The best gift is a sweet gift, guarantees any sweet tooth. What to do when the celebration is on the nose, and you don’t want to treat the baby and guests with purchased cakes? If a child is delighted with dinosaurs and everything connected with them, you can make him an original cake with dinosaurs as a gift. It is quite simple and does not take much time, and a good mood for your baby and his friends will be ensured. Especially if they also love dinosaurs! If your kid loves figured treats, then you can try to make him a cake in the form of a dinosaur as a gift . Such a surprise the child will be delighted no less, and even more than an ordinary cake.
What will be required to create an unusual treat?
- Sponge cake in the shape of a dinosaur.
- Food coloring green (e.g. spinach or its juice).
- Triangular and round shapes for ice.
- Delicious custard.
- Round candy or jelly beans for cake decorating.
- Jelly yellow, purple or any other color - at your discretion.
- Whipped cream.
- Prunes (optional).
How to make a Dinosaur cake?
First, prepare all the necessary ingredients. We give the cakes the shape of a dinosaur, cutting them with a special pattern. Once everything is ready, you can begin to create refreshments. Put the cakes on a table covered with cling film or oilcloth. If there are several crusts, or one crust is cut into several parts, smear the joints of the biscuit with cream. Then you need to give the cake a cheerful green color. To do this, take food coloring and whip it together with butter cream. The resulting "greens" gently smear the future cake from all sides. There should not be any gaps through which the cake peeps out, nor too thick inhomogeneous strokes, so as not to give the impression that we have before us not a cake, but a picture painted in oil. The product must be coated evenly with a spoon or cooking spatula.
Everything is ready? It is time to move on to decorating the goodies. Now you need jelly cut into triangles and circles. We lay out the triangles on the back, head and tail, evenly, slightly pressing into the biscuit, but not too much so as not to spoil the dish. Mugs can decorate the stomach of the future dinosaur. The peephole came. With whipped cream, draw two large points on the face. In the middle of each creamy circle we press a black dragee or prune. Dinosaur eyes are ready! If you want them to be more expressive and shiny, you can use cream to draw another point already on the black “pupil”.
Finishing touches
Our ancient guest from the past is almost ready, but lacks the final touch. Dragees or other round sweets decorate the body of the edible reptile as you wish - here you can show your imagination and call your imagination to help. Remember that many children's cakes are beautiful and original, but the dinosaur should really amaze and surprise your guests. At the end of all the work with a pastry spatula, we carefully draw a “smile” of the dinosaur. Or you can lay out the outlines of the mouth with sweets or prunes. The choice is yours. That's all. Our dinosaur cake is ready!
The second option is goodies
The first version of the holiday treat is very good for a gift and table decoration. But what if there is no way to reproduce such a culinary masterpiece, and you really want to try the original treat? In this case, you can try to make a cake with dinosaurs from mastic. The cake will turn out to be no less beautiful and unusual, but you will not have to spend time on giving the biscuit an original form.
How to make an unusual cake with dinosaurs from mastic?
First you need to decide on the appearance of the product, the particular arrangement of parts on it. It is advisable to sketch a sketch on which the details of the future goodies will be clearly visible. Then you can start cooking treats. Knead the mastic by adding food colors to it. After the mastic is ready, gently cover it with the future dinosaur cake. To do this, roll it 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 turn out to be smooth and shiny, it is worth going over it several times with an iron. Then gently pry the resulting mastic with a rolling pin and transfer it to the cake, gently smoothing out all the folds and bumps. The future delicacy is almost ready, it remains to add the main thing - dinosaurs. To create them, we roll out a mastic ball of the corresponding color in our hand and sculpt in turn the body, paws, and the head of a guest from the past. The mastic molding is very similar to the process of creating plasticine figures. Glue parts to alcohol or water, make sure that they are firmly connected to each other.
Shutdown
After the figures are glued together, you need to put them on a future dinosaur cake. We plant the products on a toothpick, trying to do it carefully and carefully. Then we continue to sculpt the figures to taste and we also arrange them on the entire surface of the treat. At the end of the work with a pastry syringe, you can write a congratulation on the cake. And you can cut out letters from mastic and lay out words from them. In any case, the cake with the dinosaurs will turn out to be unusual and very beautiful. Original cakes can be safely gifted - they will make a unique impression on the recipient. A mastic treat with representatives of the ancient animal kingdom and a Dinosaur cake made by yourself are an excellent idea for a gift for a kid of any age.