I would like to make a Barney the dinosaur birthday cake and require step-by-step instructions for the icing?

Question

Alternatively, is anyone able to help me with instructions to make the Barney characters, including BJ and Baby Bop, out of sugar paste and marzipan?

Answer 1

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Dinosaur Cake


This is one "dino-mite" dinosaur cake recipe. It's easy to make and sure to be a hit for your kid's birthday party.

1 box yellow cake mix
1 box (3 ounce) instant pistacho pudding
3 eggs
1 cup carbonated water
1 cup vegetable Oil
1 cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts)
green food coloring


Combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil, and carbonated water in a large bowl. Beat for 3 minutes. Then stir in nuts. Add several drops of green food coloring for a nice green dinosaur color. Pour into a greased 13X9X2 inch pan at 350F degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.


Cool the cake completely. If you want to make your own homemade dinosaur, cut the cake into shapes for the body, head, neck, tail, and spines. Then put the shapes together to make one big dinosaur. Spread the green topping so that the shapes blend together for a continuous look. Or for a quick and easy solution, you can use a dinosaur cake pan.

Dinosaur Cake Topping


1 envelope of whipped topping mix
1 box (3 ounce) pistachio pudding
1 1/2 cups milk
purple food coloring


Put whipped topping mix and pistachio pudding mix in a bowl. Add milk. Beat until thick. Add several drops of food coloring.


Spread the purple topping over the entire cake. Then decorate your dinosaur cake to give it that prehistoric look. You can use walnuts, pecan nuts, chocolate chips, Hershey's kisses, cookie crumbs, maraschino cherries, purple gum drops, or any other creative topping.


Make prehistoric grass by adding green food coloring to shredded coconut and also by shredding carrots. Dye hard boiled eggs for dinosaur eggs, speckled for a wild egg look.


Serve to young dinosaur fans with Rocky Road ice cream.

Serves 15.











these games are for a barney themed party too,,, thought i may help
Barney's Musical Chairs: We all know how Barney loves music. Have some of Barney's music ready and of course one less chair than there are children. They march around the chairs until the music stops. When the music stops, they must find a seat. The child without a seat becomes a cheerleader on the sidelines. Each time the music begins, there is one less chair, until there are two children and only one chair. The one who gets the last chair is the winner!

Purple Dinosaur Egg Hunt: Fill plastic eggs with candy. Place a special candy, such as a gold egg, in one of the eggs. The person who gets the "gold" egg, wins a special prize!

Answer 2

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I would like to make a Barney the dinosaur birthday cake and require step-by-step instructions for the icing?
Alternatively, is anyone able to help me with instructions to make the Barney characters, including BJ and Baby Bop, out of sugar paste and marzipan?

Answer 3

Get two boxes of Duncan Hines cake mix and make two thick, rectangular sheet cakes. Use a mix; you've got enough to do. Copy or draw a picture of a dino on a sheet of paper. Let the cakes cool COMPLETELY. Lay the picture on one cake. Using a very sharp knife and working slowly, cut around it. Do the same with the other layer. Make or buy white frosting. Add a few drops of green food coloring. You'll need a double recipe or at least two cans. Frost the first layer. Place it on a large baking sheet. Brush the crumbs off and use a butter knife to spackle the frosting on. Don't pull at it; it takes awhile. Be patient. Put the second layer on top. Frost the top. Now apply frosting around the sides. Apply a good glob to the side and begin to gently pull it around the cake. Should spread a few inches. Glob again. Use M&M's for eyes and mouth.

Answer 4

Barney Cake Pan

Answer 5

If you've never done this before, this is not the time to embark on such a task. It's not something that can be learned overnight. Marizipan takes years to master. Just go buy a Wilton Barney pan, make the cake, get a cheap pastry bag, practice a little first with your frosting, and then decorate the cake.

Answer 6

OK..you asked for it!

I have to assume you know how to bake a cake. Any flavor of cake will be fine. Be sure you grease a 9x13 cake pan very well with crisco and flour it completely. when the cake is done turn it out onto a prepared cake board ( you can buy at walmart or hobby lobby, or just get a 15x12 piece of cardboard and cover it with foil.)
When you turn the cake onto the board, gently push the bottom of the pan before you lift it off to reduce the 'crown' that may be on the top of the cake. Then cover the cake with a nice clean kitchen towel to cool. The towel will allow the cake to cool without drying out, but allow some moisture to wick away so that the cake does not become soggy. Allow cake to cool Completely before icing.

Buttercream Icing:
2 cups crisco
2 cups real butter (room temp)
2lb bag of powdered sugar
2 tsp clear vanilla
1 tsp almond extract

put crisco and butter into mixer bowl (best with a stand mixer, this takes a while) turn mixer onto lowest speed and run until mixture is perfectly smooth and creamy... you can gently pull a spatula throught it without lumps or air bubbles. This can take 10 minutes or more.
Add sugar, one cup at a time, slowly increasing mixer speed only enough to keep mixer from choking, keep on lowest speed possible. When all sugar has been added and is smooth, add flavorings and continue to mix slowly for about two more minutes.

Cover with plastic and put aside.


For Barney:
Find the simplest drawing you can find, such as a child's coloring book. The more details the harder this is.

use a copier to make the picture the size you need it to fit on the cake.
cut around the picture leaving about a 1/4" margin.

Now Listen carefully:

Take Heavy Duty aluminum foil and fold it into a thickness of 4 sheets that is big enough to tape your picture onto it. Tape the barney onto the thick foil, keeping the foil as flat and wrinkle free as possible. Cut the foil around the picture leaving just enough to keep all layers taped together.
Lay the foil on a piece of flat styrofoam with the picture side up. Using a very large needle about the size of a toothpick, poke holes along every line making the holes very close together. Make sure not to leave out details such as eyes and toes.
When it is complete, you can hold the template up and look at the back side and see the entire shape of barney. The holes protrude from the back of the foil.

Ice your cake as smooth as possible. If you can't seem to get it smooth enough, let the icing set on the cake to form a very slight crust, then lay a paper towel that has NO design on the icing and GENTLY smooth out knife marks with your finger. You can pick up the towel and move it to do very small sections at a time.

When the cake is iced smooth. put it in the fridge for about 20 minutes so the butter in the icing can get firm.
Then Lay the foil pattern you made with the paper side up and the Pokey-hole side down onto the iced cake. Again Gently trace all the design with your fingers working quickly before the icing gets soft. then lift the pattern off the cake. At first you will wonder how you can ever makes heads or tails of all those dots on the cake, but trust me, you will.

Get several bowls of icing, and color it with paste icing color. one should be black for outlining the entire shape, and the others will be the colors you need to fill it in.

Use a pastry bag (walmart, hobby lobby or the supermarket) and a round tip ( #3) and keep your original drawing handy to use for reference. Start by outlining the shape and filling in any black parts of the picture. Then switch to the purple color, and use a star tip (#16 or #18) and pipe stars real close together to fill in the large parts. continue with filling in stars of whatever colors you need to complete the picture.