Some fun things I've learned about dinosaurs so far:
- Birds are dinosaurs.
- Snakes used to have legs.
- Tyrannosaurus Rex had feathers.
- Pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs. By the way, why can't you hear pterodactyls when they go to the bathroom? Because the P is silent.
So for the dinosaur cake I wanted to have a water hole for the dinosaurs to drink out of, made out of blue frosting. Since my mom has found out how to make extraordinary frosting dye out of complete and utter scratch, I decided that would be fun to try. She texted me the directions.
First, you buy a big old red cabbage. Boil half of it for a long time and then compare the two halves. It looks like a brain on drugs!....... I am still trying to figure out what to do with the sober half.
Mix the dye with baking powder and then into the frosting with yeh! My mom uses cream to make the frosting but I only had milk. I figured it didn't HAVE to taste that good because it was just a little pool of water for the dinosaurs. They're used to water with algae and dirt in it, probably.
(It's periwinkle colored here, but adding more baking powder and also baking soda made it look more blue.)
So here's the cake!
The dinosaurs are courtesy of my brother Josh.
The trees are courtesy of broccoli, and the rocks are courtesy of my parents giving us truffles and chocolate candy.
A happy 24 year old man!
Sadly, the brown frosting is actually made of melted (and re-hardened) chocolate chips, and I spread it way too thick over the cake. It was hard to break through without destroying the cake, so we put as many candles as possible into just a few holes....
Cutting and serving it was QUITE a sight. Luckily it still tasted good!
