Life has been pretty busy of late - I've been baking almost weekly but I've just not had the time to post on here, or rather when I have had the time I've been snoring my head off on the couch instead.... like the song reference above, it's an age thing!
So, why dinosaurs on the brain? I made a dinosaur cake for my handsome little neighbor who is turning 6 and after much discussion and worry he settled on a green dinosaur cake - oh to be six again and having the only stress in your life being what cake you should choose.....
He asked for a chocolate flavored green dinosaur and that's what he got!
I was humming and ha-ing (that is a word!) as to the best way to go about this one as it didn't need to be huge - just enough to feed 14 hungry boys who'd been bouncing all afternoon - perhaps I should have gone huge??
Eventually I settled on the Wilton Sports pan and me being me had enough cake batter to also bake a 3 inch high, 8 inch round chocolate cake ;-)
I carved one of the ball halves to make his head, I think it's a boy, and the other half I sliced vertically and filled with the chocolatiest chocolate buttercream which elongated him into the perfect shape that I wanted. Of course I acted like I knew this would happen.
With him dirty iced in more of the CCBC (chocolatiest chocolate buttercream) he slept in the fridge overnight all nice and safe whilst I partied for St. Patrick's Day - I know any excuse right?
This morning I colored the fondant and covered him and cut out lots and lots of triangles and circles for his body armour, and made his tail and legs. FYI - they don't have to be anatomically correct when you're going to eat them.
I wasn't going to do much for his mouth, truth be told I'm not the best at doing mouths but I couldn't resist adding a cheeky tongue :-p
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| For the record, I hate these cake boards! |
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