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Decorating By mommy2owen Updated 5 Jul 2007 , 3:51pm by Cancook

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mommy2owen Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:44pm
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Hello everyone! I'm new to CakeCentral and relatively new to cake decorating. I have become so addicted to this site. icon_biggrin.gif I love the dragon cakes I've seen on here so I decided last week to give it a try. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun at the same time. I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for all of the info I found on here and especially to chyana66 for the dragon tutorial and photos. thumbs_up.gif
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heavenscent Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:47pm
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Great job he looks wonderful

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gmcakes Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:48pm
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Wow! Great job...I'm gonna have to check out that tutorial!

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chefcindy Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:49pm
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That is an incredible cake!! Welcome to your new addiction!!!

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bethola Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:50pm
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Great Cake! Keep up the good work and WELCOME!!

Beth in KY

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gramofgwen Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:53pm
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Your dragon looks fantastic! I love the way you colored him icon_biggrin.gif

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EricaT Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:53pm
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very nice!

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gakali Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:54pm
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New to decorating?! Your dragon cake is amazing!! I can't even imagine what your cakes will look like when you've been decorating for years and years.....! icon_biggrin.gif

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karateka Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:56pm
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That's a fabulous cake, and I love how he's presented on a piece of glass. Great idea.

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Cancook Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 2:57pm
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I was just looking at that cake! I looks REALLY GOOD! Can someone send me the dragon tutorial and photos as well?
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Thank you....oh by the way...I am also addicted to this site! I feel so blessed to have some many 'giving' people here, givers of their time, kindness and knowlegde!
Thank you, thank you and THANK YOU!

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cake-angel Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 3:02pm
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That is a fabulous looking cake!! You deserve a big pat on the back for that work. Excellent job.

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gmcakes Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 3:03pm
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I was just checking here on CC and can't seem to find the Dragon Tutorial.

Is there a link you/someone can share or post here?

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mommy2owen Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 3:30pm
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Thanks for all the nice comments. I really appreciate it. icon_biggrin.gif I'm not sure how to post the instructions, other than to copy and paste so here are the instructions I was referring to. They were posted by chyanna66:

Hi all....I have had SO many requests for instructions on how I did my dragon cake that I thought it might just be easier to post them here!

I hope they are useful to someone...I'm just sorry I didn't take more pics during the process. Who'd a thought it would be so popular?!

If you decide to go with this and need clarification on anything, please feel free to ask here or PM.

Have fun!
And thanks for all the wonderful comments you have left on my pics!


Dragon Cake Instructions

Take a 12 in (x 2in high) round cake and, looking down on it, carve the basic shape of the dragon's body close to one edge of the cake and curving around, starting at the neck and down to about half of the tail, not including the legs. You end up with what looks like a REALLY fat snake shape. This should use up a little more than about half of the round with scraps and a larger chunk leftover. With the larger chunk, carve a smaller layer to place on the dragon's "back" just to give it some height, and then round out the body part. Then I used the scraps that were left to add the legs and an extension onto the tail. The head was carved from a separate 10 in cake I had ready "just in case". I just cut a wedge out of the extra cake and carved it as if the point of the wedge were the "snout" of the dragon. Once I had all the pieces ready, I put them together and crumbcoated the whole thing.

Then I used MMF coloured with navy blue and black (left a little marbly)and cut "petal" shapes out using the rose petal cutters and each one was placed individually until the dragon was covered. Remember to place the scales overlapping with the point towards the headI started at the tail and worked my way up the body. The teeth, nails, spikes and wings were all done out of fondant, but if I did another, I'd definately use gumpaste for the wings as they were pretty fragile and didn't get quite hard enough. When that was all done I just drybrushed a bit of silver and blue Luster Dust on it and covered the cake board with the grass tip.

This is the dragon at the crumbcoat stage:

http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....&pid=87952

This is the dragon completed:

http://www.cakecentral.com/mod.....&pid=87674

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mommy2owen Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 3:32pm
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I also meant to add that I did the head and the end of the tail out of RKT

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hsmomma Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 6:36pm
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Totally cool!!!

I've been trying to convince my son to let me do one for his birthday. He's stuck on a teddy bear cake. icon_cry.gif

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ShirleyW Posted 4 Jul 2007 , 7:20pm
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I have a friend with a pet Iguana who would just love this cake. You did such an excellent job!

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mommy2owen Posted 5 Jul 2007 , 3:47am
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Thanks Shirley. A friend of mine also has an iguana and she said I just had to do a cake like this for her birthday icon_lol.gif

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Cancook Posted 5 Jul 2007 , 3:51pm
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Have I mentioned that you guys are just....just...WONDERFUL?? I feel blessed!

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