Today I will tell you how I made a dinosaur cake for my son in honor of his second birthday.
For the cake you needed:
1) eggs, flour, sugar (for cakes)
2) mastic
3) marzipan 50%
4) strawberries, bananas
5) AmeriColor gel dyes
6) tools for mastic and marzipan
7) rolling pin for mastic
8) vodka
9) knife
10) gel for coating fruit cakes
11) silicone mat
12) sponge brush
13) cake base
14) pan lid (for cutting out a circle)
15) candle "2"
16) iron for smoothing mastic and marzipan
17) syrup for impregnation
18) food flavoring
19) spoon, glass, plate
First I baked three sponge cakes.
Then I prepared the necessary tools and materials for work.
When the cakes had cooled, I cut out three circles using a pan lid. The diameter of the lid is 16 cm. The cake ended up being almost 18 cm in diameter.
Then I rolled out the chocolate fondant and cut out a circle the same diameter as the cakes. When I transferred the sheet of mastic to the substrate, I stretched it a little so that there was a small margin for attaching the top layer of marzipan and mastic.
Then I placed the first cake layer on the mastic and soaked it with lemon syrup on top.
Our family traditional cakes are always dairy-free, because... My daughter is allergic to milk, so I used my kids’ favorite fruits - bananas and strawberries.
I soaked the middle cake with lemon syrup from the bottom and top, and the top cake only from the bottom.
When the sponge base was ready, I rolled out the marzipan, cut out a circle and covered the cake. I wrapped the edges with a strip of marzipan.
It is this kind of covering that turns out to be much neater than covering it with a whole sheet of marzipan and then cutting off the excess.
The surface of the cake was leveled using a pastry iron.
The birthday boy slept while my daughter and I carefully prepared the surprise.
In the photo you can see my baby’s little hands carefully attaching the “mastic chocolates” to the marzipan.
Together with my daughter, we quickly decorated the sides of the cake and I started covering the top.
I rolled out a piece of milky mastic of the required diameter, made a depression in it with a rolling pin for the lake and depicted the texture by pressing the mold of the sheet.
I stamped the edges in a circle with the sharp end of a leaf, and then cut out the resulting zigzag with a knife.
The resulting oasis was transferred to the cake.
And now the most interesting...
How to paint mastic without an airbrush.
I use AmeriColor gel dyes to color mastic and marzipan.
Previously, I colored the mastic by adding a few drops of dye to the mixture and mixing well. This process took me a decent amount of time.
On top of everything, my hands were painted in the most incredible colors!
If I painted small pieces of mastic, I put them in a bag and crushed them in the bag so as not to get my hands dirty.
But I've done all this before...
Today I did it differently.
I rolled out an unpainted piece of fondant, transferred it to the cake and only then painted it.
I needed brown, black, two shades of green and blue dyes.
To apply the color evenly, I had to mix the dye with a small amount of vodka (just a little, just a few drops for each color).
After which I applied the dyes to the mastic using a sponge brush, blotting the surface a little. This is how the paint applies very evenly and does not remain a puddle on the surface.
I got a blue lake.... I got a stunning grass surface - with shades of green from light to black-brown...
Of course, it’s impossible to say that the effect was the same as after using an airbrush... But it turned out pretty good.
In general, I was pleased with the result and I’m sure I will use this coloring option again and again...
I saved a lot of time, effort and soap on washing my hands!
The effect of simulating water was achieved using a dent in mastic, blue dye and confectionery gel!
Now the landscape is ready!
Afterwards, I made two dinosaurs, leaves and flowers, and on wafer paper I wrote the name of my birthday boy and the congratulation “Happy Birthday!” with an edible felt-tip pen.
Then I transferred all the decor onto the cake.
Here's the cake!
And here are some photos of the culmination of the holiday.
Alas, it was not possible to photograph how the dinosaurs were eaten.... Some incomprehensible part of one of the dinosaurs lies to the right of my daughter.
The cake was mercilessly bitten and the lake was licked...
And only after our children had played enough, I cut everyone a piece of cake.
Thank you for your attention!
two paper templates based on these images (click to enlarge). You can either print them out or transfer them onto a sheet of paper manually, while looking at the picture on the screen. Either way, make sure the pattern is the right size for a 23cm cake layer.
