a big fat chubby cutie dino

And another seeing as how my sleep has off and run away with the spoon.

This cake was for my middle boy's 2nd Birthday.  He was so cute getting his cake! He was so excited but the then everyone sang him happy birthday he dissolved into a puddle of tears.  He was quite shy when he was 2, he certainly doesn't suffer from that affliction now!

I made the head and the upper body out of a marble sponge and the bulk of the body out of lollie cake.  Now for any non nzer's out there.  It pretty much consists of crushed malt biscuits, sweetened condensed milk, butter and lollies.  Here we use what used to be called fruit puffs (Im not sure you can get these over seas) but many people use pascall eskimos as well now.  They are this kind of stiff marshmellow thing.  I don't how to describe them.  It's kind of like trying to describe L&P (a nz specific soft drink) to someone.  Anyhow, lolly cake is delicious and loved by children everywhere.

This design is based on a Debbie Brown design so kudos where it is due.

I think it would be fair to say I almost threw this cake in the rubbish!  It was one of the very first times I had worked with fondant.  I thought to save myself time and effort I would buy some precoloured fondant.  I ordered online (I live rurally and there's no great cake shop anywhere near) and I for some reason didn't expect this shade of green.  I pulled it out and went WTF.  Once i got over that shock and was trying to cover the body I had problems with it tearing (novice me was the problem not the fondant) and cracking.  I removed the covering once and chucked it out and then recovered it.  By the time I decided that i didn't like that covering either it was too late to remove it.  Funnily enough didn't have a problem with covering the head.  The tongue was a bit of a problem as I hadn't learnt about tylose yet. But it sat ok in the end.

Just in case you all think I've been slack with the cake making (well I kind of have but you know....)  I have been busy knitting and crocheting as well.  I must say that I have been quite busy this term with all the kid commitments I have going on and next school term is a write off as I will be back into calving.