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Fire-Breathing Dragon Cake!!

Fire-Breathing Dragon Cake!!
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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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Step 1Supplies

Supplies
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.
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Mar 28, 2009. 9:14 PMEmmaleigh says:
Just finished this tonight. Thanks for your wonderful instructable. This cake was a hit!
Mar 28, 2009. 9:20 PMEmmaleigh says:
Whoops... would probably help if I remembered to upload the photo. :3
May 10, 2009. 12:51 PMsteinikallinn says:
Here is one that matched the (paper) disk plates. We didn't follow the recipe, only the cut-out diagram
May 26, 2009. 10:22 AMlolita79 says:
I am making a dragon cake this week for my son's 4th bday....I love yours! Did you make your own frosting or use store bought?
May 26, 2009. 10:23 AMlolita79 says:
Also...what did you use for the scales on his back...I like how they are different sizes!
May 28, 2009. 12:36 AMsteinikallinn says:
I made my own frosting using powder sugar, warmed up butter and some green food coloring drops.

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.
Jun 1, 2009. 2:20 PMlolita79 says:
Hey, I made the cake. It turned out pretty good. The frosting I use was a little to sticky and made frosting it more difficult. I didn't have time to make my own and used Betty Crocker Whipped cream cheese frosting. I don't recommend using that kind! Other than that the cake was a huge hit at the party! Thanks so much for the idea!
Dec 12, 2009. 1:47 PMpolishangel80 says:

Your cake looks wonderful, I really like it.

Dec 13, 2009. 11:43 AMsandssuz says:
 Just finished making this cake for my daughter's 4th birthday party. She is very pleased with it. I had to shorten the tail to fit it on top of a large sheet cake. 
Jan 6, 2010. 2:16 AMlovehandles says:
I loved this cake it was my only second attempt at making  a novelty cake. I am in Australia. It meant I had to substitute and use different things. I used Tobelorone Bars for my spikes. One problem my spikes kept getting eaten on me while assembling it. Fantastic idea and your instructions were spot on. Thanks from Australia!

Dionne
Victoria Australia
Apr 27, 2010. 11:10 AMyoumybubs says:
I made this for my son's 6th birthday party.  It was a huge success and everyone was shocked that I actually made it myself.  I'm not much of a cook and even less a baker.  But, the instructions were dead on and the end result was amazing.  I highly recommend that after you bake the cakes and let them cool - put them in the freezer.  It made it MUCH easier to cut the pieces and didn't hardly crumble when I went to frost it.  It was awesome!
Jul 2, 2010. 4:59 PMrubberducky47 says:
This is my dragon cake, I made it for my 15th birthday party just because this looked so awesome. I think it turned out pretty well, even after an hour of yelling at a bowl of frosting and getting weird looks from the neighbors. Thanks for the instructable!
Jul 2, 2010. 5:02 PMrubberducky47 says:
Whoops, need the picture. . .
Jul 19, 2010. 4:28 AMTechnologic says:
Sweet. The nest and the eggs are a very nice touch.
Aug 25, 2010. 4:54 PMMedicMrs says:
My Paramedic hubby & I made this together for our son's 9th birthday...OH WOW, we had a BLAST making this...The kids ate our "mistakes" and all turned out AWESOME!!! Was a GREAT hit...We used a German chocolate cake as the base to make the dragon look like he was laying on the ground...
Sep 1, 2010. 11:22 PMkaren7410 says:
wow thats great me and my mum made a green one for a assement :) excellant
Sep 2, 2010. 6:15 PMfergusonj says:
The first picture is of my first try making the dragon birthday cake for my grandson's 3rd birthday. However, I had to transport it 2 1/2 hours away. So I decided to use the lid a Rubbermaid storage tote to put under the bottom of the cake and snapped the bottom of the tote over the top of the cake as the lid. Thought is was pretty ingenious. Problem was that my son-in-law didn't know that the cake was in the tote and turned it right side up when my daughter and I were out. Came home to a broken dragon. But got a new base already frosted from the grocery store and reassembled the newly reconstructed dragon on it. Put the wings on right before the party. Enjoyed making BOTH cakes and got may compliments!
Sep 20, 2010. 8:58 AMLarandalee says:
My son wanted a Dragon cake for his 5 birthday this summer and I was worried because I couldn't find a dragon cake pan anywhere but than I found this and WOW it was easier than a cake pan! Those stinking cake pan you have to make 20 different colored frostings what a pain! This was so much easier than I thought it'd be and everyone thought it was amazing. My son was thrilled! Thank you sooooo much for sharing this!!!!! Now I'm hoping he wants a dragon cake every year! ;)
Nov 18, 2010. 9:51 AMBeckyMeyers says:
Did you pipe the frosting on? What tip did you use if so? If not what was the technique you used? This cake looks great. I am planning to make it for my son's party this Saturday. Any pointers or tips would be helpful!! Thanks
Nov 18, 2010. 1:41 PMLarandalee says:
Yes I piped it on with tip #16, which is a star shaped tip. I didn't do anything special I just covered it and wasn't even very graceful about it which I think may have helped make it look a little rougher like a dragon might be. I couldn't find orange gems so I just used orange slices for the claws and eyebrows. I think I used chocolate chips for the center of the eyes. I throw foil over a cookie sheet and it fit in there a little snug but worked out great. My tail ended up being a bi thin but I just made bigger with lots of frosting. Let me know if you have anymore questions and good luck! It was easier than I thought it was gonna be. =)
Nov 19, 2010. 7:30 AMBeckyMeyers says:
Thank you for the help and encouragement!!
Nov 24, 2010. 7:03 AMBeckyMeyers says:
Well, here is my rendition of the fire breathing dragon! Thank you for all your help. It was a hit!!
Nov 24, 2010. 9:42 AMLarandalee says:
Looks awesome!! Like the green eyes and curvy tail, nice touch. =) I bet your son was thrilled. Glad to help but really we all have kitchenwench to thank!!!! Thank goodness she shared because I would've never thought something this awesome up on my own!
Nov 28, 2010. 10:00 AMsbjewel32 says:
Love this cake! The instructions were clear and it was pretty easy to make! I Needed more cake so I used a 12 in cake pan. I Iced it with reg frosting first but it looked kind of sloppy so I decided to pipe Decorator icing on the entire cake using the star decorator tip. Everyone loved it and more importantly the birthday boy loved it! He kept sneaking over and eating all the keebler grahams off of the spine! LOL
Apr 15, 2012. 2:12 AMtsunami-lightwave says:
This is a great design an relatively easy to make. I love it (and so will my daughter, who seems to have gone crazy for dragons for her 8th birthday)!