Bake two cakes with a diameter of 23 cm and let them cool completely. Remove the cakes from the baking pan.
- Self-prepared cakes will be denser and stronger than semi-finished ones. It may take longer, but your cake will come out neater and easier to decorate later.
- If you have time, freeze the cake layers before assembling the dinosaur. This will make them less crumbly when smeared with cream.
Cut out the dinosaur's body. Determine the center of one cake layer. Cut the crust in half with a serrated bread knife. Place the two halves together, with the cut edges touching, on a work surface as shown. This is the body of a dinosaur. Set it aside.
Cut out other body parts. Cut out the paper templates and place them on top of the second layer (exactly as they were drawn, cut them only after they have been laid out correctly). Cut out the pieces from the crust.
- Before you start cutting the crust, lay out the pieces of paper on your body segment to see how they look. If there are any cuts or adjustments you want to make, make them on paper before cutting your crust into pieces.
Collect a dinosaur. Look at the photo on the right for help. Connect the two parts using white cream. Then attach the other body parts. Place the head on the body using a toothpick (pay attention to where it goes so it doesn't accidentally end up in someone's piece of cake later). Trim the corners and square edges on the legs and shoulders to your liking.
Using a spatula, spread a thin layer of green cream over the top of the cake. This is called crumb coating - and for good reason, because a lot of crumbs fall off and are mixed into the cream. Lightly press the surface of the cake. This will be to your advantage as the cake mix is quite crumbly and difficult to work with.
Decorate the dinosaur with scales. Pipe buttercream stars onto green frosting, then mix in blue stars for accent.
Add the mastic sheets. Lay out the mastic sheets in a polygon shape on the back. If the fondant icing doesn't stick well, insert a toothpick into the plate and then stick it into the cake.
- To prepare the plates, roll out the mastic into flat cakes 3 mm thick. Cut the fondant with a small knife to create polygon-shaped plates for the dinosaur. Prick the slices with a toothpick to give them a ribbed texture. Make as many blanks as will fit on your dinosaur.
Find out how to make a dinosaur out of paper and plasticine. And for the celebration, you can bake a cake in the shape of a lizard or create a decoration from mastic and decorate pastries with it.
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Children tend to show interest in the unknown. They love stories about animals that you can no longer see even in the zoo. Some kids want to know how to make a paper dinosaur so they can make one. If you bake a birthday cake in the shape of this animal or decorate a dessert with it, the child and his little guests will be indescribably delighted.
Fondant cake decoration in the shape of a giant reptile
Read how to make a dinosaur out of fondant and make a delicious cake with this character.
If the child is a teenager, then he will like these reptiles. For kids it is better to make more friendly ones. And data is made of mastic. For the provided cake, 3 sponge cake layers were baked. The lower one is in a wide low shape. The other two are in shapes of smaller diameter, but tall. After this, each of the top cakes is cut horizontally into 3 parts, which are coated with cream.
Then all the floors of the cake are covered with fondant of a certain color. After this, the dinosaurs are glued using:
- squirrel;
- water;
- or food paint.
To mold them, cut a strip from a thin layer and make teeth in the center with a knife. Divide the workpiece in half - you have teeth for the upper and lower jaws of the animal. For his body, you need to drip a little green food coloring onto a lump of mastic, knead it, roll it out and cut out the shape of the animal according to the template. Below are two. Choose any one and use it as it.
If you don't have food coloring, use carrot juice instead of orange. Green will replace spinach, and red will replace cranberry.
Homemade mastic should dry for a day or even two in the air, after which the cake can be used for its intended purpose.
Mastic dragon - 3 examples of sweet creativity
A child can easily make a reptile together with his mother. Dinosaurs are molded from plasticine in the same way as from mastic. Children will be interested in creating these animals from the sweet mass, because then it will be so nice to eat the result of their labor.
Here the dinosaur is blue, but you can use any other color. First let the child roll 2 circles - one smaller, the second larger. Now they need to be connected, placing the small one on the large one to form the body of the beast. Mark the upper part of his hind legs with a knife or a thin stick and stick triangular legs down and also 2 up, attach the tail.
Next, an oval is molded for the head, the nostrils and nose of the reptile are indicated with a wooden stick. From small volumetric triangles you need to make “spikes” from the head to the tip of the tail. Now you need to dry these cake figures well at room temperature so that they do not “float” later, and you can decorate the baked goods.
