Know Your Dinosaurs

I've entered Threadcakes for the past several years, but this year I just wasn't feeling the cake love. For a while... then I remembered my hoody. I love this hoody. And it's my favorite because of the one image on the front of the brachiosaurus after his encounter with the tyrannosaurus. It's adorable. So I decided to bake a cake.

Only homemade cake and frosting for me so I started off by choosing a nice butter pecan cake, which turned out delicious. Lots of butter, lots of toasted pecans. While my cake was baking, I made homemade marshmallow fondant because it just tastes better than the stuff you can buy. After kneading and mixing my relatively few colors, I headed off to bed.

The next day I mixed some frosting with more, you guessed it, butter and pecans. Crumb coat was next. For the head, which was by far the trickiest part of the cake, I used an old candy cane left over from last Christmas and simply molded my fondant around it. It was heavy and it would have worked better if it were longer, but hey, it worked. I covered my cake with fondant, added some appendages and a tail. A few more details and voila! A darling little dinosaur complete with Band-aids.

All in all, I probably spent about 3 or 4 hours, most of it baking and making the fondant and frosting. The cake was yummy. My family loved it, and I'm so glad I didn't miss out on Threadcakes this year. (Even though I'm lame and only finally posting my entry the last week of the contest!) Thanks so much for once again giving me an excuse to make a cake. My only regret is I should have made more....