I am planning on making a sculpted dragon shaped cake for my husband to be's wedding. I read through the forums for the last hour before I posted I read about how to sculpt but I am not sure if I should attempt this myself. I can cook a little and I can bake a cake= but I am not sure about all the fancy stuff. Is there any tips you can give me? Anyone have experience with dragons?
Aine

No dragon experience here....but wanted to say hi and welcome *waves back*....... I'm sure that the dragon people will come out of the woodwark to help you!

Welcome to our addiction, Aine If you follow the link there are a whole bunch of dragon pictures in the gallery, if no one replies to your question, you could always PM one of them for help!

HTH

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=thumbnails&meta=search&type=full&search=dragon

If I can't do it, I might have to look into local folk here to see if someone can make one if I supply some of the stuff for it. I am a bride on a budget so I wanna find a way to keep cakes from costing more then my gown.
Aine

Click on this link:

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=search&search=dragon&cat=0&pos=31&search=dragon

and under the "Picture info" is the person's name that did it (her name is swipernoswiping) click on her name and it will take you to a page where you can PM her. Hope I helped!

And congrats and good luck on the upcoming wedding!!

Gail

I am getting hungry for cake looking at all these cakes. I did a search for dragon and saw alot of neet ones then I hit you link and saw even more! Wow I have never seen so many. I kinda feel like this is beyond my abilities but I am going to try. Just wish I could do this without him seeing the cake (we live together so I KNOW he'd see me fiddling with it) I did see a few I coild attempt. My question now is the wedding will have around 50 guests as a groom cake do I need to make it large or just enough for him and a few others? We will have a wedding cake big enough for everyone but I don't know what the standard size of a groom cake should be. I still have yet to find a reasonable price for a wedding cake, but I seen MANY nice ideas on this site.
Aine

Here is a tutorial on making a dragon cake, maybe it will help you

http://www.webmall1.com/Sweetdreams/dragoncake.htm

Here is another one, the first site is the picture of it and the second site is the instructions.

http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.proicer/cakepict/dragon1.jpg

http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.proicer/cakepict/dragon2.jpg

Where the above one used marshmallows, I would probably use cupcakes, and little bits of cake.

Hope this helps, good luck and congratulations on your upcoming wedding !!!

Hi!
Recently I made the "Sleepy Dragon" from Debbie Browns Book "Enchanted Cakes for Children" and it wasn`t very hard to do. I don´t have the picture of my dragon right here but I found the original www.debbiebrownscakes.co.uk/enchanted_cakes/pages/sleepy%20dragon_jpg_jpg.htm
Only the cave is cake - the instructions say to make the body of the dragon ou of a piece of cake but I found it much easier to model it from MMF only. To feed more people you could easily sit the whole thing on a sheet cake.
I will post a picture, when I´m at home again (and found it )

I like the sleepy cake I could maybe make a little tux for the dragon out of icing hehe. I will look at each cake and see which one sounds easiest and try it a few times before the big day. Another question though is can I use ANY type cake batter? His favorite is yellow cake and I'd like to try to make it from a yellow cake. I usually use cake mixes due to the last time I made one from scratch it was horrible. I was so proud of that cake too but when he took a bite of it he ran to the sink and started chugging water. I think that a brick had more moisture then that thing.
But I will give it a try I got 3 kids that would eat up the trial versions if they taste good.
Thank you again.
Aine

Don´t worry about the cake. Probably you overbaked it or (the best excuse ever) "it wasn´t a good recipe". I made the batter suggested in the book and somehow it tasted not very good. I baked one day ahead and realized it too late to make a new one. My solution for this problem: alcohol I mixed apricot jam an lots an lots of brandy and put it on the cake. It was my fathers birthday cake for his coworkers. Nobody complained about anything.

I can post a yellow cake recipe from scratch that I recently made. It turned out very good.
Luggi

Now here is my yellow cake recipe:

310 g butter
310 g confectioners sugar
6 eggs
300 g flour
2 1/2 ts baking powder
6 ts milk

Grease a 9" springform. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, add the eggs on at a time. Put the mixture into a big bowl and sift the flour and the baking powder on it. Fold it in and add the milk.
Fill batter into the springform and bake it at 160°C or 325°F for 1 h 35 min.

I´ve uploaded my Sleepy dragon at the gallery.

Thank you for the recipe! How much does that make and feed? I still don't know what size a groom cake needs to be, so I don't know how much cake I have to whip out.
I love your sleepy dragon alot more then the original!!! He's super cute and definatly a possibility for me to make.
Aine

The recipe is for a 9" springform but you can double it easily. I haven´t any experience with groom cakes but as everytime CC has the answer:
www.cakecentral.com/article14-Cake-Baking-Cutting--Serving-Guide---2-in-Deep-Pans.html
www.cakecentral.com/article15-Cake-Baking-Cutting--Serving-Guide---3-in-Deep-Pans.html

There is one thing to notice: In a springform you bake the whole cake and after cooling it is cut into two layers. You normally use one pan for each layer I think. That´s the difference between Europe and the USA. But if you want to make the sleepy dragon it doesn´t matter anyway because you have to bake the cave. It is made by stacking a bowl cake (1 l = 4 cups) on a round one. To get an idea of the size take a bowl of this size and imagine it to be a little higher.
I made the dragon for my fathers birthday. It was for a little party at his work. I knew that nobody would cut the dragon and so I made mini cakes for everyone. It was much more work than I expected it to be. My suggestion is to place the dragon on a sheet cake.
Later that day I will post the exact cave recipe for you but for experiments about baking use the 9" recipe.
Luggi

Ok, I´m at home now and here´s the adapted recipe (in the book they suggest a madeira cake; I made it and wasn´t very happy with it)

Bakeware: 1l (2 pints/ 4 cups) ovenproof bowl and a 20 cm (8") round tin (half fill bowl with third of mixture, then put rest of mixture into tin)

610 g butter
610 g confectioners sugar
9 eggs
610 g flour
4 ts baking powder
2 1/2 Tbs milk

Preaheat the oven at 160°C (325°F). Grease the bowl and the tin.
Cream sugar and butter until fluffy and white, add the eggs one at a time. Put the mixture into a big bowl and sift the flour and the baking powder on top. Fold it in and add the milk.
Fill one third into the bowl, put the rest into the tin and smooth the surface.
Baking time: 70 to 90 minutes for the bowl and 45 to 60 minutes for round cake. If a wooden stick comes out clean the cake is done.
Let it cool for 5 minutes in the pans.

For making the cave trim the crust from each cake and slice the tops flat where each has risen. Put the bowl cake on top of the round cake and trim the sides so that they slope down to the base. Cut out a wedge for the cave opening. Sandwich the layers together with buttercream.

In the book they make the body of the dragon with the wedge cut out before. It didn´t work for me.

You also need 1,85kg (3lb 11oz) sugarpaste (fondant) and
325g (11oz / 1 1/3 cup) buttercream
and of course food colouring pastes, dusting powder (the coins are made out of grey fondant covered in golden luster dust)

Ok, that posting is long enough!