See how to make a dinosaur cake. This could be a dessert dedicated to a fairy-tale character, so similar to this one. Read how to make a dragon, which you can and should then eat.
Biscuit dough was baked for it, and butter cream was prepared from the following products, used:
- 1 egg;
- 250 g butter;
- 200 g sugar;
- 150 ml milk;
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar.
You need to apply cream to the first layer, cover it with exactly the same biscuit, which is smeared with jam. Place the third cake layer on top in the shape of a dinosaur. Lubricate it generously with butter cream.
If you prefer chocolate, then add instant cocoa to it when cooking the cream. If you use regular milk, first stir it with warm milk, then pour it into the boiling mass.
Place a piece of biscuit on the back and head of the character.
Do not throw away the cake scraps. Grind them and mix with cream. Laying this mixture on the base of the cake, form a complete dinosaur out of it.
Now cover the figure, except for the head, with a layer of green mastic. Cover with cling film and refrigerate overnight.
In the morning, take out a homemade cake, cover the animal’s head with fondant, and decorate it as your imagination tells you.
Now you know how to make a dragon so that it turns into a cake. If you want to make a dinosaur out of mastic, look at a simple example.
This cake will take everyone who contemplates it back many thousands of years. Create a corner of nature from that time. Here's how to decorate a cake at home so it looks like it was baked by a famed pastry chef.
For him take:
- mastic;
- food paints;
- molds;
- silicone rolling pin;
- marzipan mass.
Now you need to roll out another layer, coloring it green. Cut the edges with a zigzag, make a depression in the center, slightly to the side, for the lake, using a pastry iron or the back of a knife.
Now, this is how to make a dinosaur out of brown mastic: we sculpt its body with a tail, then attach the legs, and make small details. Create flowers from mastic, and give the leaves texture using molds.
Write with fondant who the cake is addressed to and after drying, hand it to the birthday person.
Now that you know how to make a dinosaur from mastic, you can explain to your child how to create one from other materials. The manufacturing principles are largely similar.
How to make a dinosaur from plasticine?
The figure shows what parts a large and small animal consists of. We sculpt the body in the form of an oval. The tail looks like a long cucumber, the tip of which needs to be sharpened. For the head, a piece of plasticine must first be rolled out into a “sausage”, then bent on one side so that the head appears on the neck.
For the lizard's legs, let the child knead the plasticine, roll 4 ovals out of it - 2 are slightly larger - these are the front legs, and the other two will be slightly smaller than these - these are the hind legs. The claws for one paw are made from three small lumps of plasticine.
All that remains is to collect all the details and finish the educational lesson. If you don't want to complete it, then read how to make a dragon to look like a cartoon character. It can be molded not only from plasticine, but also from polymer clay and mastic.
This master class has prepared already numbered photos for you. Looking at them, you can carry out all the steps in the given order and make a dinosaur out of plasticine.
Here's what you need to have with you for this craft:
- blue or other colored plasticine;
- small balls - 2–3 pcs.;
- plastic knife;
- toothpicks;
- hook;
- beads.
If you do not have blue plastic mass, use any other plasticine, taking material of your favorite color.
Roll out the plasticine into a pancake shape and place a ball inside. Close the hole. In front of this blank, mold a nose.
Also, using the second ball, make the body of a charming dragon. Then sculpt his paws. To make them flat at the top, press this part with your hand or with a small ball. Mark your fingers with a knife.
Use it to create a couple of folds on the back. Attach the hind legs and tail.
Let's take care of the animal's head. Using a hook, outline his mouth and nostrils. Create indentations for the eyes by pressing a bead here. The eyes consist of white - these are 2 larger balls and a pupil - a smaller circle.
For the upper eyelids, thinly roll out the plasticine of the desired color, give it a triangular shape, and round the bottom corner. Reattach the eyes. This can be done using pieces of a toothpick and a small button on the stem, securing the eye sockets to it.
The steps for making the front paws are given in the following pictures.
Attach them and start making wings. For each, a three-dimensional triangle is molded, then you need to decorate the veins, as in the photo. Wrap 2 beads with pieces of plasticine, attach them to the wings, and the other side to the back.
This is how dinosaurs are made from plasticine. If you want to make them differently, check out these cool ideas.
