Skill level: Intermediate
Birthday cakes are one of my favorite things to make and this castle cake with a dragon cake topper is the perfect sort of cake to make for the little king or queen's birthday.
Learn how to make a dragon cake topper with posable wings, isomalt dragon fire, all the little details on the castle, how to hand-letter fancy monograms and more!
1:04:39 Minutes of Instruction
What You Will Learn
- Learn how to create a stylized dragon cake topper with posable wings
- How to make isomalt dragon fire
- Learn how to make hand-lettered castle flags and banners
- How to cover a large double barrel cake
- Liz Marek's simple technique to make realistic stone texture
Tutorial Chapters
- Making the dragon armature
- Building up dragon
- Adding teeth to jaws
- Painting the dragon wings
- Prepping the cakes
- Stacking double barrel
- Making dragon fire
- Adding jaws to dragon head
- Roughing out the dragon head
- Roughing out the body
- Making dragon legs
- Adding texture to dragon
- Adding dragon horns
- Attaching wings to body
- Making dragon spines
- Covering cake board
- Coloring castle brick
- Paneling the double barrel
- Paneling the towers
- Making the front gate
- Adding turrets
- Finishing the front gate
- Making flags
- Airbrushing
- Finishing fire
Sculpted Dragon Castle Cake Tutorial
Fly you fools! I made this cake for my friend's son's birthday and he absolutely loved it. The isomalt fire adds a level of detail that really makes the dragon pop off the cake without too much difficulty. I know many cakers are scared of working with isomalt, but this technique is a good entry point.