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I have had an order for a volcano cake and looking at images,some seem to have real smoke coming out of the top ? anybody got any idea how that is done ? thank you
Liz x

Hi Liz

I made one last year, it was a dinosaur themed cake with a smoking volcano. I used these tutorials for ideas to make the cake:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/volcano-cake-recipe.html
http://allrecipes.com/video/839/how-to-make-a-volcano-cake/detail.aspx

For the smoke I used a piece of dry ice. Unfortunately we can’t get really small amounts in this country. If you have a cocktail bar near you they may be able to give you a small amount. You can buy it online, google ‘dry ice suppliers’. Dry ice can give very nasy burns, if you’ve never used it before have a read up on, carriage, handling and ventilation. Suppliers will normally give instructions. Hope this helps.

thank you very much,very helpful x

I had used this one by Rosanno Pansinno

but was tempted by the one on CakesDecor that didn’t have the dry ice
http://cakesdecor.com/cakes/63347-volcano-cake
but was really cute!
but figured the little boy would like the smoke effect!

Wow that is wonderful thank you so much I will definitely try this
x