Create a dinosaur from cardboard and paper
Origami is a very interesting type of needlework. By folding the paper in a certain way, you will get a lizard. How to make such a dinosaur using the origami technique from paper, diagrams for beginners will help them not get confused. Explanations will also make things easier.
For origami, take thick paper. It should be double-sided, that is, it should be painted in some color from the front and back.
Roll it diagonally first. Then bend 2 corners as done in the second picture. In this case, the edges will be on the diagonal line. The photo shows how the dinosaur is then made according to the origami principle. You can also watch a video with step-by-step making of a reptile at the end of the article.
If you want to go with an easier option, check out the following. This lizard was made from thick paper - cardboard.
Draw the outlines of the body, legs, and spines of the future dinosaur on cardboard and cut it out.
Make 2 cuts on the abdomen, insert a pair of legs into each. Then make several small cuts on the back for the spikes, which must also be installed on the body.
Carnival lizard masks
Speaking about how to make a dinosaur, it is worth noting that you can turn any person into one for a while, and also use unexpected materials to create a dinosaur. Look how interesting the plastic canister was carved to become the dragon's head.
Only 3 items helped create it, these are:
- canister;
- felt-tip pen;
If you don't know how to make a dinosaur, and you need to make a mask of this animal, take:
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- white double-sided tape;
- newspapers;
- PVA glue;
- white cardboard;
- paints.
Now measure the head of the person for whom you are making the mask with your own hands, cut another strip of cardboard along its diameter, and glue its ends together. Determine the area of the head from the hairline to the back of the head, cut a strip of this size, and glue it in place. Using PVA, 2 horizontal fragments are attached to it, the upper edges of which must be glued to the top of the mask.
Let the glue dry, leaving the mask on until the morning. The next day, attach many strips of tape to it, creating eye sockets. Now you will make a dinosaur using papier-mâché technique.
Remove the top protective film from the tape and glue newspaper onto these strips. Take the second one and lubricate it with PVA. Glue to this one, then the next one, and so on, until the mask is tight enough. Now you need to let it dry thoroughly and only then paint it. When it’s dry, it’s time to go to a costume ball to show off your creation.
In the meantime, the mask is drying, we suggest watching the promised video:
The following story will be useful for children, as it shows how to make a dinosaur from plasticine:
The best gift is a sweet gift, guaranteed by anyone with a sweet tooth. What to do when a holiday is just around the corner, but you don’t want to treat your baby and guests to store-bought cakes? If a child is delighted with dinosaurs and everything connected with them, you can give him an original cake with dinosaurs as a gift. It’s quite simple and won’t take much time, but your baby and his friends will be in a good mood. Especially if they love dinosaurs too! If your baby loves shaped treats, then you can try making him a cake as a gift. Your child will be no less, if not more, happy about such a surprise than a regular cake.
What does it take to create an unusual treat?
- in the shape of a dinosaur.
- green (for example, spinach or its juice).
- Triangular and round ice molds.
- Delicious custard.
- Round candies or dragees for decorating the cake.
- Jelly is yellow, purple or any other color - at your discretion.
- Whipped cream.
- Prunes (optional).
How to make a Dinosaur cake?
First you need to prepare all the necessary ingredients. We give the cakes the shape of a dinosaur by cutting them with a special pattern. Once everything is ready, you can start creating the treat. Place the cakes on a table covered with cling film or oilcloth. If there are several cake layers, or one cake is cut into several parts, you should coat the joints of the sponge cake with cream. Then you need to give the cakes a cheerful green color. To do this, take food coloring and whisk it together with the butter cream. Carefully coat the future cake on all sides with the resulting “greenery”. There should be no gaps through which the cake peeks out, nor too thick, uneven strokes, so as not to create the impression that this is not a cake, but an oil painting. The product should be coated evenly using a spoon or culinary spatula.
All is ready? It's time to move on to decorating the delicacy. Now you will need jelly, cut into triangles and circles. Place the triangles on the back, head and tail, evenly, slightly pressing into the biscuit, but not too hard so as not to spoil the dish. You can decorate the belly of the future dinosaur with circles. Now it's time for the peephole. Using whipped cream, draw two large dots on the face. Press a black dragee or prune into the middle of each creamy circle. The dinosaur eyes are ready! If you want them to be more expressive and shiny, you can use cream to draw another dot on the black “pupil”.
