Want to make your own birthday cake?With two 9-inch round cakes, frosting, and a few other easy-to- find sweets, you can create an intricate dragon cake with or without smoking nostrils.Follow the steps to learn how.
Step 1: If you want to have two triangular pieces out of the rectangular crackers, you have to cut them diagonal with a bread knife.
To make them symmetrical, you may have to trim the crackers.
Step 2: All of the fruit gems should be sliced in half.
Step 3: Take one of the cakes and slice it in half.
Allow enough time for the cakes to cool.
Step 4: Spread the frosting.
Step 5: The cake should be placed on a cardboard cake board.
Step 6: The diagram shows how to cut up the cake.
It should look like the picture at right when you are done.You can enlarge the images by clicking on them.
Step 7: The picture at right shows how to assemble the cake pieces.
If you make a mistake, you can cover it with frosting in the next step.If you want to add nostrils, you must make preparations before you frost the cake.
Step 8: The rest of the dragon needs to be frosted.
You can use a flat icing tip on those parts.To smooth things over, use your spatula after the crumbs have been covered.The method keeps those crumbs out of your icing.
Step 9: The dragon can be decorated.
To make the dragon look bigger, use a child's marker cap to make a design on the frosting.Place fruit gems and slices on his toes and head and arrange cookies along his back and tail.Attach the Hershey's Kisses to the end of his snout and place the chocolate chips on top of the marshmallows.
Step 10: A blue fruit roll-up can be used to make a wing.
After rolling up the skewer, trim off the edges of the roll-up to keep it from looking bulky.
Step 11: For other wing, repeat.
Don't put the wings into the cake until you serve them, they are heavy and will fall over time.
Step 12: Roll-ups should be trimmed for the fire.
Place them near the mouth and cut them into pieces.
Step 13: Take care of the base.
You need a base that raises the cake board an inch or two in order to smoke your dragon's nostrils.The bottom of a pizza box is a good place to cut out the cardboard box.Whatever you use, make sure it will fit your dry ice chamber, which could be a washed-out aspirin container, a small dish with plastic wrap over it, or something else you have on-hand.The base should be covered with aluminum foil or thick paper.
Step 14: Take out a hole.
If you don't know where the dragon's head will be, you'll have a hard time assembling it on the cake board.You can cut a circle but not the size of a nickel under the dragon's nostrils.You can use your first hole as a guide to cut a circle in the base by putting the cake board over it.
Step 15: There are holes in the cake.
You can use a straw to poke holes in the nostril after you've cut up the cake.If you've allowed your cake to cool sufficiently, punching it with the straw should remove small amounts of cake without damaging the surrounding area.Make holes two to three straws wide and be careful that you don't punch too close to the edges.
Step 16: You should trim your straws.
You won't need full length straws to carry the vapor from the dry ice chamber up to the dragon's nostrils.If your base is deep, trim your straws to an appropriate length.
Step 17: The straws should be fed through the nostrils.
Before you go into the dry ice chamber, you should meet up at the hole in the cake board and the base.You don't need the chamber right now.
Step 18: The dry ice chamber needs to be prepared before the party.
You can put a few pieces of dry ice in your container.The opening should be sealed as much as possible.If you use a washed-out pill bottle, put a few cotton balls in the opening after you put the straws in.If you're using a small dish, cover it in plastic wrap or aluminum foil and slice out two small holes for the straws.You want the majority of the vapor to escape through straws.
Step 19: Under the cake, put the dry ice chamber.
Lift the cake, cake board and base up to slide the dry ice chamber underneath and direct the straws.You might have to trim the straws a bit to fit them in the chamber, so keep a pair of scissors on hand.The fire-breathing dragon should have a good time once you've settled the cake over the chamber.