‘Tutorial Tuesday’ How to make a sugarpaste dinosaur!

In this week’s tutorial we’re showing you how to make your own sugarpaste dinosaur. This fully edible model is perfect for themed cakes; experiment with proportions, size and colour to transform your dinosaur into an alligator or lizard. This tutorial is a quick and easy to theme your cakes and cupcakes.

What you need for this tutorial…

Sugarpaste in three contrasting colours
Blate tool by PME
Bone tool by PME
Edible glue by Squires Kitchen
Black by Wilton
Wooden kebab sick
Wooden cocktail stick

Step one: Take a small amount of your chosen base colour and create a ‘tadpole’ shape to create the dinosaur’s body.

Step two: Set your dinosaur’s body aside. Take a smaller amount of your chosen base colour and shape a circle for your dinosaur’s head. Be sure to taper the circle slightly to create a snout for your dinosaur.

Step three: Take the wooden cocktail stick and gently push in through the neck of your dinosaur. Paint a small amount of edible glue by Squires Kitchen around the cocktail stick. Now slide the dinosaur head into place.

Step four: Now it is time to create your dinosaur’s nostrils. Using the Bone tool by PME gently indent two small nostrils in your dinosaur’s snout.

Step five: To add eyes simply roll two small balls of white sugarpaste and squash them down between your index finger and thumb. With a small amount of edible glue by Squires Kitchen attach two eyes onto your little dinosaur. Using the end of the wooden kebab stick take a small about of black colouring by Wilton and ‘stamp’ two pupils on your dinosaur’s eyes.

Step six: Take your chosen base colour and roll out two sausage shapes. Using the blade tool by PME slice the sausages in half to create four dinosaur legs! To create the ‘claws’ simply roll out a contrasting colour between your fingers and glue them on with a small amount of edible glue by Squires Kitchen.
Step seven: Take the remainder of your chosen base colour and shape triangles in various shapes to create the dinosaur’s tail spikes. Paint a stripe of edible glue by Squires Kitchen from your dinosaur’s neck down to the tail and secure them in place.

Step eight: Take your Blade tool by PME and scour lines in each of your dinosaur’s knees and snout to add definition.

Step nine: To customise your dinosaur why not experiment with this tutorial? We add pink spots to our dinosaur using a contrasting colour? You can stamp out hearts, stars or cut out lines to decorate your dino’s skin!

Congratulations! Using this tutorial you now have your very own sugarpaste dinosaur to adorn your fun cakes and cupcakes with!