Team members at Everything Dinosaur tried to bake a birthday cake for a family member but left it on a cooling tray too long. Having removed the baked cake from the oven, it was deposited on a cooling rack. Unfortunately, the hot cake became marked by the bars on the cooling rack. Inadvertently, we had created a dinosaur birthday cake complete with “raptor” claw marks.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Dinosaur Birthday Cake

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“It was just serendipity. We did not intend to create the marks in the cakes that we had baked, it happened by accident. However, we were rather impressed with the result. The cake looks like it has been clawed by the three-clawed hand of a dinosaur.”

For models and replicas of fossils including dinosaur claws and teeth: Replicas of Iconic Fossils, Dinosaur Claws and Teeth.

Once decorated the cake looked quite presentable. It was soon eaten but at least whilst it lasted, we could be comforted with the thought that we had produced a cake that was “on brand”.