Turn your loaf cake into a dinosaur-themed bake for a fun and creative way to bring a prehistoric twist! This easy to decorate cake is perfect for birthdays, themed parties or for any dinosaur lover.

Materials

  • Dinosaur Print Out
  • Acetate
  • Tooth Picks
  • Loaf Cake
  • Sprinkles
  • Colour Mill Chocolate Drip - Yellow, Orange & Black.

Method

Create Your Shapes

  • Print out an outline of a dinosaur head, scales and tail.
  • Place a piece of acetate over your piece of paper.
  • Choose your Colour Mill Chocolate Drip colour and on the acetate, trace and fill each shape.
  • Decorate your shapes with a secondary colour Mill Chocolate Drip colour, adding facial features, spots and scales.
  • Place your chocolate in the fridge to set.
  • When your chocolate is firm, remove from fridge and flip over each shape.
  • On the back of each shape, make two lines of chocolate and place two toothpicks in each line. This will hold your shapes to the loaf.
  • Place your shapes back into the fridge to set.
Trace & fill each shape with Colour Mill Chocolate Drip.
Decorate your shapes adding scales, spots and facial features.
Make two lines of chocolate, which will hold your tooth picks.
Your tooth picks will hold your shapes to the loaf.

Decorate Your Cake

  • While your chocolate firms up, let's decorate the body of the dinosaur.
  • Ice your loaf cake and decorate with sprinkles, chocolate and any other decorations you would like.

Assemble the Dinosaur

  • Take your chocolate shapes out of the fridge.
  • Situate your cake loaf with the long edge facing you.
  • Starting with the chocolate scales, place them along the centre of the loaf in a line, getnly pushing the tooth picks into the loaf.
  • Finally, place the head and tail of the dinosaur in each end of the loaf.
Dino Loaf Cake decorated with Chocolate Drip.

What’s included

Chocolate Drip

Green

calculated at checkout

A touch of yellow with a splash of blue and you've got yourself this thriving shade of Green that is sure to leaf an impression.

Written By Colour Mill
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