Kid's Party

Meeting 15 - Kid's Party

Date: 15th September 2010
Place: Cake Brigade Member Bradley's Unit Base
Members: Bradley and Edkins


Imagine the scene. Bradley is walking home feeling woozy and calls Edkins to talk to her until she gets home in case she passes out in the street. Edkins does so, and then comes round a few hours later to feed her yummy soup. Then they make an epic cake. That, children, is how dinosaurs are born.

Now, we like to push our limits sometimes, and we like it even better when we pull it off.

This dinosaur was born for Faulkner on the anniversary of her birth 23 years ago. Based on the theme of children's parties from when we were little, and of course styled after the ever awesome caterpillar cake, we made a chocolate dinosaur cake, stuck together with chocolate butter cream, topped with melted milk chocolate and decorated with flying saucers and smarties. It really was the VISION OF COOL.

Edkins and I made this cake, and I'll be honest with you, dear reader, we have been more motivated to bake. Due to this, you can imagine our surprise at how well the cakes rose and turned out with our half hearted efforts.

We made the cake in three parts, using one cake for the main body, another for the head and tail, and the remaining cake for the legs. After cutting the cakes into the desired patterns, we covered them in chocolate butter cream to prevent crumbs and help with icing, which is a little tip we picked up from a website which I forget the name of and cant be bothered to find out. We were a bit cautious at first, thinking it wouldn't help, but by jingo, it made covering the cake with the melted chocolate the day after a hell of a lot easier! We used a skewer to hold the head in place on the body, and a wedge of cake under the neck to hold the skewer in place and prevent it from slicing the head in half. Now you know what killed off the dinosaurs. They didn't have cake wedges to hold their heads together.

We coated the pieced together cake in a generous layer of melted chocolate, and then lined the spine with flying saucers and dotted the back with smarties to make it a greater spotted chocosaurus.


We then proceeded to playing waiting for Faulkner to come home, treasure hunts, three legged races, egg and spoon races, throwing egg competitions, pin the nose on the clown, speed eating jelly and other such hilarity.

A good time was had by all.

<3 x