toss some toasted coconut around for grass.
• Add any other finishing touches you like. Candy corn for spikes on the tail, cinnamon candies for the eyes, and chocolate chips for the toes. We made palm trees using tube cookies with fronds of parsley -- this was the first thing every kid wanted so make a small forest if you do it.

Grab the camera and enjoy!

Comments

[susanchen2011]

wow. So creative.

[jgrove1]

Thanks for these instructions. I made this for my (28 year old!) boyfriend and it turned out great, I think!

I couldn't be bothered with the star-tip icing so just roughly iced with loads of butter-cream. The spines were Fry's chocolate turkish delight and iced as well. The 'dirt' is the rest of the cake broken up. Thanks again!

[mmansfield koren]

'wilton.com has a great and easy recipe to make your own marshmallow fondant. Literally took me 5 mins!!!! I am going to try this cake for my son's 5th b-day. Thanks for sharing!

[smbusse]

Hi happylil, what did you use for your spikes?

[happylil]

 Hi, it was toblerone!! yummy

[anton belcian]

very nice and thanks a lots

[ednamr]

What did you use for the spike all those you put on the back of the dinosaur?
I'm gonna try to do this tomorrow, hope you can help me out.

[msimon3]

The plates on the back of the dinosaur are made from fondant.  The spikes on the end of the tail were made from candy corn.

[happylil]

thanks for the fab instructions, as you can see I adapted the decoration but your instructions were great!!

[chibiushi]

We're making this cake for my sons 2nd birthday tomorrow, and yes it is taking quite a while.

[rican_babe]

'Pretty sure my son will love this cake, I'm gonna try to make it for His B-Day next week!!!

[Superboys]

Hey we made this cake for my lil bro on the wkend and were just wondering how long it took you, coz it took us 4eva!! Thanks!

[msimon3]

You are a great brother! Took us 4eva too :)

[Superboys]

Well Im actually his sister but thats ok, and we didnt even put on the scale things with the floral thing, we put died coconut on the icing instead coz it just took foreva!!

[bluepumpkin]

this may sound like a stupid question, but where do you get fondant (or how do you make and color it) and what size star tips do you use for the frosting? i checked my local grocery store and they didnt sell "fondant".

[msimon3]

We used a pre-made fondant made by Wilton, and found it at our local craft store. If you are feeling adventurous, you could try this recipe.