Volcano Dinosaur Birthday Cake Recipe

PREPARATION

• 1 Using 100 ml less cold water than pack instructions for each, make up the orange, raspberry, and lemon jellies in individual bowls. Refrigerate until set firm, then when ready to assemble break up roughly.
• 2 Add lime jelly crystals to a medium bowl and stir in ¼ cup (60 mL) boiling water mixing well, then stir the coconut through. Spread on to a tray and refrigerate until set and ready to assemble.
• 3 Remove both cake paper linings. Secure one cake, icing side up, with a little frosting slightly to the back of a 30cm square cake board. Top with second cake, icing side down. Firmly and evenly press together. Secure donut to the top of the cake with a little frosting.
• 4 Using a small, serrated knife, trim cake and donut into a volcano shape, with a crevasse for the “molten jelly” to flow from. Spread chocolate frosting over entire cake and use any remaining frosting to cover the surrounding cake board creating a textured surface.
• 5 Break up the lime jelly coconut and position clumps of “grass” around and up the side of the volcano. Dust with cocoa for effect (optional).
• 6 Position honeycomb “boulders” around edge of volcano. Spoon lumps of the three-jelly “lava” down the volcano crevasse, spilling out onto the surrounding cake board.
• 7 Decorate with plastic dinosaurs and trees. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.