The four year old birthday boy said he wanted a dinosaur cake - didn't matter what kind. So I did some research and came up with a plan for a stegosaurus. He went through some lizard-like stages until I added the spikes. They were actually the hardest part. I was trying to make it more complicated than it needed to be. First I melted down chocolate and piped it onto wax paper in spike shapes. After they dried I inserted them into the dinosaur's back. That worked great... for about five minutes. Then they started to droop and it looked like a whale in captivity! God bless my husband - he said just use hershey bars. That worked perfectly! Sometimes simple is best.
