For Stephen Sambrook's Southamptoversary there was only one obvious choice, frankly, for a ridiculous cake to celebrate such an occasion...
Jurassic Park! Raaa! I made loads of cherry and coconut cake (recipe: 16 oz sugar, 16 oz butter, 16 oz self raising flour, 3 tsp baking powder, 6 eggs, 4 oz dessicated coconut, handful of cherries halved - but I stuck them into the cake post-bake so they didn't sink/make the cake go squidgy) Once it was cooled, I cut the sponge into roughly the right shape of the T-Rex and the two Explorers and arranged on the cake board.
I iced the Explorers with yellow sugarpaste as a base, then a layer of green over the top. I added the detail with a black food colour pen and a red icing pen. Then I made a road out of grey icing, attached that to the bottom of the cake board and stuck the Explorers on top with edible glue.
For the T-Rex, I coloured a load of icing grey and covered the dinosaur cake shape. Then I added detail with black icing (to make him look a bit scaly!) and textured the surface with a skewer.
Then I did the face...
I used dark grey and yellow to colour more sugar paste for the eye, then used my FAVOURITE teeth ingredient - flaked almonds! I also used them on the Jaws cake, they work for any cake involving a creature with big teeth!
To finish off the cake, I used my white glitter gel pen to make rain (as there is a big storm going on during this scene in the movie) and also added detail to the road. If I was to re-make this one, I would have turned one of the Explorers upside down and messed it up a bit....and maybe added some bits of dismembered goat!
Sent a photo of this one to Empire (my favourite magazine) and they bloody printed it as letter of the month!
Thanks, Empire!
