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The baseboard was custom cut at Bunnings (hardware store) and the cake board was actually in the craft section and sold as a house number plaque.

The cake board shape was perfect because the t-rex tapers in at the front for the chest and at the back for the tail. And so, he starts coming to life. His whole body was cake and because it only needed to feed a small amount of people, the head was styrofoam.

Vanilla butter cake with raspberry white chocolate ganache.


First coat of ganache.

At this stage I was slightly regretting my decision to use that pre-bought cake board shape because something just didn’t look right. It looked like a whale with a tail and some legs. Hmm… But I continued, thinking that once it’s been ganached properly, it might start to look right.

But still it didn’t seem quite right. It was then that I went back to good old google and just searched for t-rex pictures. After studying some of them I realised what was wrong – the tail angle was not in line with the body position. It seems weird that something as simple as moving the tail can fix it but it totally did.

See? Now the tail will be in line with the angle of the head and it does not look like a whale anymore.


So then the head gets carved from two different sized styrofoam balls and after lots of shaving and mess, Mr. Rex is ready for his head and to come to life!

Fondant is used to smooth out the joins between both round shapes.


The best part about covering a dinosaur in fondant? You can’t really stuff it up! The skin is supposed to be textured and wrinkly anyways



The first coat of colour…


The second coat… all the textures start to show up.


The third coat … Giving him some stripes and shading


Then it was time for him to dry out and get vision!