After watching a birthday episode of Dinosaur Dan on TVO, NB announced back in July or August that he wanted a Velociraptor birthday cake. I believe Dinosaur Dan had a stegosaurus cake but not having watched the episode or seen the cake I don't know.
I thought in a week or a month his mind might change on what he wanted in a cake. However, after the mention of different people's birthdays he kept mentioning that he wanted a velociraptor cake. Time to brain storm. I knew my artistic skills weren't going to allow me to draw a facsimile that was more than the a blob with legs (it could be a therapod if you squint right). Maybe fondant, more of the same.
Time to hint pinterest.
Surprisingly there weren't many velociraptor cakes pinned there. There was this fossil one that I loved (but figured this isn't what NB had in mind). I then found this cake which seemed much more doable. I should probably mention in here, that the cake would be served in Toronto so it needed to be somewhat portable.
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So I first made a flat chocolate cake (cause what soon to be 4 yo doesn't want chocolate cake for his birthday) |
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For the volcano (didn't I mention the Volcano), I bake Red Velvet cake into a mason jar, and a couple of ramekins. The rest I made into cupcakes. |
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When the cakes had cooled I made some icing, I left the crumb coat white, and tinted the rest. I then sketched a scene. |
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Added some colour. (I put graham crackers over the path). At this point the cake travelled to Toronto |
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I leveled one of the red velvet ramekins, iced with chocolate and added to the cake. I repeated with the mason jar red velvet cupcake. If I do this again I will put in a wooden skewer to secure the cake layers. The geological landscape was unstable and the volcano collapsed before the cake was served. |
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Lava was added to the volcano, the velociraptor, and some candied chocolate rocks. |
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It was a big hit and the little boy loved his cake, and couldn't wait to eat it. |
I should mention that the only time NB had wavered on the Velociraptor cake theme was after seeing Aunt Emily's cake which he thought had a spider on it. So he thought a spider fighting a scorpion would be a good birthday cake. I disagreed.
2 comments:
Dunno - a spider fighting a scorpion is pretty awesome, especially is you're a Ninja. But still, kudos to the baker/creative department for executing an amazing cake!
Awesome cake!
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