the land before time...

I made the cake! It took me far longer than I had intially thought, although that is because I used a completely inappropriate recipe for the first attempt! The cake was all crumbly and just fell apart :( Goodbye 8 eggs, loads of milk, flour, sugar... etc etc


So instead of trying to be fancy I just pulled out the most simple cake recipe I could find and made sure it came out of a cake decorating book ..... (guaranteeing it would be rubust!)


I baked two round cakes out of said butter cake mix ( with cocoa added) and cut out the shapes to make the dino shape (1 cake was used as the actual body and the other was cut into two to make the tail and head)

 

Then I attempted a crumb coat (a rough coat of icing to seal in the crumbs) ... but as im impatient it only lasted in the freezer for about 15 minutes... so out it came... looking PRETTY rough but ready for its final icing coat (well almost ready!)

After perfecting the icing it was time to do what i had been looking forward to... decorate it! I had mint truffle hersheys kisses, brown m&ms (regular and mini) and big chocolate buttons! I just put the spots all over and also used regular sized m&ms for his toes :D

i was quite pleased with the final result and decided to give him a smile instead of scary teeth :P not sure what sort of dino this would actually be considered... but anyhow his name is cliff and he is going to get eat VERY shortly.....