Things You'll Need:
- Two 9-inch round cakes made from your favorite recipe
- 6 cups butter cream frosting
- Food coloring
- Square chocolate candies
- Chocolate chips, white and red mini jelly beans
- Wooden skewers
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Step 1
Bake two 9-inch cake layers. Cool completely. Remove from pans.
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Step 2
Make at least 6 cups of butter cream frosting. Color your frosting, perhaps a vivid green or purple, or divide and use two contrasting colors.
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Step 3
Cut one cake layer in half, place the two halves together with cut edges facing down. Attach the halves with frosting. Cut the other layer in half, then cut one half in quarters, these are the legs. Cut a tail from the rounded edge of the other half, and use the remaining cake to fashion the head. Trim the pieces, rounding the corners. Attach the pieces with frosting, using wooden skewers to secure.
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Step 4
Crumb-coat, or give the entire cake a light coating of your frosting. Freeze for at least at hour before continuing.
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Step 5
Remove the assembled dinosaur cake from the freezer and remove the wooden skewers securing the pieces and discard. Generously apply frosting over the entire cake.
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Step 6
Use chocolate square candies to make spikes on the dinosaur's back and tail. You can make a single row or a double row of spikes. Use white mini jelly beans to make toe nails and red mini jelly beans to make the eyes. Use chocolate chips for nostrils. Chocolate chips or other candies can be used for spots on the dino body, if desired, as well
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Step 7
Serve and enjoy!
