The Fantabulous Chronicles

Hello!

I don’t know about you, but my kids LOVE dinosaurs. You know what they also love….cake!  In this activity we were able to combine both those things and keep everyone entertained!

I’m The Chef Too!

So the kiddos were gifted I’m The Chef Too! for Christmas and we absolutely adore it! I am not sponsored by them and have no connection to the company, but boy are these kits fun! There are different subscription options you can choose from and the themes are always a hit with the kids and the food is pretty good too!

We have the 12 month subscription and it is always exciting to receive the blue box in the mail. This month we made a Fudgy Fossil Dig.

The kit includes pretty much everything you need: pre-measured dry ingredients, special items, a recipe card, and an activity card to go along with the theme.  This is lovely for multiple reasons, but mainly because younger kids can do this with little assistance and they are so proud of their creations!

Anywho, we got out our supplies and got to baking up our Dino! We have found that there are sometimes discrepancies in the design and my kids love seeing who can find it first. This one was fairly obvious to my children. The recipe card showed a triceratops fossil and mold, but we had a t-rex mold. The kiddos were able to use the measuring cup to add oil and water to the cake mix with minimal mess. The egg is hit or miss. Today it was a hit! No egg shells or exploding egg everywhere…YAY! Both took turns mixing and they poured the cake batter into our 9×9 pan. While I popped the cake in the oven, the kids melted white chocolate and attempted to fill the Dino mold (I stepped in to help with this, but overall they did great!) 

Now all we had to do was wait….and lick all the extra melted white chocolate off the spatula :p

20 minutes later….

The cake was out of the oven and cooled, the dinosaur (named pretzel) was ready to pop out of the mold, and the dig site sign was colored. We were ready to build a fossil site!

This is where it got a bit crazy.  I had one child banging the bag of “dirt”, one trying to pop out the dinosaur ( imagine a white chocolate mini explosion) and the baby had the worst blowout ever all at the same time! Any other mamas relate? Needless to say everyone got cleaned up and we were ready to assemble when I realized we forgot to make the ganache. We followed the directions and it was super thin.  I put it in the fridge and a few missing cake pieces later checked on it to find it hadn’t thickened at all. No problem, we always keep chocolate chips on hand! We added one handful….two handfuls…the third handful was my limit. Seriously who needs this much chocolate for ganache?  It still wasn’t the thick luscious ganache I was expecting, but we weren’t going to have a cake left to decorate if we didn’t go with it. So pretzel took a nice mud bath before being covered in millennia of cookie dirt and candy rocks. Add in some craft stick fencing and a keep out sign and voila! Dig Site! 

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