Make a Smoking Volcano Cake - Dinosaur / Hawaiian Party - A Cupcake Addiction How To Tutorial

Learn how to make this easy and super cool smoking volcano cake - perfect for Hawaiian Luau themed parties and Dinosaur events! Yet another awesome idea for how you can use your giant cupcake mold! ---SUBSCRIBE to MyCupcakeAddiction for more FREE Tutorials-----

You can also carve this cake using 2 x 6" round x 3" high cakes. This cake serves about 12 people.

Tools&Equipment:
Cake Board (I used a 9" square)
Plastic toy dinosaurs&trees (I got them from the toy section of Kmart in Australia - $15 for 200 pieces!)
Wire rack / cooling rack
Baking Tray
Bread knife
Serrated edge knife
Butter knife
Circle cutter (I used a 2.5")
Scissors
2 x Zip lock bags
For smoking effect:
Shot glass or small container (plastic or glass, it doesn't matter)
Medicine dropper
Dried ice pellets (check online for your nearest supplier - mine were $8 for a whole kilo!)

Ingredients:
Giant Cupcake, baked as per our tutorials below (I used a chocolate mud cake recipe for mine)
Dark chocolate ganache (recipe below
White chocolate ganache (recipe below) - Half coloured red, half coloured orange. You can use liquid, gel or paste colours for this.

Ganache Recipes:
White Ganache: 600g white chocolate + 200ml whipping cream
Dark Ganache: 400g dark chocolate + 200ml whipping cream

Combine cream and chocolate - microwave for 1 minute at a time until all ingredients are melted - about 3-4 minutes total. You can also use a saucepan to heat the cream till it boils, then remove from heat and pour chocolate into the saucepan, stirring till its completely melted.

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