How To Make a Fire Breathing Dragon Cake

Birthday parties are always more fun with a theme. What child would not enjoy a knight-and- damsel themed birthday party? Purchase accessories to go along with the dragon, and make the cake yourself. With two ordinary 9-inch round cakes, frosting, and a few other easy to find sweets, you can create a very realistic dragon!

Ingredients

• 2 9-inch (23cm) round cakes
• 6 cups of frosting, your choice of color (more or less, to taste)
• 8 chocolate covered graham cracker cookies
• 8 gummies
• 2 Sunkist fruit slices
• 2 Blue Fruit Roll-Ups (flat, square kind)
• 1 Red Fruit Roll-Up (flat, square kind)
• 1 Yellow Fruit Roll-Up (flat, square kind)
• 1 Large 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 coordinated -— the example shows orange candies and yellow icing, but you can do whatever colours will match the plates or napkins you will have at the party.

Step 1  

Cut the rectangular crackers diagonally with a serrated bread knife, as shown, so that you have two triangular pieces out of each one. You may have to trim the crackers to make them symmetrical.

Step 2  

Slice all of the Fruit Gems in half.

Step 3  

Slice one of the 9-inch round cakes in half.

Step 4  

Spread frosting on one half of the cake and place the other half on top.

Step 5  

Place it onto a cardboard cake board or aluminum foil covered cardboard.

Step 6  

Cut up the remaining cake according to the diagram as shown at left. When you are done, it should look like the picture at right.

Step 7  

Assemble the cake pieces according to the picture at right, trimming as necessary.

Step 8  

Frost the rest of the dragon, by using a flat icing tip in your full icing bag on those difficult, moist and crumbly parts. Once the crumbs have been covered up, use your spatula to smooth things over. This method keeps those crumbs from showing up in your icing.

Step 9  

Decorate the Dragon! Make the Dragon look like he is scaly,by using a child's marker cap to imprint the design onto the creamy frosting. Arrange the cookies along his back and tail; place Fruit Gems and Slices on his toes and head. Press the Hershey's Kisses (pointy side in) onto the end of his snout, and cut the marshmallow in half and place the chocolate chips on top.

Step 10  

Make a wing with a skewer and a blue fruit roll-up. Trim off a corner of the roll-up to keep them from looking too bulky, and after rolling it up the skewer, trim off the edges bat wing style.

Step 11  

Repeat for other wing. Make sure not to stick these in until right before serving, because they are heavy and will sag over time.

Step 12  

Trim your yellow and red roll-ups for the fire, into curvy, twisty pieces, and position near mouth.

Tips

• This cake can also be covered in Marshmallow Fondant.
• If you use a very thin layer of icing, and then put it in the refrigerator to cool it, you can apply a final layer of icing that will never have any cake crumbs in it.
• The cake will crumble less if you freeze it after it's cooled but before you cut it.
• Note that if it is not cut exactly as on the diagram, you can always cover up the differences or make it look even larger with the frosting.
• If a child is not fond of fruit roll-ups, red, yellow and orange gummy worms can be used instead.
• By varying the decoration, you can even make a dinosaur cake! 
• If your child wants this cake for their party, write the name in frosting on the cake.

Warnings

• Be careful when using a knife.