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Dinosaur Cake

Fearsome fun dinosaur cake

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/dinosaur-cake • Posted by Ann P.

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.

You will need

Project Budget
Cheap

Time

1 h 00

Difficulty

Nice & Simple
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Description

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.

Instructions

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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

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

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

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