Dinosaur Cup Cake Birthday Ideas
The dinosaur phase is common among young children. If children in your life ask for a dinosaur cake or cupcake, you've got several easy and fun options that kids will love. Cupcakes are ideal for portion control and convenience---on the birthday, there's no messy cake to cut. Get creative and incorporate the child's favorite colors and make multiple cupcake flavors. Let your creativity guide you.
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Fondant Dinosaurs
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Buy dinosaur-shaped cookie cutters and fondant (a creamy coating for cakes, which is available at specialty cookware shops or online, and comes in an array of colors). Then roll out the fondant to 1/8-inch thickness and stamp out dinosaurs using your cookie cutters. Personalize the dino by cutting fondant dots or stripes. Frost cupcakes with your frosting and cover the top of each cupcake with the fondant dinosaur.
3D Cupcakes
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Purchase dinosaur figurines, shredded coconut, chocolate cookies and green food coloring. Squirt green food coloring on the coconut to turn it green. Crush the cookies in a blender until powdery. Frost your cupcakes. Then cover half of the cupcakes with the green coconut (for grass) and the other half with the crushed cookies (for dirt). Top each cupcake with a dino figurine.
Dino Candies
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Buy dinosaur-shaped gummy candies. You can also purchase miniature eggs (for dinosaur eggs) and rock candies (those that are shaped like rocks, not the sugary rock candy). Decorate your cupcakes with frosting, then top each one with your choice of dino eggs, dino candies or rocks.
Dinosaur Outline
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Cover a flat piece of cardboard with aluminum foil. Bake both standard-sized and miniature cupcakes. Then trace a large outline of your child's favorite dinosaur on the foil, such as a stegosaurus. Bake your cupcakes and let them cool. Then move them into your cardboard and arrange the cupcakes in the outline, using the mini cupcakes for contours (like a tail, or spikes). Frost the cupcakes using colored frosting. Use more miniature cupcakes (or other candies, like marshmallows and rope licorice) to personalize the dino with eyes, spikes and stripes.
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