You will be the most popular person in town if you make this Dorothy The Dinosaur cake for your children’s next birthday party. It is one of the recipes from the Wiggles new cook books – Cooking with the Wiggles and Emma’s Tea Party.
Feeds 12 Wiggles
Ingredients:
- 3 x 510g pkts vanilla cake mix, plus listed ingredients
- 200g white chocolate Melts
- 2 tbsp liquid glucose
- 3 x 400g tubs vanilla frosting
- Green food colouring
- 340g pkt yellow Candy Melts
- Small silk flowers
- Tube of black writing icing
- Parent
Grease two deep 23cm square cake pans. Line bases and sides with baking paper. Make cake mixture following packet directions; divide between pans. Bake as directed.
- Parent
To make modelling chocolate, melt chocolate Melts in a microwave following packet directions; cool. Stir in glucose (chocolate will harden). - Child
Wrap modelling chocolate in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 3 hours. - Parent + Child
Spoon frosting into a bowl. Add drops of food colouring, stirring with a spoon, until frosting is Dorothy green (see picture). - Parent
Using the picture as a guide, cut a Dorothy shape out of the cakes. From the first cake, cut out Dorothy’s body; place on a presentation board. From the second cake, cut out two identical shapes for her head, then stack them on top of one another, securing together with frosting; position on the board above her body. (If necessary, trim a little off Dorothy’s head so it’s not so high.) - Parent + Child
Cover cake all over in frosting. - Parent
Trim a few Candy Melts to make smaller dots. - Child
Copy the picture and put Dorothy’s spots, flat-side up, on the cake. - Parent
Knead modelling chocolate, then roll out to a 30cm round. Using a knife, cut a 25cm semi-circle for Dorothy’s hat. Cut out eyes, teeth, gloves and spikes for her tail. - Parent + Child
Copy the picture and put on Dorothy’s eyes, teeth, gloves and spikes. Gently shape Dorothy’s hat to fit around her head. Using a little frosting, stick flowers on her hat and on one glove. Draw on her pupils and eyebrows with the black writing icing.
