Prehistoric Party (Wonder Mold Pan) Cake

instructions

To tint coconut, place desired amount in zip-close lunch bag with a few drops of green icing color. Knead until color is evenly blended.

Make cookie dough. Trace cloud pattern on dough with sharp knife; insert 8 in. cookie stick. Cut out puppy, dinosaur and boy. Also cut small triangles to be used as easels for cookies.

Bake and cool. Ice cloud cookie smooth, use Tip 3 to print message. Outline remaining cookies with Tip 3.

Cover puppy, dinosaur and boy's tunic with Tip 13 stars. For boy, pipe Tip 2 dot and string facial features and Tip 3 pull-out hair.

For puppy dinosaur, add Tip 2 dot eye and pull-out teeth, Tip 4 pull-out spikes. For dinosaur, pipe Tip 2 dot eye, 3 spots on back. Attach triangle easels to backs of cookies and set aside.

Ice Wonder Mold cake smooth. Ice top area under lava with white icing and the remainder of cake with chocolate icing.

Add a textured effect to mountain with spatula. Tint portions of piping gel yellow, red and orange. Spread yellow gel on lava area.

Use Tip 3 to pipe random lines of red and orange gel on cake and lightly spread with spatula to mix colors.

Position cake on board. Sprinkle coconut, insert cloud cookie and position remaining cookies.