dinosaur cake?

Io07

Hello
I am in a bit of a spot here...
My dino mad DS would like a dinosaur cake (a big fan of Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs)
I ordered a Harry cake topper on ebay and plan to buy a plain iced photo cake from asda to use it with (£9.99)to cut at nursery
I was going to buy a second dino cake for him for the actual party -again a ready made one, asda AND tesco had them until last week for ?£8....and now they seem to have disappeared!!:mad:
So, don't want to spend £20-£40 (M&S/waitrose only other options) - found a youtube video which I think I could manage - total novice at baking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqzVWKJr_hI&NR=1&feature=fvwp

my questions:
1. Can I add green food colour from asda to the ready to use betty crocker vanilla icing tub? will it make it too runny? No proper cake shop here so alternative has to available in asda/tesco
2. I plan on buying 2 of asda's plain raspberry sponge (98p) - do they taste OK?
3. How far in advance can I do the icing? party on a sunday.
3. Someone pls tell me icing a cake is err...easy??

thanks and sorry for long post! (I am stressed!)

esmf73

Hi,
I've tried all sorts of wierd and wonderful things for my kids cakes. My advice would be to go for the simplest dinosaur shape that you can - perhaps NOT a T-rex!!

How about a seated dinosaur? Then you don't have to worry about legs. If you PM me your ideas - what you'd like to make in an ideal world and what you think you can make then I can let you know what I'd do and how I'd do it.

Also - how old is your DS? Just that if he's young then a cake that looks enough like it is usually OK, whereas if he is older then they can see that it isn't really a dinosaur!!!

How about a dinosaur footprint instead? Will wait to hear from you.,
Emma

Bunny200

some more links which might help

http://www.everythingdinosaur.com/dinosaur-party-cakes (first one looks good and you could use the pre-made cakes if u aren't planning to bake one)

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Dinosaur-Birthday-Cake


some really helpful info for decorating cakes here


good luck

Io07

thank you Bunny200.
Have pm'd you Emma

greeneyedmonster13

To decorate I would mix the food colouring with the ready-made icing you have (not too much though a little goes a long way). Then roughly spread it over cake - this makes a rough skin texture. I added chocolate buttons (as dinosaur scales) sort of standing up a little and overlapping like fish scales but further apart. Then use other types of jelly sweets or raisins etc for eyes and face details.

mightymolly

I buy all my icing on ebay, it's the roll out stuff and available in loads of different colours, I reckon a brontosaurus type thing sitting with some nice plates down his back would look fab!

mightymolly

I made a Blinky the three eyed fish like this, would upload a photo but can't:(

domestic_goddess

I mixed pink food colouring with the Betty Crocker icing when I made my little girls princess castle cake - worked really well.

pretz_2

i made this cake last year for my DD's birthday was really easy pm me if you need any help

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1542833&highlight=

nuttybabe

hi

i made this for my sons 4th birthday. first cake i ever made so must have been easy!! the brown bit in the back is a volcano and not a pile of poop like dh though!!! :P



it might give you an idea on how to make one (but better!!! :P)

debbym

Tescos sell green icing ready-to-roll as part of a mixed colour pack by supercook
http://www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/2/xpi54658942.htm
Although having watched the youtube vid the icing they used looks pretty runny! I would add the food colouring and maybe some sieved icing sugar if it is too runny.