How to Make a Dino Cake

Birthday parties are a big deal to me. As I waited to become a mother I always dreamed about the cool birthday parties my kids would have. Now that I have a child and a few parties under my belt, you would think that I would have learned the lesson that birthday parties are tiring. Take any short cuts you can to make it easier on yourself because the kid don't care. However lesson not learned and I decided to make Jordi's cake again this year (with major help from my girls - thanks Amy and NeeNee).

How to Make a Dino Cake

The first step is to ask a loyal cousin (Amy) to actually bake the cake for you. Thus everything will be ready to decorate when you get time. You may also want to ask if you can use her kitchen and a lot of her baking supplies. (Her kitchen is so much bigger and more conducive to a project of this magnitude).



Since the cakes were baked we were ready to go ahead and start making the icing which calls for powdered sugar, Crisco, milk, lemon juice, butter extract and clear vanilla.



Icing can be a bit hard to mix, so you need a trusty mixer to do the job. Sadly Amy's mixer did not survive the challenge. One beater bent and we had to mix the icing with the other solo beater. May her Sunbeam mixer rest in peace. It had a good run.



Once the icing was mixed we colored it dino green and started layering the cakes. Then we, as in Amy, added a crumb coat. I hate doing the crumb coat, so luckily Amy let me pawn it off on her.





Then Amy, NeeNee and I all jumped in to decorate the cake. It was getting hot in the kitchen, so the icing was starting to melt. Big ups to NeeNee for the excellent job making dino tracks.



I am pleased to report that the cake made it safely to the party, and Jordi loved it. Thanks to Amy and NeeNee for making my big ideas happen.