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Find the Fossil Cake (Serves 28)

£70

£2.80 per 100g

Ready to collect in 8 days

Order by 8pm to collect as early as 2 May

Serves 28

Product code: 29290987

Sure to be a showstopper at any party, Chocolate sponge generously filled and covered with chocolate buttercream. Finished with green vanilla buttercream grass and a selection of decorations including a white chocolate dinosaur skeleton, caramel chocolate fence panels, marbled sugar paste rocks and a danger sign. This cake comes with a brush and sachet of chocolate soil to pour over and hide the dinosaur skeleton then discover what's hiding underneath. Either pour over the chocolate soil before the party or let the party guests have all the fun doing this first stage too. This cake cannot be personalised.

Product details

Not suitable for nut or peanut allergy sufferers

Ready to eat

Vegetarian

Item details

Dimensions: H-130mm x W-254mm

Diet suitability: Suitable for Vegetarians

Consume Within: 5 days

Hand Finished

The brush you receive may be slightly different to the brush that is pictured

Preparation and serving

Ready to eat

Table Presentable Packaging: No

More Information

Weight: 2500 g

Tableware not included

Delivery, collection & returns

Collection

Collect from store

FREE Collection in store* to your chosen participating UK store. (Exclusions apply)

Choose your collection date at checkout when placing your order. We recommend that the delivery date you select is 24 hours before your special occasion. Food to Order can only be collected in store. Food orders are not able to be delivered to UK or international home addresses.

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Returns

UK returns

If you’d like to speak to us about your food order call us on 0333 014 8222, our lines are open 8am to 7pm every day.

It’s really important that you collect your food order from store on the arranged date. As food orders are perishable, we don’t keep them until the next day, if you don’t collect it on your chosen date we won’t be able to refund you.

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Reviews (60)

4.8

82% Recommended this product

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21 April 2025Kax1959
Verified Purchase

Wonderful cake

Yes, I recommend this

Bought this for my grandson for his 5th birthday party. The cake was absolutely delicious and looked fantastic. The idea of the digging for fossils went down really well. Not only did it taste yummy but it looked good too. It was quite expensive but worth it in my opinion.

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07 April 2025Emma999999
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Good fun and tastes amazing.

Yes, I recommend this

This cake was possibly the best chocolate cake I’ve ever eaten! All of the decorations are different flavoured chocolate and so yummy. My little boy loved finding the dinosaur bones under the chocolate dust and the whole family loved the taste of the cake.

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23 February 2025Margaret Porter
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Fantastic delicious Dinosaur cake

Yes, I recommend this

I bought 2 of these cakes as my grandson was having 30 other 3/4 year olds at his 4th birthday Dinosaur/ Spider-Man themed party. It was one of the most delicious cakes I have tasted. It was moist, fresh not stodgy just perfect. Some shop bought cakes I find the icing just dense and pointless, however every bit of this cake was delish. The little fences reminded me of caramac bars from way back. We filled 30 party bags perfectly with the first cake and took the second home for the family celebrations. Must mention the extra coco dusting and brushes such a lovely idea, my grandson soo enjoyed searching for the Dinosaur, it also helped amuse other party kids. My daughter in law has had lots of feed back from the parents. At the party Everyone asked me who made the cake it’s fantastic (they thought I did as I am a good home baker) I had to say Marks and Spencer’s although I was tempted to say ME 😝

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05 February 2025CorinaB
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Amazing cake

Yes, I recommend this

Ordered this cake for my son 6th Bday party and it was a hit! The cake looks great, tastes amazing and as a bonus, it comes with a little brush to find the fossil hidden underneath the chocolate powder which makes it really fun for the children. Highly recommend for chocolate lovers.

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13 January 2025Rose2014white
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Amazing Delicious Cake

Yes, I recommend this

Beautiful, Enchanting to look at! Amazing.Delicious cake as every decoration can be eaten. My grandson was very thrilled to hold the cake brush eagerly cannot wait to brush off the sand for the Fossils to appear. Enjoyed with Vanilla Ice Cream as side dish!!

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14 December 2024MMM0
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Great quality and design

Yes, I recommend this

Beautiful cake, fresh imaginitive and very tasty. My son loved it and his friends too.

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26 October 2024CapriceH52
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Fantastic cake!

Yes, I recommend this

My son loves dinosaur and fossils so this cake did not disappoint, he loved using the brush to find the hidden dinosaur bones which made it that extra bit exciting. The cake itself was so moist, full of flavour and there was plenty to share out. I would recommend to anyone!

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21 October 2024AEX
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Birthday cake

Yes, I recommend this

Tasted devine and looked fabulous. Well packaged. Would definitely go to get occasion cakes again.

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24 September 2024Joshf
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A simply divine tasting funky cake

Excellent and very attractively decorated birthday cake. The sponge was so light and the excavation on top layer was great fun for my grandchildren.

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17 August 2024Nicolajh
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Great cake.

This cake went down really well. Delicious and chocolatey but also light. My son loved it.

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13 August 2024VSann
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Lovely dinosaur cake and delicious!

Yes, I recommend this

My little toddler loved his dinosaur fossil cake. The chocolate decorations were very good and the cake itself was delicious. We bought a much more expensive cake last year from a bespoke cake shop and it wasn't tasty at all. I am glad we had a look at M&S's cakes, we weren't disappointed.

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28 June 2024Elle11
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Fab cake!

Yes, I recommend this

Bought this for a children’s birthday party and it went down well. Everyone loved the look of it, dusting the powder aside to find the fossils. The children all loved the rocks! The chocolate sponge was light and absolutely delicious. So delicious that my children beseeched me to order another for their Dad’s birthday.

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11 June 2024GranSuz63
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Great tasting cake, lovely idea.

Yes, I recommend this

Bought for a dinosaur mad 5 year old. He loved it and at his party his friends all helped him discover his 'finds'. Lovely tasting chocolate cake, we were very pleeased with it all round.

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05 June 2024mumofboys212
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Unusual cake - big crowd pleaser!

Yes, I recommend this

I bought this cake for my son's 7th birthday and he and his friends loved it. Even the parents were impressed, saying it was the most novel cake they had seen. The cake itself tasted great, moist and chocolatey - would definitely recommend.

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03 June 2024Clive24
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Great fun cake,absolute quality product.

Great fun cake for my son’s 40th birthday. Lovely moist chocolate sponge cake,beautifully decorated.

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15 May 2024EliOak
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So captivating!

Yes, I recommend this

An interactive birthday cake for the budding archaeologist. Comes complete with the tools to carry out the excavations. My 8 year old granddaughter absolutely loved it. The cake was moist and had lots of edible features. Well worth the money.

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08 May 202445Billie123
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Fantastic!

Yes, I recommend this

Brilliant design, lot of fun. Fossils even inside the cake which was a nice surprise!

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30 March 2024Qqq
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Fossil cake

Absolutely amazing , stunning cake , my little boy loved it

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05 February 2024Chris202009
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Brilliant birthday cake

Yes, I recommend this

My son loves this cake. Tastes well l. Only thing is it could not provide his name on and it is too expensive compared with previous similar birthday cake ordered in M&S.

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05 February 2024KldSW19
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Fun and delicious chocolate cake

Yes, I recommend this

Delicious cake. Our 9 year old son said it was the best cake ever! I think it was the added fun of finding the dinosaur which gave it an extra sparkle!

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