Dinosaur cake/cookies

Dinosaurs, a lot of Geeklings love them. Including my youngest. She was immediately sold when her father shared his collection. Her favorite is the Triceratops, followed closely by the T-Rex, she even has a pluche T-Rex which she takes to bed. It should have been no surprised when she asked for a dino birthday cake.

I made both my kids cakes before, but found that cake with layers of fondant where beautiful to look at, but not great to eat. At least not for my Geeklings ;-) So I decided to make a strawberry cheesecake, with a dino twist. A cheesecake is hard to decorate, since it's so soft, so I decided to place decorations op top and alongside the cake.

 of the ​On AliExpress I found different kinds of cookie cutters and silicone molds. In the end I chose a set of different cookie shapes. For cookies I always use the recipe from Laura's Bakery, it's faul proof and they cookies don't 'bleed' in the oven. To make the cookies birthday worthy I wanted to decorate them with icing. Laura's Bakery has a great recipe for this too. I was surprised how much powdered sugar went into it! It really took me some time to get it right, but I love the result. Decorating cookies is time consuming, but worth it. If you want to give it a go, practice makes perfect. My best friend was a simple toothpick, to correct my mistakes. I put the cookies against the side of the cake, and made some chocolate 'footprints' that I could put on top.
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Funny thing was... she only ate the cookies, and left the cake for the guests :-P