Finishing touches
Our ancient guest from the past is almost ready, but the final touch is missing. We decorate the body of the edible reptile with dragees or other round candies at our discretion - here you can show your imagination and call on your imagination to help. Remember that many children’s cakes turn out beautiful and original, but the dinosaur should truly amaze and surprise your guests. At the end of all the work, use a pastry spatula to carefully draw a “smile” of the dinosaur. Or you can line the outline of the mouth with sweets or prunes. The choice is yours. That's all. Our dinosaur cake is ready!
Second delicacy option
The first version of the holiday delicacy is very good for a gift and table decoration. But what to do if there is no way to reproduce such a culinary masterpiece, but you really want to try the original treat? In this case, you can try to make a cake with dinosaurs and it will turn out no less beautiful and unusual, but you won’t have to waste time giving the sponge cake its original shape.
How to make dinosaurs from fondant?
First you need to decide on the appearance of the product, the specific arrangement of parts on it. It is advisable to sketch a sketch in which the details of the future delicacy will be clearly visible. Then you can start preparing the treat. Mix the mastic, adding food coloring to it. After the mastic is ready, carefully cover the future cake with dinosaurs with it. To do this, roll it out with a rolling pin, making sure that the diameter of the sweet coating is 2 times the diameter of the cake. In order for the coating to be smooth and shiny, it is worth going over it with an iron several times. Then we carefully lift the resulting mastic with a rolling pin and transfer it to the cake, carefully smoothing out all the folds and irregularities. The future delicacy is almost ready, all that remains is to add the main thing - dinosaurs. To create them, roll out a ball of mastic of the appropriate color in your hand and sculpt in turn the torso, paws, and head of a guest from the past. Modeling from mastic is very similar to the process of creating figures from plasticine. You need to glue the parts using alcohol or water, making sure that they are firmly connected to each other.
Shutdown
After the figures are glued together, you need to place them on the future cake with dinosaurs. We place the products on a toothpick, trying to do this carefully and carefully. Then we continue to sculpt the figures to taste and also place them over the entire surface of the delicacy. At the end of the work, you can write congratulations on the cake. Or you can cut out letters from mastic and put words out of them. In any case, the cake with dinosaurs will turn out to be unusual and very beautiful. You can safely give original cakes - they will make a unique impression on the recipient. A mastic treat with representatives of the ancient animal world and a DIY “Dinosaur” cake are an excellent gift idea for a child of any age.
Chocolate cake "Dinosaur" will wonderfully decorate a children's holiday table and will delight your little ones. My dear friend Irina shares her creation with us.
Dinosaur cake recipe
Ingredients (for 2 cakesD=23 and 25 cm):
- butter - 230 gr.
- eggs - 3 pcs.
- milk - 250 ml
- sugar - 350 ml
- cocoa - 3 tbsp.
- flour - 500 ml
- baking powder - 3 tsp.
- vanilla sugar - 3 tsp.
Ingredients for cream:
- Boiled condensed milk – 1 can
- Butter – 1 pack
For decoration:
- breakfast cereal stars
- marmalade
- colored dragee "Tick-tock"
- coke shavings
Preparation:
Beat eggs with sugar into stiff foam.
Melt the butter, cool slightly and pour milk into it.
Mix flour, vanilla sugar, baking powder, cocoa and gradually add the resulting mixture to the beaten eggs, then pour in the cooled butter and milk. Knead the dough thoroughly.
Grease baking pans D = 23 and 25 cm with oil (it is advisable to place baking paper on the bottom), then pour the dough into them and bake at t = 175 degrees. about 40 min. It is important to bake two cakes at once!
Check the readiness of our cakes with a toothpick or match.
Leave the finished cake in the mold for 10-15 minutes, and then carefully remove it from the mold and cool on a wire rack to room temperature.
We decorate the cake. First you need to cut the small cake in half and attach the halves to each other - this will be the body of our dinosaur.
A large cake must be cut according to the diagram and formed from all the dinosaur parts:
Then you need to take the cake out of the refrigerator and cover the entire surface with cream in an even layer.
Now we can start decorating our dinosaur.
This is the wonderful chocolate cake “Dinosaur” that Ira made.
Bon appetit!
For viewing, I offer a video recipe for preparing baby "Hedgehog" cake
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