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:

Mar 23, 2012. 4:22 AMpumpkinfee says:
This cake was brilliant to make, really pleased with the result, and am equally sure that my son will be delighted. Thank you for the fabulous ideas and the concise instructions
Mar 5, 2012. 1:46 PMRyan60 says:
This was a very easy design to follow. Thank you for positing! Everyone loved this cake, including our 3 year old birthday boy! For a fun touch, we made the dragon out of red velvet cake, to make it more like the dragon's insides. We constructed the dragon on top of a sheet cake we ordered from a grocery store bakery, and just had them frost it to look like green grass.

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.
Mar 4, 2012. 11:11 PMquiet_ame says:
I absolutely fell in love when I saw this design! I decided to make a cake for my autistic brother-in-law's birthday, and this was perfect! He couldn't have been more excited for it when I brought it out!

**I used Girl Scout Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies for the claws and eyebrows instead of the orange candies

This was incredibly easy, and I highly recommend it to any beginner who wants to be a little extra creative!
Feb 22, 2012. 12:03 PMJLS130 says:
we had such a great time making this cake!! my son loved it for his 5th Birthday Dragon-knight party!
Feb 13, 2012. 9:09 AMTorimum says:
Wow what a fabulous instructable this was! My first ever novelty cake and it was easy but looked really impressive. My 3 year old son is obsessed with playing knights and dragons and loved it. Am in the UK so used jelly snakes for the fire and broke up thin slab of chocolate for spikes. Chocolate buttons for eyes and nostrils, of course. Thanks everyone for giving me the confidence to do this - it rocks!
Feb 9, 2012. 10:02 PMschnaars says:
This cake looks so yummy! Can't wait to make it for my son's birthday next week! Thanks for the great Instructable!
Jan 29, 2012. 12:31 AMRyu_Vampiress says:
Thanks, I kinda went without the guidelines but thanks for the idea! :)
Great Instructable!
Jan 27, 2012. 8:20 PMgrupi22 says:
I loved making this cake! Best of all it actually LOOKED good! Made two and both were huge hits.

Thank you!
Jan 27, 2012. 8:14 PMgrupi22 says:
I loved making this cake! Best of all it actually LOOKED good! I ended up making two for my son's 7th birthday and for school. Both were huge hits!
Apr 2, 2011. 7:31 PMjafawa says:
Here is my Golden dragon cake - requested by my nephew for his 5th birthday... thank-you so much for the concept it really helped to get me started :)
Jan 23, 2012. 11:15 PMRyu_Vampiress says:
Wow this looks great! I realize this is a year later but I love it!
Aug 19, 2011. 3:11 PMskle1978 says:
Wow! I love the extra dimension you added for the head and rear legs. Any tips?
Jan 23, 2012. 4:31 AMjbartlett007 says:
Happy Chinese New Year from Ms. Tao :)
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