erupting volcano birthday cake

Step 7 The cake!

This part took me about 8 hrs, 7 cake mixes, and 11 cans of icing. I have made my own cakes and icings from scratch before but this time I just wanted to get it done quick (if you call 8 hrs quick). You can see to tubes for the coco powder shooters hanging below. They are visible sticking out the top of the volcano if you look close. I also dusted the top of the volcano with icing sugar to make it look kind of snowy (not shown in this picture) I placed enough plastic dinosaurs (bought in packs of 6 from the dollar store) around the volcano that every child at the party would get one with their slice. I made sure to place a few of the dinosaurs in the path the lava would take.

What a project!

Comments

[bobbym529]

Nice! The only heresy is "to reduce the volume of cake". Gasp! Yes it will be hard to top this. Maybe a glow stick in there somewhere for the glowing part of the lava? This even out does those Ace of Cakes guys. :-)

[wirecutter]

WOW what a cake! I know that I go over the top with my 'Birthday' bits for my two girls and now the 4 grandchildren but your Volcano puts anything of mine to shame. A word of warning..... Next year something even more spectacular will be expected, if not from the family but from every child at the party!! and the Mum's and Dad's ( WHO ALL WILL BE HATING YOU!** for giving them more work )

[Insanitek]

I volunteer at a hands on science museum for kids. This gave me a very fun, unique and hilarious (also expensive) way to do a volcano demonstration during a fundraiser picnic. Thank you so very much. If I can find the money, I'm totally making one of these for that sort of event.

[estefany]

wow dat cake is soo big i gueess it was hard doin dat