Dinosaur Birthday Cake Decorating

Planning for a party that includes a dinosaur birthday cake allows you to create party decorations and games from the cakes decoration.

Ancient jungles and forests where dinosaurs once lived allow you to use plastic dinosaurs on top of the cake as cake decorations. Cover the sheet cake in mixed shades of green icing with blue ponds created from melted sugar and blue food coloring. Strategically placing plastic trees with many types of dinosaurs is only one way to create this 3D dinosaur cake.

Decorating Dinosaur Cakes

Creating a singular dinosaur may be more challenging but to the dino-loving birthday person, worth it. Cut and assemble cupcakes, bread-pan cakes and cut sheet cakes into the shape of a favorite dinosaur. Then use icing in fun green, purple and black or whatever colors your birthday child chooses to create the details.

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Cupcakes provide an easy way to decorate dinosaur birthday cakes and clean up may be easier as each portion is self-contained. Placing individually iced cupcakes together into one larger cake gives the appearance of a full sheet cake without cutting individual servings. Use marshmallows to create hills and small mountains for flying dinosaurs and small fondant plants give land-dwelling dinosaurs a place to get out of the sun.

Use dinosaur stencils to create dinosaur shapes with colored glitter and other cake decorating non-pariels. Overlaying dinosaurs creates a unique style of decorating that allows guests to try to count how many different dinosaurs are on top of the cake. This type of cake provides a party game as each guest counts the number of dinosaurs they see and the winner receives a prize.

Hiding toys and Sweets in the Cake

Using flat-bottomed ice cream cones filled with gummy worms, candy bones or small plastic dinosaurs, young archeologists can dig through cake cubes and pudding topped with icing. Using a very large, cleaned and lined flowerpot, guests can scoop out a portion using a sand-digging toy and discover the hidden treasures inside.

Topping a flowerpot dino excavation pot with icing that may include modern day items including roads, sign posts and miniature tools will be a twist on a familiar theme.

Layering cut sections of a sheet cake, cupcakes to create a mountain complete with caves and hidden bones, apply a mixture of green and brown icing. Place plastic dinosaurs and candy minerals around, giving guests the chance to choose a slice of history. Dinosaurs, hard candy bones, gummy skeletons and rock candy crystals embedded in icing and between cake layers are just a few ways to create a fun, archeological dinosaur cake.

dinosaur birthday cake photo Photo courtesy of roland
This cake was frosted with chocolate frosting and given a grass border. A lake was added using blue edible sparkle gel.

More Dinosaur Cake Ideas

Check out a Stand Up or 3D Dinosaur Cake idea. We have a dinosaur cake decorating pattern that you can easily print off and make a cake image or paint your cake.

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There are also dinosaur cake pans you can use. Some are discontinued so look for people selling them.

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Make easy dinosaur cupcakes

photo courtesy of imelda
Once you have chosen the type of dinosaur birthday cake to make choosing games, decorations and serving utensils will be a piece of cake.

Make a Dinosaur Cake Video Tutorial

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