Dragon Cake (3 Dimensional - made using a football shaped pan)

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Dragon Cake

An Oh So Darn Cute
3-Dimensional

Dragon Cake

(made using a football
shaped cake pan)

Dragon Pattern Links
PDF Files
Dragon Tail 1
Dragon Tail 2
Dragon Tail 3
Dragon Arms
Dragon Legs
Dragon Head
Dragon Spikes

Cake Decorating Skill Level - Professional

To make this cake, it requires:

Football Pan
Re-usable to create footballs and other themed cakes

http://thepartyworks.com/product_info.php/products_id/991

6-Inch Lollipop Sticks

http://thepartyworks.com/product_info.php/products_id/1510

Dragon Patterns
(head, back leg, front leg, wing, arm, spikes, tail)
(shown at end of this page)

Professional Icing Coloring Pastes
(a little goes a long way, does NOT water down your frosting)

Lemon Yellow
Golden Yellow
Leaf Green
Kelly Green
Black
Violet
Rose

In advance, roll out cookie dough and use patterns to cut 4 front legs, 3 large spikes, 2 each: back legs, heads, tails, wings and 1 arm. Tint remaining dough violet, roll out and cut 11 small spikes and 4 each: large and medium spikes. Sprinkle spikes with lavender sugar. Bake and cool all cookies.

Bake and cool cake; position on cake board. For a 3-D effect on cake, sandwich duplicate front leg, back leg, head and tail cookie pieces with icing; position on cake.

Ice eyes, nose and mouth smooth with spatula. Pipe lines on chest and belly with tip 45. Randomly pipe tip 16 dark green star spots on dragon; cover remainder of dragon with tip 16 light green stars. Use tip 16 to overpipe stars on muzzle, back legs and eyebrows. Cover both wings with tip 16 stars. Prop up front wing with 3 plain large spike cookies, securing with icing. Position arm and cover with tip 16 stars. Position spikes on cake.

Cake serves 12; cookies each serves 1

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