Prehistoric birthday cake

It was Master 4's birthday last month and he asked for a dinosaur cake! Thank goodness I have a stash of Donna Hay Kids mags - full of cake and party ideas. I found a design for a Stegosaurus cake and thought I would give it a bash!

I used a round cake to construct the dino - you just cut it in half to make the main body and cut the remainder to make the head, feet, tail and spikes. Then I iced with butter cream icing and darling hubby did the final sculpting and decorating (who would have thought that he would be so handy with a hot palette knife!)

The recipe for the vanilla cake is as follows -





Melt and Mix Vanilla Cake


2 1/2 cups (375g) plain flour, sifted

1 1/2 tsp baking powder, sifted

1 3/4 cups (275g) caster sugar

250g butter, melted

4 eggs

1 1/4 cups (310mL) milk

1 tsp vanilla extract





Preheat oven to 160C

Whisk the flour, baking powder, sugar, butter, eggs, milk and vanilla in a bowl until smooth.

Pour into a lightly greased 22cm round cake tin.

Bake for 1 hour 25 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer.




A great recipe....gotta love a one bowl cake that doesn't require the mixmaster!



And the butter cream icing.....


Butter cream Icing


250g butter, softened

2 cups (320g) icing sugar mixture, sifted

2 tblsp milk



Beat the butter with the mixmaster for 6-8 minutes or until pale and creamy.

Add the icing sugar and milk and beast for another 6 minutes or until light and creamy.

You can add colouring to the icing at this point. We used green for the dino