Dinosaur King

This cake is for Marcus who turned 7 this month.

We've been decorating cakes for several years now and it's always interesting when we get unique requests. This time the challenge came from a boy --he wants 3 dimensional dinosaurs from a Sega game called Dinosaur King. You can read about the card collecting game here. One lazy afternoon, my sister and I went to the Timezone with our nephew to check out the game-- and we found out that it's basically a digital rock, paper, and scissors game!

It took the whole week to make the two dinos! After drying them, they were assembled then painted to make them look scary. The next concern was how to place it on the cake. He wanted a T-rex and a Triceratops fighting. Again, there are limitations of sugar art hence four obvious support were used to prop up the dinos. Three were used for the T-rex which in my mind would've probably saved them had they had better support during the Cretaceous period!

Trees were placed on the background -- all of them made out of gumpaste as well. Two shades of green were used to make tree and the trunk was painted in dark brown to accentuate the tree bark.

We use the Dinosaur King logo as pattern for the name on the cake based on the color scheme of red, orange and yellow.

The problem with 3D cakes is they are transport sensitive. When we got to the Discovery Suites, the T-rex tail moved! Luckily, we had royal icing with us to fix the problem.

150 pieces of mini cupcakes were placed around and below the cake. The final layout gave the cake another dimension! I love the final look of the cake and I hope Marcus did, too! We were not able to meet him but his Mom likes the set-up so yey!

Cake: Chocolate, 10"

P.S. Thanks @joefrago for the directions and support!