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It’s Liz’s birthday tomorrow. Happy birthday, Liz! I thought we’d celebrate with a dino excavation cake recipe. This week’s nerdy recipe combines two of my very favorite things: dinosaurs and birthday cakes.
I first made this cake for a friend a few months ago, without telling her what it was all about. I handed her the cake tin and a toothbrush (it’s an excavation, after all).
I picked up these dino cupcake molds in the Jurassic Park gift store at Universal Studios last year (see photo), after spending some time in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. But you can buy yours here.
Ingredients:
Let’s Make It:
1) Start by mixing your cake according to the directions on the box.
2) Jazz things up a bit by adding the zest of two oranges (or 1 orange and two lemons) as well as two teaspoons of vanilla extract to the batter just at the end of mixing. This helps give your box cake a more complex flavor, elevating it so it’s not quite so drab.
3) Spritz the cupcake molds with vegetable oil spray and dust with flour. This is important, or your fossils will come out very blurry.
4) Fill the cupcake molds using a large ice cream scoop. The batter should fill the molds about 3/4 of the way.
5) Place on a baking sheet and bake at 350 F for 23 minutes.
6) Flip the dino molds upside down to cool for 5 minutes.
7) Remove the molds and allow cakes to finish cooling.
8) Use a serrated knife to slice the domed bottoms of the cupcakes. They should lie flat when you are finished.
9) Arrange the cakes in a square pan and set aside.
10) Roll the cookies in a kitchen towel and crush gently with a rolling pin.
11) Bury the cakes with the cookie pieces. Add sprinkles if you like.
12) Present to your friends and allow them to dig the fossil cakes out.
Recipe by Emma Carew Grovum. She is a data journalist working at the Chronicle of Philanthropy in Washington, D.C. She previously worked as the Digital Editor for The Cooking Club of America and blogs at kitchendreamer.blogspot.com Emma loves Star Wars, pandas and all things Joss Whedon. Find her on twitter at @emmacarew.
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