Jurassic Sweets
January 25, 2015 When I was little, I read The Enormous Egg, a book about a chicken that laid a triceratops egg, and all the adventures the dinosaur had with its kid.
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(By The Cake Geek)
I've secretly wanted a dinosaur ever since.
Mind you, not one of the ferocious ones that will eat your neighbors.
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Although he's actually a real cupcake...
Sort of.
Still, it would probably be a good idea to stick with an herbivore.
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Plus, I'd never have to trim the bushes again!
Yup, I want a sweet dinosaur.
One who stops to smell the flowers...
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(By Experimental Cakes)
...before she eats them.
One who likes to gather mushrooms for dinner:
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One who waves when I come home:
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(By Cakes Decor member Laura e Virna)
...and one who likes to play fetch!
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(By Sweet As Sugar Cakes)
(Although maybe we should stick with sticks after this. o.0)
Hmmm, maybe my dino will be tall enough to help me reach those high places...
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(By Sugarland)
(Don't worry. He assures me he's a vegetarian.)
I'm sure my dino will have lots of friends.
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(By Karen Dodenbier of Dutch Cakes)
And we'll go on fun adventures!
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(By Zeph's Cakes)
I'll just have to keep an eye on Betty while we're out:
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(By Michelle Sugar Art)
Sweet kid, but she's a real dodo.
(No, really!)
Yup, I want a sweet dinosaur, but I know I can't really have one.
Except in cake.
And I guess that's Sweet enough. For now. ;)
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Reader Comments (25)
Squee :D the mushroom dino is so sweet :D
OH MY GOODNESS I REMEMBER THAT BOOK!!!! I had no idea what the name of it was - so glad for the reminder! And it made me want a dinosaur too!
These cakes have definitely "saur-ed" to new heights.
The third one is making me melt with sweetness. Although he DID take a bite out of the cake!
Wow! Those cakes are truly "Dino-Mite"!
Is the Dodo a White cake? =^-.-^=
If you ever see those "mushrooms" don't gather them for dinner. They are poisonous toadstools. :)
Oh my goodness I LOVED that book! I've read it over several times in the, well, lets say MANY years since I bought it! Triceratops have always been my favorite dinosaur because of that book.
Love the cakes - thanks Sharyn!
I LOVED THAT BOOK!! But I haven't thought about it in years. The line about the dinosaur playing fetch reminded me of this song (it's one of Olivia's favorites). Listen all the way through, it's a charming song :)
http://youtu.beNYwSMkpqSI8
Ah, the dodo cake makes me think of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. I think a re-read may be in order soon.
I was a HUUUGE dino-geek as a kid (probably one of the few 3-year-olds who answered "What do you want to be when you grow up?" with "A paleontologist!") and now I want all those scaly friends. And Jasper Fforde's character Thursday Next has a pet dodo named Pickwick, for those inclined to the birdy side of extinct literary oddities. :-)
These are all fantastic, but Billy's little red brontosaurus (or whatever kind of dinosaur he is!) is the cutest thing ever! I also like the vegetarian tyranosaur eating Garret's cake. These cakes were amazing--thanks for sharing!
@Maureen S -- I loved that book -- and if you liked it, and have read it since you were in single digits (I have!) you might also like Oliver Butterworth's "The Trouble with Jenny's Ear." (Not about dinosaurs, but I like his writing style.) For Dino books, "The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek" is also great.
@Shirley Fowley: Good one!
The creature eating the flowers is not a dinosaur, it's a pterosaur. Any 7-year old would catch you on that.
Misti: re-reading the first five Thursday Next books is a revelation. I think they were written together before the first one, _The Eyre Affair_, was accepted for publication after 76 rejections. The long arc of the plot, with forward and backward links, can only be discovered on a second reading.
is anyone else bothered by the T-Rex nibbling on leaves? The T-Rex (with its super sharp pointy teeth) was a carnivore.
"The Enormous Egg" is totally why I love triceratops, too!
"The Enormous Egg" is probably my favorite children's book of all time. I actually wrote a paper in grad school about it positing that Oliver Butterworth was criticizing McCarthyism through the book. It was so thrilling to find an interview with him (in a very small hometown paper) in which he said he absolutely did!! That was pretty exciting.
I, too, remember "The Enormous Egg." My son, now grown, would have gone crazy over those dino cakes when he was young. "Tyrannosaurus" was the first word he learned to spell, and he used to run through the house with two fingers in each hand extended, like T. rex's. He also wanted to be a paleontologist at a very young age, but he ended up being a music teacher.
I am thrilled to bits that (at least) TWO of these dino cakes are for girls!! You go, Jasmine & Vera! That made me really happy. And of course, as a huge Firefly fan, the name Vera always makes me smile. Love all these cute dinosaurs.
Total cuteness overload on this Sweets post!! But my favorite has to be the herbivore who took a chunk out of the cake. I. Just. Can't..... Aaaahhh! Too adorable!!!
Sunday Sweets is my favorite as I'm always amazed what real bakers can make cake look like. I'll have to show these to my husband. He's such a dinosaur fan that his latest hobby is making dinosaur masks out of paper. I'm not kidding. They're pretty adorable: https://tetravariations.wordpress.com/
The dino on Garret's cake would be a little cuter if it was on the left and taking a bite out of an 8 to turn it into a 9.
#3: Billy and the Cloneasaurus!
My grandson would go ballistic seeing carnivore dinosaurs represented as herbivores, and vice versa!