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Blue Raptor Dinosaur

Skill level: Advanced

Avalon's Dino-FOUR birthday was this past week and I wanted to create a big showpiece cake for her birthday along with a baby dinosaur cake and this was the result!

Learn to make a cutesy blue raptor showpiece out of rice cereal treats or cake, sparkling dinosaur eyes, how to scale photo references to create any cake you want and how to make a cake structure to match.

1:30:29 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to scale photo reference to size for any cake design
  • Learn how to make cake structures based on photo reference
  • How to sculpt a realistic raptor dinosaur
  • Learn techniques for making the raptor out of cake or rice cereal treats
  • How to make edible dinosaur eyes
  • Liz showcases several different painting techniques
  • How to make a crackle board texture

Tutorial Chapters

  1. How to scale photo reference 0:10
  2. Working at ¼ scale 5:28
  3. Planning the structure 8:05
  4. Cutting the boards 11:44
  5. Building the structure 15:39
  6. Gluing structure 20:16
  7. Making the structure food-safe 23:45
  8. Adding arms 27:21
  9. Adding rice cereal treats 32:20
  10. Wrapping the rice cereal 35:56
  11. Building up the mouth 37:03
  12. Carving down 40:00
  13. Carving the head 45:41
  14. Making dinosaur eyes 48:26
  15. Building up the face 51:16
  16. Working on the mouth 58:17
  17. Making raptor teeth 1:01:01
  18. Building up arms 1:03:09
  19. Working on the feet 1:05:23
  20. Adding toe nails & finger nails 1:07:22
  21. Ganache crumb coat 1:09:57
  22. Covering in fondant 1:10:50
  23. Texturing fondant 1:14:12
  24. Detailing the face 1:16:17
  25. Painting the dinosaur 1:20:06
  26. Finishing the board 1:25:43

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.