Monday 7 May 2012

Green Dragon Birthday Cake

Green Dragon Cake

My son has just turned six, and decided that he wanted a dragon cake. I have made him one before, which had quite a few mishaps before if finally made it to the party, but I thought, hey, I'll give it another go.
 The cake was a lovely moist chocolate fudge cake, sliced and filled with chocolate buttercream, carved into shape, and then crumb coated with the buttercream before adding the fondant icing.



This is the cake after carving and, I am just moulding the fondant on. I found moulding the fondant around the shape of the cake a little challenging, but after smoothing it with my hand for a while, which warms the fondant for easier covering I was happy with the result.

 I coloured white fondant with dark green and yellow paste colourings to get the acid colour green I was after. Paste colourings are much easier to work with than liquid and as they are very concentrated you only require a small amount to get a good solid colour. Liquid colouring tends to make fondant very soft, so if you need a strong colour for your project, I would always recommend gel paste food colourings.


After I was happy with the shape, and had cut the excess fondant off, I started to add the details. I never really had a clear picture in my head of how I wanted the dragon to look, so it was very much a trial and error process until I decided what I liked.


Finished! After all the moulding had been done, I very liberally dusted pearlescent lustre dust all over him to give him a glow. I popped a small indoor sparkler into his mouth which looked  very effective when lit. And most importantly my son loved it.