Dinosaur Cake in progress

Cut, stuck, iced and waiting for the 'boney back plates'.

Honey Joys

From http://www.kelloggs.com.au/Recipe/Recipes.asp?recipecopyid=2371

Ingredients
90g butter or margarine
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon honey
4 cups Kellogg's® Corn Flakes

Method
» Preheat oven to 150°C.
» Line 24 hole patty pan with paper cases.
» Melt butter, sugar and honey together in a saucepan until frothy.
» Add Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes and mix well.
» Working quickly spoon into paper patty cases.
» Bake in a slow oven 150°C for 10 minutes.
» Cool.

Making the Jungle Cake

The process started days before it's required completion date. If I'd been blogging at the time I would have posted a progress report each day! Definatley not a one day job.

First I made all the decoration pieces so they'd have time to dry. Leaves cut from green fondant, trees trunks rolled from brown fondant. Each small pebble was rolled between my fingers and I ended up with a bag full. I had left over green fondant already rolled out and that's where I got the idea of using it as a border for the bottom of the cake.

Then I got to the cake baking part. Yes, it's packet cake, but lets get over that and get to the fun part of decorating! I used a slab base and half a dolly varden for the mountain.



The day before completion date, I coloured plain vanilla icing with 'leaf green' and used the chocolate frosting that cake with the packet cake for the sides.



Still on the day before, I dressed the cake with nearly all the decorations. The palm trees had to wait as I wasn't confident that they'd stay standing.



And lastly, I added in a few finishing touches, including the lazy trees. The poor lion looks like he's getting sucked into the top of the mountain.

Jungle Cake

I created a jungle themed cake for my son's first birthday. View all the photos here. I got the original idea for the cake here.

Iced with chocolate frosting around the sides and green buttercream on the top, the base was a slab with half a dolly varden tin piece for the mountain.

The animals were candles with all rocks, pebbles, trees, leaves and decorations hand made and coloured in white icing/fondant.