Dinosaur cake

My little one just turned three last Thursday, and we had a party with family and friends on Saturday evening. She’s obsessed with dinosaurs, so in a fit of creativity I thought of something special I could do with her cake. If you have a dinosaur-loving child too, here’s what you can do:

All I needed was a regular cake baked in a bundt pan (my mother-in-law actually took care of that for me since our oven is on the fritz). Then I used chocolate fudge icing to turn it into a nice mountain. I used an extra large blob of the icing to mostly fill in the hole in the center as well.

then I took some red fruit roll-up strips and twisted them, then draped them from the center of the cake to the outside to make “lava” which then turned the mountain into a volcano.

My daughter has a ton of dinosaur figurines and some of them are fairly small so I washed those in the sink and then placed them around the top of the volcano.

When it was all done – and it took me no more than 15 minutes – it looked pretty cute and when she saw it the next day, she was ecstatic over her dinosaur cake. Easy and fun!

(Some people ask me why there are four candles – around my area it’s common to put a candle for each year of the child’s age, plus one for good luck. I thought it was something everyone did, but maybe it’s a Canadian thing. Do you do an extra candle for luck on your cakes?)

(photo: me)