I first saw this idea in a children's Magazine and decided to make it for my younger brother's 5th Knight-themed birthday party. With 2 ordinary 9 inch cakes, frosting, and a few other easy to find candies, you can create a very realistic dragon!
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You will need-
2 9-inch cakes
6 cups of frosting, your choice of colour (more or less, depending on how thick you like your icing.
8 Keebler chocolate covered graham crackers
8 Sunkist fruit gems
2 Sunkist fruit slices
2 Blue Fruit Roll-Ups
1 Red Fruit Roll-Up
1 Yellow Fruit Roll-Up
1 Marshmallow
2 Chocolate Chips
2 Hershey's Kisses
2 Wooden Skewers
You will want all of your fruit gems, slices, and icing to be all colour co-ordinated-I chose orange candies and yellow icing, but you can do what ever colours will match the plates or napkins you will have at the party.
2 9-inch cakes
6 cups of frosting, your choice of colour (more or less, depending on how thick you like your icing.
8 Keebler chocolate covered graham crackers
8 Sunkist fruit gems
2 Sunkist fruit slices
2 Blue Fruit Roll-Ups
1 Red Fruit Roll-Up
1 Yellow Fruit Roll-Up
1 Marshmallow
2 Chocolate Chips
2 Hershey's Kisses
2 Wooden Skewers
You will want all of your fruit gems, slices, and icing to be all colour co-ordinated-I chose orange candies and yellow icing, but you can do what ever colours will match the plates or napkins you will have at the party.
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For the back scales I used thin mint cookies named "Göteborgs Remi mint" (http://www.goteborgskex.se/produktinfo/sota-kex/remi) and just cut the edges in different sizes.
Your cake looks wonderful, I really like it.
Dionne
Victoria Australia
Thanks for great inspiration.
I blogged about it here:
http://pouchbags.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/dragon-themed-birthday-party.html
I used a strawberry filled marshmallow cut in half (from a bag of Hello Kitty marshmallow snacks I got at a Japanese supermarket) and brown m&m's for the nostrils. I think the tail was the hardest part to frost because it was so thin that the slightest pressure on the side to spread the frosting would tend to knock it over. I think it worked out well though...Here is the the result:
As some others have stated, it is wise to freeze the cake rounds overnight before cutting. If you have time, I would re-freeze for a few hours after cutting the shapes, but before frosting, as the cake can/will crumble while frosting it.