Fossil Cupcakes

To put it mildly, my oldest son is obsessed with dinosaurs. Yes, that is putting it mildly. I don't want to get into it. It's been my life for the past several years. Love him :)

His birthday is in a few days, and so of course he requested a dinosaur cake. (In the past, he has had a toy dino cake, a stegosaurus cake, a standing T-Rex cake, and another toy dinosaur cake.) Now that he is a little older, he decided to ask for a "fossil/paleontology" cake. So, I came up with the following.

I just made some little sugar cookies, just make sure they are smaller than the cupcake.

When they come out of the oven, immediately take a cleaned dino foot (I had a couple hundred to choose from) and press it into the cookie to make the indentation.

Here are all the little fossils.

I just frosted the cupcakes with chocolate frosting, to look like dirt or mud. Then stick the "fossils" into the cupcake. I froze my fossils so they wouldn't break when I put them in the cupcake. Then you just sprinkle them all over with some crushed graham crackers to look like fossils sticking out of sand. And there you go!

My dino-loving boy thinks they are awesome! Phew!