Dinosaur-loving kids will cheer when you serve this candy-scaled, spiky-tailed figure. Build the lizard from cakes baked in our Stand-Up Cuddly Bear Pan and Mini Wonder Mold Pan.
In advance, using patterns, make scales and toenails: Tint melted white candy violet using candy color.
Step 3
Cover patterns with waxed paper, outline and fill-in with melted candy in cut disposable bag. Tap gently to even out and refrigerate until firm. Carefully remove from waxed paper.
Step 4
Bake and cool cakes using firm-textured batter such as pound cake. Trim ears from Bear cake. Cut Mini Wonder Mold cake in half.
Step 5
Attach Mini Wonder Mold half to back of bear with icing. Attach large marshmallows with icing to build up tail area (cut in gradually shorter pieces to taper towards bottom).
Step 6
Cover tail area and build up face and arms with tip 12 in buttercream. Pipe-in tip 12 whites of eyes and bottoms of feet. Add tip 4 dot pupils and nostrils, string mouth.
Step 7
Cover face and body with tip 18 stars. Insert candy scales and toenails.
Happy Birthday, Spike! Cake is rated
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Ijustwanttomakemykidshapp from
Great Idea, Terrible instructionsI'm a beginner. I don't have a lot of practice or expierence, but with proper instructions I can make it happen.
I have already tried doing the 3D duck, and those instructions were clear and to the point. The instructions for this guy are very vague.
Maybe it's silly to need more guidance (how much icing to tint in what colours, where to find stencil for spikes or make my own. remember to dip finger in cornstarch to smooth feet, ect - that kind of thing.)
This tutorial/instructions are greatly lacking in description.
Date published: 2015-12-12
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Cakein Fun from
This cake is a lot of fun to make and share! I also made a matching smash cake with the mini pan! I made the spikes from candy melts and they turned out great! I was a little nervous on the delivery because it was shaking a lot but it all worked out!!!
Date published: 2013-03-11
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sister2 from
I made this cake for a friends grandson's third birthday. He had picked it out from your site. He loved it. I used the last few segments of the nordicware caterpillar pan for the tail instead of the marshmallows, spikes from candy melts and he looked soooo cute. His thumbs up when he saw it, was all I needed.
