This dinosaur cake was one of the easiest cakes I’ve made. It may look tedious and complicated but it actually is very simple and easy to make. I started by baking chocolate pound cake using a 3D lamb cake pan. When the cake is cool enough to touch, I carved it out to make it look like a dinosaur. And since a lamb doesn’t really have a long tail, I had to improvise and make my own. I baked the remaining cake batter in a small loaf pan. And in the same manner when it was cool to touch, I shaped it into a dinosaur’s tail. I attached it to the body by spreading buttercream icing in between the two shapes. I, then, covered the dinosaur cake with green fondant. I used my hands to smooth the edges out to make the fondant hug the curves and arches of the dinosaur’s body and tail.
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To make it look like a real dinosaur, I added the eyes, mouth, hands, feet, the spikes and spots on his back using fondant too. I made 2 small indentations for the nose. Â I decorated the cake board by putting grass using green buttercream icing. For the final touches, I added the royal icing Happy Birthday sign, the plastic balloons and the party hat, which I just made using gift wrapping paper. Voila! A 3D dinosaur cake.
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