Coolest Red Dragon Cake

I made this red dragon cake for my son’s fourth birthday. It is a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, and tasted better than it looked.

The cake is made out of two round 9 inch cakes, and is cut in half for the body and in shapes for the legs and head. This cake was made with a rice crispy tail (flavored with cocoa power), gum paste wings and spikes, candy toes and fondant eyebrows and nose.

The same fondant is covering the frosting for the finished product, and the frosting is colored for the eyes and smaller spikes. The hardest part was shaping the wings; they dried very quickly and looked crusty. The cake was airbrushed with the last red color, using a can of airbrush coloring from the craft store. Another thing we did was wrap aluminum foil around butter knives giving the kids the opportunity to “slay” the dragon themselves.

The eyes can be adapted for people who feel this cake is scary to be more cartoonish or even using marshmallows like many other dragon cakes. Some of the process photos can be seen here:

http://ashprojects.blogspot.com/2008/07/dragon-cake-finished.html


2 thoughts on “Coolest Red Dragon Cake”

  1. That is just what I was looking for! My daughter is crazy about dragons. This is the most groovy cake i have seen. Great work. Thanks for the inspiration.

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